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Book View Cafe Fabulosity Releases Randy by Anita Mann

Hot. Erotic. Fabulous! We’re proud to launch Book View Cafe Fabulosity, books that explore a woman’s sensuality in more depth than Robert Ballard explored the Titanic. These tales are served up hotter than a Finnish sauna, with more delicious mouth feel and pleasure than a five pound bag of Dove chocolate.

Our first title is Randy, by internet erotic bestseller Anita Mann.

When Wisconsin waste management major Bianca Fuchs is on her way to her first day of work, her borrowed BMW 640i breaks dow...

BVC Releases THE INTERESTING PROFESSIONAL’S FAMILY MEMBER

An evocative tour de force from the critically acclaimed author of Something: A Novel, The Interesting Professional’s Family Member is a compelling meditation upon fundamental human truths. Moving deftly between the highs of triumph to the lows of heart-wrenching tragedy, it weaves a tapestry rich with evocative detail that transcends its inspiration to become a classic for the ages.

Book View Cafe’s New Bestseller Line: A NOVEL: A novel

Soon-to-be New York Times best-selling, award-winning author Mirkwood Jones launches first book with Book View Cafe!

A lyrical, poignant work of art in which cancer-ridden Alice waits for death in the alley where a gang of faceless thugs drags her. During the excruciatingly real, poignantly lyrical and nuanced violence she looks back through her life choices–the alcoholic parents, the abusive teachers, the backstabbing alpha girls in kindergarten–which set her on this grim, meaningless road.

“T...

BVC’s Self Help Line: #1 With a Bullet

Work the internet. Blog. Chase the cyber-papparazzi. There’s a million ways to promote your writing.

Forgetthem all.

Now bestselling author Faux Muldaur (Guerilla Copyeditor; Escaping Publishing’s Dungeon) brings you a can’t-miss, can’t-fail system to getting your work before the public.

Put down the keyboard. Forget about making nice with the press. Like your second grade teacher always said: Bad attention is always better than no attention.

Muldaur’s pull-no-punches topics include:

• Using crime...

How POSSESSION Can Help You LOSE Weight

Brick Crapper M.D’s second book from Book View Café is the revolutionary How POSSESSION Can Help You LOSE Weight. It will be published on May 5th and ARCs will be available through LibraryThing’sEarly Reviewers April batch.

We’re very excited about this book as early trials have shown that this is an even faster way to lose weight than Brick’s award-winning The Noro Diet.

“I lost so much weight I could actually float above my bed!” – Lida Blair

And, like the Noro Diet, it’s almost never fatal.

In...

The Noro Diet by Brick Crapper, M.D.

Book View Café proudly announce that The Colorectal Times bestselling author, Brick Crapper M.D. has joined BVC. Brick is one of leading experts on alternative diets and holds SEVEN doctorates from the Internet’s leading universities. He’s appeared on countless television programs – Oprah, Ellen, Jeremy Kyle, Crimewatch – and his name has become synonymous with innovation and painstaking research.

He’s the author of the groundbreaking diet books:

The Crapper Diet: You Can Never Have Too Many La...

Mapping creative influence

How many of us of a similiar age shared key influences forming our tastes—and for that matter what can be considered key? In the New York Review of Science Fiction, in 1991, editor and genre raconteur Donald Keller investigated this matter briefly, his context the formation of “Fantasy of Manners,” or what was sometimes called (tongue firmly in cheek) “Mannerpunk.”

I no longer have my copy—it got lost several moves ago—but from what I recall, there were influences I would have expected and som...

Lambing 2013 Ends!

A short post this week as I’m working on two major projects which will be announced next week. Watch this space. And look at those lambs…

This was one of the fastest lambings ever – with all four ewes lambing in four days. After the triplets and single of last week, we finished with triplets and twins on the same day. So that’s nine lambs this year – seven ewe lambs and two ram lambs. Naturally, this being a year where we’d had pre-orders for three ram lambs, Fate decided that only two of nine...

Writing in the Digital Age: New Frontiers Are Everywhere

Partnership Needed: Every Author is in Want of a Good Audiobook Narrator

Please welcome Leah Frederick to the blog today. Leah is the narrator for my first released audiobookThe Unintended Bride. [I know, I know, why am I doing them out of order -- it wasn't on purpose, it is just the way things happen. The Fairy Tale Bride is approved and should be live and available in the next week.] This is a truly new frontier. None of my traditionally published books were licensed for audiobook by my pub...

Towards a Taxonomy of Time Travel

By Brenda Clough

I am writing a time travel novel. A very complicated subject, with a considerable literary history! In an effort to organize my unlucky characters’ thinking on it, I began to draft a Taxonomy, illustrated by examplesthat with luck we will all know.Is some major category missing? Can you name other movie or book examples? Let me know!

1. Time travel can change the past

A. Changes appear instantly; old time line is immediately overwritten

(A1) BackTo The Future – Marty feels change...