Freebie from Book View Café’s Rocket Boy & The Geek Girls

Kindle Nation Daily has featured Book View Café’s Rocket Boy & the Geek Girls along with a story from the anthology. Ask Arlen, by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, is available to read for free at the Kindle Nation Daily blogsite.

An anthology of classic and favorite science fiction stories by the BVC authors, never before gathered in a single collection, Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls is the premier title from Book View Press.

The book is available in Amazon’s Kindle store, or in multiple formats in the ebookstore at bookviewcafe.com.

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BookViewCafe.com Welcomes Deborah J. Ross

On Tuesday, November 10, fantasy and science fiction author, Deborah J. Ross, joins the BookviewCafe.com team. Deborah grew up in California and Oregon, growing her hair long, protesting everything and gathering useless academic degrees. As Deborah Wheeler, she wrote two science fiction novels, JAYDIUM and NORTHLIGHT, as well as short stories in ASIMOV'S, F & SF, SISTERS OF THE NIGHT, STAR WARS: TALES FROM JABBA'S PALACE, REALMS OF FANTASY, and almost all of the SWORD & SORCERESS and Darkover anthologies. Her most recent projects -- under her birth name, Ross -- include Darkover novels with the late Marion Zimmer Bradley (the fifth of which, HASTUR LORD, is due out 2/2010), and an original epic-fantasy series, THE SEVEN-PETALED SHIELD. She made her editorial debut in 2008 with LACE AND BLADE. In between writing, she's lived in France, worked as a medical assistant to a cardiologist, revived an elementary school library, studied kung fu, Hebrew and yoga, and is active in the local Quaker community. She makes her home in a redwood forest.

Ross will be launching at Book View Café with “Heart Healer,” first published in 2002 in the anthology, DAW 30th Anniversary Fantasy. In addition, every Tuesday in December, Ross will post excerpts from the new Darkover novel, HASTUR LORD, and blog about writing with Marion Zimmer Bradley at the BVC blog, http:blog.bookviewcafe.com.

Visit Ross’s bookshelf at BookViewCafe.com.

Watch for future offerings from Ross on Tuesdays at http://www.bookviewcafe.com.

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BOOK VIEW CAFÉ LAUNCHES ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS

Book View Café, the Internet's only professional author cooperative, announces the creation of Book View Press. Book View Press will expand the Café authors' mission of bringing the best online fiction to the readers by bringing new work ready-to-read on the most popular ebook devices, including the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader and a variety of cell phones.

This group of award-winning and best-selling authors is launching their new press with its first science fiction anthology: ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS, a collection of rare reprints, hard-to-find favorites and bold new tales by some of SF's finest authors including Vonda N. McIntyre, Katharine Kerr, Judith Tarr, P.R. Frost, Pati Nagle, Amy Sterling Casil, and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.

Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls is available at http://bit.ly/rgr4K for the Kindle version and http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-eBookstore/ for other formats including pdf, mobi, prc, lit, lrf, epub.

To celebrate the launch of Rocket Boy, BVC is holding a TwitterFic contest. For details visit the contest page: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/News/BVC-Twitter-Fic-Contest-8-Celebrating-Book-View

For info contact: media.relations@bookviewcafe.com

"Fasten your seatbelts and brace your tentacles. These all-star tales of epic wonder from the genre's masters will sizzle through your mind like a spaceship on re-entry burn." -- Dave Williams, author of The Burning Sky

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Happy 80th Birthday to Ursula K. Le Guin!

Post your birthday wishes at Book View Cafe's Blog - Ursula is checking in to read them.

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P.G. Nagle Twitter Fic Contest at BookViewCafe.com

To celebrate the paperback release of Red River, fourth book in the Far Western Civil War series by P.G. Nagle, BVC is holding a TwitterFic contest October 6-8.

The Theme of the contest is: "Soldiers and Steamboats."

First place winner will get an autographed copy of Red River and autographed copy of Galveston (FWCW series book 3).
Second Place will receive an autographed copy of Red River. Pati Nagle, Sarah Zettel and Jennifer Stevenson will judge the contest.

The contest opens at 9:00 a.m. EST Tuesday October 6 and closes 9:00 p.m. EST Thursday October 8, 2009.

Rules are online at http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-Twitter-Fic-Contest-7-Celebrating-PG-Nagle

The contest will be held at BVC's Twitter site: http://twitter.com/bookviewcafe/

Visit P.G. Nagle at BVC: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Pati-Nagle/

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Seanan McGuire Twitter Fic Contest at BookViewCafe.com
originally posted: September 14, 2009

To celebrate the release of Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire, BVC is holding a twitter fic contest September 15-17. BVC members Seanan McGuire, Pati Nagle, and Phyllis Irene Radford will be judging the contest. Two winners will receive autographed copies of Rosemary and Rue.

The Theme of the contest is: "Fairy Tale Noir."

Rules are online at http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-Twitter-Fic-Contest-6-Celebrating-Seanan-McGuire

The contest will be held at BVC's Twitter site: http://twitter.com/bookviewcafe/

Visit Seanan McGuire’s bookshelf at BVC: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Seanan-McGuire/

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C.F. Bentley Twitter Fic Contest at BookViewCafe.com
originally posted: August 10, 2009

To celebrate the release of C.F. Bentley’s book Enigma, BookViewCafe.com (BVC) will be holding its fourth twitter fic contest August 11 through 13. BVC members Phyllis Irene Radford, Jennifer Stevenson, and Sarah Zettel will be judging the contest. First place will win a signed hardcover copy of Enigma. Second place winner will receive a paperback copy of Harmony, the first book in the series.

The theme of the contest is: "Spiders and Space Stations."

Rules are online at http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-Twitter-Fic-Contest-4-Enigma

The contest will be held at BVC's Twitter site: http://twitter.com/bookviewcafe/

BVC's wildly successful first three twitter fic contests were held earlier this year in celebration of member Pati Nagle's release of “The Betrayal,” P.R. Frost’s release of “Faery Moon,” and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhof’s release of “Laldasa: Beloved Slave.”

Enigma continues the story of Jake and Sissy seeking a peaceful way to bring Harmony back into galactic society.

C.F. Bentley is the pen name of BVC member Phyllis Irene Radford. Visit Radford’s bookshelf at: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Phyllis-Irene-Radford/

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Pati Nagle writes fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, mystery, and anything else that takes her fancy. Her work has appeared in professional publications since 1994.
http://patinagle.com