Brenda’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2010)

Brenda’s comments from the Book View Cafe group.

It was a great story. And I wrote a story in which I fixed the difficulty in LITTLE WOMEN. Should Laurie have switched from Jo to Amy? What's the story with that?

The highly-praised shared-world anthology has a third volume out! The Civil War combined with the tech to transfer souls into machines has a powerful impact upon society. Abraham Lincoln frees the mechano-Americans...

http://bookviewcafe.com/bookstore/boo...

BVC's own Linda Nagata is a finalist for this year's Nebula Award, with her novel The Red: First Light!

And! The books are starting to appear! Here is my latest BVC novel, now an audio book!
http://www.audible.com/search/ref=a_s...

He is a pearl beyond price.

Book View Cafe has cut a deal with Audible.com!

http://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2013/08/...

Look for audio editions of BVC work!

Oh dear, oh dear, another must read! My stack is taking over the room.

Book View Café has launched their latest ebook: BREWING FINE FICTION, Advice for Writers From the Authors at Book View Café (ISBN 978-0-9828440-3-8). BVC’s members include international bestselling authors and winners of the National Book Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and many others. Most have sold multiple novels to major publishers. Many have taught writing at workshops around the world. The knowledge of these professional authors is gathered into one volume, edited by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and Pati Nagle, that will help both new and experienced writers cope with the creative challenges and the nuts-and-bolts business issues of a career in writing fiction.

“Check any bookstore and you'll find a host of titles on writing. Some are good, some not so good. Every author has his or her own strengths and weaknesses. But in BREWING FINE FICTION: Advice For Writers From the Bookview Café, you get a smorgasbord of professional advice and expertise. From the plausibility of fantasy, by Ursula LeGuin, to Deborah Ross's comments on reviews, you'll find every facet of the craft and writing life covered. For the wealth of information, experience, and diversity, all under one cover, you can't beat it.”
--Mary Rosenblum, Compton Crook Award winner

Contributors to Brewing Fine Fiction include: Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Amy Sterling Casil, Brenda W. Clough, Lori Devoti, Chris Dolley, Laura Anne Gilman, Sue Lange, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Nancy Jane Moore, Pati Nagle, Steven Harper Piziks, Irene Radford, Patricia Rice, Madeleine E. Robins, Deborah J. Ross, Sherwood Smith, Jennifer Stevenson, Judith Tarr, Gerald M. Weinberg, and Sarah Zettel.

In celebration of the launch, BVC is giving out free copies of WAYS TO TRASH YOUR WRITING CAREER. This ebook is a collection of humorous stories posted to the Book View Cafe blog by the BVC authors describing the fastest ways to bring your writing career to a screeching halt. The compilation is available free of charge to anyone purchasing a copy of BREWING FINE FICTION through the BVC website. It is also for sale as a stand alone for $.99 (http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php...).

BREWING FINE FICTION is available at the Book View Café website (along with WAYS TO TRASH YOUR WRITING CAREER) for $4.99 in pdf, epub, mobi, prc, lit, and lrf formats (http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php...). BREWING FINE FICTION will be available at Kindle, Smashwords, Kobo, and B&N soon.