Founding member of BVC, Phyllis Irene Radford, writes for other publishers under a variety of pen names. Here’s the cover for her next epic from DAW Books, coming January 22, 2022, a different take on the Robin Hood mythology. “Outcasts … Continue reading
Last January, our member from down under, Gillian Pollack, enlightened us with just how devastating the fires in Australia were, not only to the landscape, the animals, and the people, but how hard hit Australian authors were hit because … Continue reading
Nancy Jane Moore has sold her novel For the Good of the Realm to Aqueduct Press. The date of publication is not yet set. The book builds on her story “A Mere Scutcheon,” which was inspired by The Three Musketeers. … Continue reading
BVC’s founding member Phyllis Irene Radford is pleased to announce that a book she edited for B-Cubed Press, FIREDANCER by the late S.A Bolich, is the Kirkus Reviews 12th entry, a starred review, in the top 100 indie books of … Continue reading
DAW Books announced today that WALK THE WILD WITH ME by long time BVC author and founder Phyllis Irene Radford, writing as Rachel Atwood, has made both the Amazon and the Polygon lists of top ten Science Fiction Fantasy books of … Continue reading
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illlustrated Edition won the 2019 Hugo for Best Art Book, a special category created by the Dublin convention. This special book includes everything Ursula K. Le Guin wrote about Earthsea, including all the novels, … Continue reading
BVC member Marie Brennan is putting on another hat! Having written the first volume of an epic fantasy trilogy with fellow author (and longtime friend) Alyc Helms, she is delighted to announce today that they have sold the Rook and … Continue reading
Part 1 is entitled The Name of the Prose, Part 1: Naming Characters and Novels I shall cheerfully post the link for Part 2 when it drops. And if you want to see how I put my advice into action, … Continue reading
I almost missed this fortnight’s blog… for the best reason. I spent the weekend in Sarasota, Florida, watching my younger daughter get her BA in Sociology. It was pretty swell. When your campus fronts on the bay, you hold your … Continue reading
Superheroes! Steampunk! High-stakes adventure! Cool characters fighting implacable enemies for the fate of the world while they’re battling their own demons! If you like any or all of those things in your reading, Archangel: Ascensionhas it all. I was very … Continue reading
