The latest issue of the Book View Cafe Newsletter just hit the inboxes all the way from chilly Australia, where the Winter Solstice is fast approaching. Our dragon is hiding from the cold and reading some of this month’s specials … Continue reading
Ink Dance: Essays on the Writing Life A cup of inspiration, a dash of understanding, a bouquet of wisdom for writers new and old. From the desk of writer and editor Deborah J. Ross comes a collection of warm, insightful … Continue reading
At first I thought the current fashion of dark, gritty fantasy – fantasy noir – is just that, a recent shift in popularity, like the explosion of angsty teenage vampire stories. If we take the long view, it’s an established … Continue reading
Because of the great response of our fantastic readers to the BVC Book Blast, the sale has been extended through Sunday, March 24. Every book in the bookstore remains 20 percent off. You don’t have to do anything to get the … Continue reading
As the latest newsletter reports, we at Book View Cafe are having a Boxing Day Sale from December 26 through January 1. Everything in the store is 25 percent off. The newsletter also notes that Flit, Phyllis Irene Radford’s dragon, … Continue reading
Some years back, I wrote a story in aphorisms called “Thirty-One Rules for Fulfilling Your Destiny.” (It’s available free at Curious Fictions and is in my BVC collection Conscientious Inconsistencies.) Rule 8 reads: “The male way of warriorship has been … Continue reading
The latest Book View Cafe newsletter has just hit the inboxes. In it, our Phyllis Irene Radford tells us she is celebrating the anniversary of her first book, The Glass Dragon, by releasing Confessions of a Ballroom Diva (written as … Continue reading
The subject of my current project is social fantasy. It’s not a nice fantasy, but it will have, if not a happy, a satisfying ending. I’m thinking of publishing it with Book View Cafe, however, it might be too black. … Continue reading
DANCING WITH WORDS People who put together program books for writer’s conventions, or the “About the Authors” sections of anthologies, or reporters conducting an interview, often ask me “Tell us who you are in 150 words.” My first reaction is … Continue reading
Suppose your new bed was possessed by a demon who had to satisfy you every night. Would you sell the bed? keep it for life? or try to free the demon?
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