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October 8, 2013
Winding Down To A Still Point
This is my first experience being with someone who is dying slowly. I’ve lost loved ones suddenly, without any chance to say goodbye. I’ve visited and taken care of friends and family during a terminal illness, but not for this length of time or this close to the end. Hospice has provided not only printed information of what to expect, but a variety of support personnel who function as educators as well as helpers. I was reasonably well prepared for the physical changes in my dying friend, bu...
October 7, 2013
Treacherous Creativity
BVC release 10/8/13
BVC is releasing my original novel, Notorious Atherton, today, in print and e-book. It’s the third book in a series that originated with a major New York publisher.
What you won’t see on release day is the behind the scenes trials and tribulations that crammed my creative process through the grinder of a narrow business world and turned it into a book.
I like to think I have a mind for business since I was once a CPA. It’s always been relatively easy for me to choose my more...
BVC Announces Notorious Atherton by Patricia Rice
Notorious Atherton
The Rebellious Sons, Vol. III
byPatricia Rice
The Pirate and the Princess
Nora Adams is a schoolteacher and a poor seaman’s widow–until the day she inherits a fortune and is sent to London to deliver a mysterious message to a foreign princess—who looks surprisingly like Nora. Once Princess Elena receives Nora’s missive, she steals Nora’s identity and vanishes. Left to fend for herself in ill-fitting royal shoes, Nora determinedly sets out in search of the royal escapee.
Nick Ath...
BVC Announces The Genuine Article
A Prequel to Regency Nobles
by Patricia Rice
Clever and determined, Lady Marian Lawrence arrived in London to snare a rich husband in hopes of saving her family from ruin—not an easy task given her biting wit and lack of beauty. Hiding her true self, she almost wins the hand of the wealthy, amiable Lord Darley—until Darley’s best friend blocks their path to the altar.
A man who has vowed never to marry, Reginald Montague is as determined to prevent a fortune hunter from snarin...
BVC Announces Ardent Forest by Nancy Jane Moore
Nancy Jane Moore
“All the world’s a post-apocalyptic stage.” A re-telling of “As You Like It” set in a balkanized Texas after climate change and bad economic policies have brought about social collapse.
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Ardent Forest at Book View Café Ebookstore
Starting with the Good Stuff
If you’re a regular here, you know I’m a new face in the neighborhood. If you’re new, too, then welcome to Book View Café! I hope you like it here as much as I do. There’s a lot of neat, thoughtful blogging going on here, and a tremendous amount of collective experience and writerly mojo.
That made the whole “first time blog*” thing feel a little intimidating. You know…bite lip, stare at the blank page…ponder the endless possibilities of how to first appear on the BVC blogging scene.
*First tim...
October 6, 2013
Author Interview: Doranna Durgin
Doranna Durgin
Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
In childhood Doranna Durgin was a writerly sort of tomboy. When people suggested she put down her book or notebook and go outside and play, she did indeed go outside—and climbed a tree to quietly continue her reading or writing. Her odyssey into professional writing has produced over 40 novels, in genres such as mystery, SF/F, action-romance, paranormal, and franchise worlds such as Star Trek and Angel. Durgin has also written more than a...
Doggerel for a Cat
Pretty Pard Posing with Posies
Doggerel for a Cat
Ursula K. Le Guin
His paws are white, his ears are black.
When he isn’t around I feel the lack.
His purr is loud, his fur is soft.
He always carries his tail aloft.
His gait is easy, his gaze intense.
He wears a tuxedo to all events.
His toes are prickly, his nose is pink.
I like to watch him sit and think.
His breed is Alley, his name is Pard.
Life without him would be hard.
October 5, 2013
Story Inspiration Sunday
How do you start a story?
Book View Cafe will be doing a blog series on story starts. I figure the way I approach novels is of no use to anyone. I call myself a gestault writer: Generally the entire idea for a novel arrives in my head. The first few chapters are there in pretty good detail, I’ll know some of the middle, and I’ll see at least a couple of the pivotal end scenes. The characters main characters are already there — I’ll create minor ones along the way.
While I start writing the no...
Uses of the Undead: Part One
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters — Goya (1797)
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that those who feel helpless, must be in want of a monster.
Well, maybe not universally, but so it seems to me. When events concatenate in a way too complex for our hunter-gatherer minds, we find it useful to simplify. Animism is one often successful way of doing this: by personifying external entities or events, humans can bring their immense “mind-reading” abilities to bear on otherwise intractable com...
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