I’m celebrating the February 11 release of the trade paperback edition of THE ANTIQUITIES HUNTER starring the inimitable Gina “Tinkerbell” Miyoko, private eye. In Book View Cafe’s online bookstore, the prequel novelette, “Tinkerbell on Walkabout” is on sale for $1.99 … Continue reading
Talking about writing process, I learned the hard way, can be as tedious to uninvested listeners/readers as droning on about the history of a project, interlarded with character names and places without the listener having any idea who they are … Continue reading
The latest issue of the Book View Cafe newsletter is out in the world and in your email inboxes. This month features five new releases from Laura Anne Gilman, Deborah J. Ross, Irene Radford, and Sherwood Smith (two books!). … Continue reading
The latest Book View Cafe newsletter is now in everyone’s inbox. Since a lot of BVC folks were at WorldCon in Dublin, there are links to some of their adventures. There are also a new release, a new print release, … Continue reading
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
