Tremontaine: When Collaboration Really Works
I find all kinds of collaborations interesting, from the centuries-long shared-world collaboration of Arthuriana among Europeans to the amazing Mahabharata of India. I think the greatest...
View ArticleAll the sluts: the hinky side of women’s fiction
I’m so excited about this series launch, I’m squeaking like a mouse. Also bouncing. Coed Demon Sluts was conceived at the point when I realized that my last series, Slacker Demons, was leaving the...
View ArticleAll the sluts at once
Sounds like some guy’s dream come true, doesn’t it? Well, it’s also mine. I’ve spent three years working on this series, and today the omnibus edition launches at Book View Café: All the Coed Demon...
View ArticleBVC Announces Makeover Queen by Jennifer Stevenson
Makeover Queen a Liars in Love romantic comedy by Jennifer Stevenson When lovers hide from themselves, how can they find each other? Debby is a happy-go-lucky slob hiding her inner hottie under a...
View ArticleMakeover Queen: When hairdressers go bad
I actually had a hairdresser once who really was pretending to be gay to avoid his ex-wife. While I didn’t find his act particularly convincing, I did wonder what he had going on that his ex couldn’t...
View ArticleAutumn Reading: Short Book Reviews
Witchmark, by C. L. Polk (Tor) is one of the most unusual and compelling love stories I’ve read this year. The setting, very much like England in the throes of national PTSD following the First World...
View ArticleBVC author, YA and Diversity in the GUARDIAN
Book View Cafe author Sherwood Smith co-wrote with PTSD and trauma therapist Rachel Manija Brown Stranger, book one of The Change series, a diversity-friendly dystopian adventure. Today, the...
View ArticleArthurian Cycle with a New Twist
The story of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table is one of the longest shared world stories in Western history. From what I can tell, there were various mentions of Arthur in poems, especially...
View ArticleBVC announces Only A Paper Moon by Jennifer Stevenson
Only a Paper Moon by Jennifer Stevenson Seven corny short stories with happy endings Spy Beanie – Okay, fifty-one years is a looong foreplay. I Remember You – Memory makes our relationships meaningful...
View ArticleProofreading The Catch Trap
Book View Café is a publishing cooperative, both in the business and the friendly sense of the word. We offer one another all the services a traditional publisher would normally provide, everything...
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