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WWW Wednesday – Nov 5, 2014

WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading.

• What are you currently reading?

Stung, by Pari Noskin. Of courseI would instantly be hooked by the prospect of a psychic grandma and her counter-culture granddaughter, especially as her psychic ability is expressed through contact with insects. Add a mystery element, some very vivid sensory descriptions, interesting characters and before I know it I’m deeply into it.

Kaleidoscope: Diverse YA Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, edited by Alisa...

BVC Eats: Apple-cranberry muffins

the stealth baking fruit

As autumn marches into colder country, we think of baking. Now that I’m on this darned low-carb diet, I think of it all the time. Some days my thoughts yearn toward pies and cookies. Other days, a simple Pop-Tart would be enough to meet my craving. Not that I surrender to craving. But if I did, it would be to these moist, fruity, cinnamon-packed muffins with their sparky bites of cranberry surprise.

This can also be a coffeecake. The extra flour, and the cranberries, al...

BVC Welcomes Pari Noskin

Please join Book View Café in welcoming new member Pari Noskin.

She has garnered two Agatha Award nominations for her mystery series featuring Sasha Solomon. Pari is a New Mexico native, award-winning features writer, founder of Murderati.com and PR pro.

Katharine Eliska Kimbriel interviews Pari today.

Two of Pari’s novels are now available at the BVC ebookstore: The Clovis Incident and Stung.

BVC Eats – Tomato harvest!

We think of autumn as a time to harvest pumpkins, but around here, it’s bonanza time for tomatoes, as well. Our tomatoes don’t get going until midsummer because the night time temperatures are still too low. The plants just sit in the ground and shiver. Long about October, they are in full swing and we’re wondering what we were thinking to have planted so many. A bowl of cherry tomatoes sits on the kitchen counter, ready to grab for snacks, and every dinner is accompanied by a salad that’s mo...

Author Interview: Pari Noskin

Pari Noskin

Interviewed by

Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

Writer Pari Noskin (who is also Pari Noskin Taichert) started out life as an imaginative child with a serious case of Stubborn. Add in hating school, and all this culminated with her skipping classes for two weeks in the fifth grade. Once her transgression was discovered she was shipped off to a private girl’s school as quickly as possible. In her case, the focused attention and small classes were just what she needed to nudge both writing and...

Where’s My Comment?

Over the weekend our host experienced a number of technical problems which resulted in site outages and, eventually, the use of a site backupwhich lost a number of comments to earlier blog posts. If you took part in a conversation and some or all of that conversation has vanished, please know that we’re as unhappy as you are, and that we’re working with our host to make sure this doesn’t happen again.

Apologies to anyone whose comments went missing!

The Treadmill Experiment

As one part of Connery Beagle’s Overcoming Very Bad Luck Journey through this life, he was given steroids through his adolescence. This wasn’t particularly good for his developing tendons and ligaments.

We shifted him to Atopica as soon as it became an option, and then he was getting prednisone on the side as necessary. But when he was 3 ½, after the final attack by yet another dog four times his size and amidst various other trauma, he went into a cortisol crisis with many ramifications and w...

The Inner Child and the Nude Politician

The Inner Child and the Nude Politician

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Last summer a company that makes literary T-shirts asked me for permission to use a quote:

“The creative adult is the child who survived.”

I looked at the sentence and thought, Did I write that sentence? I think I wrote something like it. But I hope not that sentence. “Creative” is not a word I use much since it was taken over by corporationthink. And isn’t any adult a child who survived?

So I googled the sentence. I got lots of hits, an...

Status of the Farm

It’s Tuesday, October 28, and I’m about to go off line for a month or so. I tore the tendon in my right arm and in about three hours a good surgeon is going to reattach it. It will be in a cast for about a month so I don’t know when I’ll be able to type again.

I’m sure this will dismay both of my readers.

Anyway, it’s now past the harvest and well into fall. It seems to me that this is the true yearly cycle. We start planning for the next year around Thanksgiving. We order any new trees or seed...

Story Excerpt Sunday: from ‘The Spirit Arrow’ by Deborah J. Ross

The Spirit Level

from Azkhantian Tales

by Deborah J. Ross

The rising sun, sullen and gray, cast eerie shadows across the Azkhantian badlands. To the north, jagged hills slashed through the haze. An old woman sat on a solitary crag of black granite, gazing down at the valley where the Gelonian Imperials had set up their encampment. She wore a cloak of black wool over her tight-fitting jacket and horseman’s trousers, so that from a distance, she seemed to be part of the rock itself. Her skin was c...