Val Hall: The Even Years Val Hall 1 by Alma Alexander Not Valhalla. Not Odin’s gathering place for gods and immortals. Val Hall, home and last sanctuary for retired Superheroes (Third Class.) Val Hall, raised by the vision and devotion … Continue reading
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Signatures by James A. Hetley $3.99 On Sale! Only 99¢ – Ends Soon! (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-472-7 John Patterson thinks he damn well earned his pension. He survived more than twenty years as a police forensic wizard, tracking down and fighting … Continue reading
Calendula Isadora (Callie) is an uncommonly powerful witch with a mind for science. But her independent ways run afoul of her San Francisco coven house, especially when she creates life in the form of a massive golem. And her unseemly affection for her human boyfriend? Such things are simply not done among respectable witchkind.
Continue readingClaire is barely scraping a living on her friend’s ranch near Tucson, Arizona. She looks after the long-abandoned horse facility, makes occasional attempts to resuscitate her academic career, and pays the bills, more or less, with her skills as an animal communicator. Those skills don’t always let her say the tactful thing to the human with the checkbook. Sometimes she has to tell the truth.
Continue readingDominions Book 2 of The Bladesmith by James A. Burton The Goddess Mel sat in lotus, meditating, callused brown feet tucked up on lean sinewy brown thighs. The goddess of the mountain winds did not focus on the Wheel of … Continue reading
Dominions The Bladesmith, Book 2 by James A. Burton Not all Gods are created equal . . . Some are omniscient. Some omnipotent. Only one can forge a blade that can kill another god. And now that Albert Johansson has … Continue reading
The Soul Thief The Chronicles of Franklin: Book Two by Leah Cutter Franklin sat outside in his backyard, watching the knee-high cornstalks grow. A ghost sat beside him, on the other white-metal garden chair. Franklin didn’t know the ghost’s name—he’d … Continue reading
Ghosts get stuck sometimes. Franklin sees it as his duty to help them along, get them to pass from this earth to the Beyond. But some ghosts start returning. Haunting Franklin. Destroying his crops. Franklin learns he must use an … Continue reading
Ghost Point by James A. Hetley The mortars rained out of the hot ’Nam sky, Crump! Crump! Crump! into the shit-stinking paddy mud. Den Carlsson threw himself flat, scanned the battlefield, and the third round always took the looie as … Continue reading
I’m pausing in my writing rants to promote a non-Book View Cafe book that will be released in July of 2015 by Bird Street Books. The book is Devil’s Daughter which we—the creative team behind said novel—hope will spawn a … Continue reading