Is This Story Too Big…Or Is The Book Too Small?
Recently, I read two novels that left me chewing over the issue of story size. The two novels were Love On The Run by Katharine Kerr and A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Both were absorbing,...
View ArticleBVC Announces Night Calls by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Night Calls Katharine Eliska Kimbriel “When you have the Gift, your life is not your own.” I was born to a family that harnessed the winds and could read futures in fire and water. Yet my mother kept...
View ArticleBVC Announces Ghost Point by James A. Hetley
Ghost Point A book in the Stonefort Stories series by James A. Hetley Eight years ago, Dennis Carlsson returned from Vietnam with a chest full of medals, a head full of nightmares, and a plastic foot....
View ArticleVisiting Lucinda’s Pawnshop
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...
View ArticleLet the Good Times (and Reviews) Roll
Okay, I’m going to take my blog spot today to crow just a bit about early responses to my Bird Street Books collaboration, Devil’s Daughter: Lucinda’s Pawnshop, Book One. (With Hope Schenk-de Michele...
View ArticleBVC Announces The Queen and The Tower, by Shannon Page
The Queen and The Tower The Nightcraft Quartet: Book 1 by Shannon Page Calendula Isadora (Callie) is an uncommonly powerful witch with a mind for science. But her independent ways run afoul of her San...
View ArticleOf Witches and Toe Shoes
I continue to ponder inequality. Or perhaps it’s more than that, an endless history of things unchallenged or questioned. First, witches. My erstwhile significant other asked me the question: “Why are...
View ArticleMagical Data
Looking back on all the blather I’ve produced in this blog space over the past year, I realize I am compiling a “CliffNotes” version of novel research. It occurs to me that I should cite my...
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