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Interview with Vonda N. McIntyre

BVC’s Vonda N. McIntyre was recently interviewed by a student in a seminar on feminist science fiction at the University of Oregon.

The interview, available here, was conducted by Quintin Kreth, who studied Vonda’s life, correspondence, and work as a class project.

The interview includes snippets about Vonda’s relationship with Joanna Russ, who was one of her teachers at Clarion, as well as about her ongoing friendship with Ursula K. Le Guin.

Vonda gives her opinions on a variety of subjects ran...

One of Those ‘Aha’ Moments

I’m a sucker for personality quizzes, especially when I’m goofing off on Facebook. So the other day I did the “Who In Fiction Are You?” quiz that was apparently put up in honor of Scottish Book Week.

It was impossible to answer the questions without first specifying gender, age, and the number of books you read per week. That made me wonder what difference the gender specification made, so I filled it out first as female and then as male while marking everything else the same.

When I marked fem...

Brain Game Pain

A Blue Hound Beagles Blog

(also a Dog Agility Blog Event. Sort of.)

Last week the Dog Agility event went off as scheduled…without me. Life Chaos came to something of a head last week (if one of many), and I regretfully not only didn’t manage the deadline, I didn’t even get started.

But this past weekend, I attended an agility trial that reminded me just how much the mental game matters.

As in, when your mental game is blown away, it changes everything about how you handle the events of a trial.

S...

The Word is Baseball

The title phrase of this post is from one of my three most favorite books, Shoeless Joe by W.P. (William Patrick) Kinsella. It is not the signature line from the book orthe movie it inspired,Field of Dreams.That would be the oft-quoted “If you build it, he will come.”

The scene that proclaims that “the word is baseball” is from the book Shoeless Joe, which is,itself, based on a short story entitled “Shoeless Joe Comes to Iowa.”In the scene, we are seated beside a young man named Ray Kinsella o...

Health Insurance, the Sequel

By Brenda W. Clough

Last month I posted here about writers and their health insurance. And I mentioned the numerous funds that collect money for writers overwhelmed by medical bills. Oregon writer Jim Fiscus administers the Jo Clayton Memorial Medical Fund. He says:

The Clayton Memorial Medical Fund helps professional science fiction,

fantasy, horror, and mystery writers living in the Pacific Northwest

deal with the financial burden of medical emergencies. Even with

insurance, co-pays can quickly...

What Goes Around Comes Around

My birthday is in December, and therefore I was almost always, if not the youngest in my class, very nearly so. When I was little, this was a source of annoyance, occasionally of anguish. There’s nothing a 7 1/2-year-old enjoys more than lording it over a mere 7-year-old (at least, among the 7-year-olds I knew–perhaps you knew a nicer breed of grade-schooler than I did). ”You have to do what I say because I’m older.”

So for a long time I really really wanted to have a July birthday, if not a J...

BVC Announces Forever by Pati Nagle

FOREVER

The Immortal Saga, Book 3

by Pati Nagle

The campus killer is back…

…and this time bright, sensitive Steve Harrison finds the mutilated corpse. When he realizes the cops suspect him of the brutal murders, he calls a friend for support and is drawn into a secret world of magic, wonder, and dread.

A circle of impossibly beautiful men guards the campus against vicious, inhuman hunters. Steve’s education, his love life, even his survival is at stake once he learns what the police don’t know:

The...

Leah Cutter has a short story in Hex in the City

The latest issue of the Fiction River anthology series, Hex in the City includes the short story “Fox and Hound” by BVC’s Leah Cutter.

This issue includes fourteen stories by a diverse group of authors including Kristine Katherine Rusch, Jay Lake, Dean Wesley Smith, and Seanan McGuire.

Cutter’s story is set in modern day Beijing, following the adventures of Gou, a peddle cab owner. In her words:

“I wrote, and threw out, three other beginnings to this story. The process felt as though I was circ...

Author Interview: Jill Zeller

Jill Zeller

Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel

Jill Zeller was determined to become a writer ever since her fifth grade play was a flop (let’s just say that no one was yelling “Author, author!”) Millions of words later, she’s still writing both novels and short stories in a myriad of worlds and genres. Her first release from Book View Cafe, the zombie tale Bijou, is creepy in a way that only a woman writing medical thrillers and horror could dream up.

Firmly planted in Seattle, Washington...

Mirror, Mirror

(c) Lynne Glazer

So I was following a link from a favorite blog, to another blog that happened to be talking about the blogger’s relationship with animals. I’m not linking because these things are so common and so frequent that you can probably cite your own examples.

Plural.

Usually the style is soulful. The subject matter: how the author encounters animals, or recounts a story or myth about them, or ponders their existence and nature, and has Deep And Profound Things To Say About Them.

Except i...