Life, Interrupted

No sign of NOOK books yet....

Oh, how did I miss this when it first came out in paperback! This is a wonderful SF novel in the tradition I think of as cultural-anthropological SF. It was just re-released on e-book under the author's current writing name, Deborah J. Ross, but it's the same Northlight released in 1995 by Deborah Wheeler. I wanted to give you all a real review, because if you like my Nuala books, I think there's a good chance you'll enjoy Northlight.

If I was to sum this story up in one sentence, I would say that Northlight is a tale about the many forms of love, regret, and second chances.

Recognize that horse? It's one of Judith Tarr's Lipps!

http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Northlight-by-Deborah-J.-Ross

Still not convinced?

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You will not forget the POV characters, or the others who help and hinder them on their quest. And at $2.99 for the e-book over at Book View Cafe, this is a steal. Highly recommended!

http://backlistebooks.com/

A bit like BVC, but for backlist only, looks like -- here's the beta site.

Book View Café today announced it is partnering with Smashwords to distribute its growing ebook catalogue.

“Smashwords is taking a truly dynamic approach to ebooks,” said Book View Café Project Manager Sarah Zettel. “From the beginning, BVC has promised readers the books they want, when they want them. Smashwords’ commitment to delivering multi-format ebooks to a wide variety of major retail outlets and mobile smart phone platforms will help us keep that promise.”

Book View Café will make the majority of their current ebooks available through Smashwords’ bookstore, affiliates, and retail distribution partners. This will include titles by award-winning and bestselling authors such as Sarah Zettel, Sylvia Kelso, Steven Harper, Pati Nagle, and Chris Dolley.

Smashwords currently publishes and distributes over 6,500 original ebooks from 3,000 independent authors and 100 small independent publishers. The service launched in May 2008 with a focus on self-published authors, and then in May 2009 expanded its offerings to support publishers, such as Book View as well. Smashwords distribution relationships with Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Kobo (formerly ShortCovers) will ensure BVC titles are available for online reading to a worldwide audience, across both dedicated ebook reading devices and mobile smart phones.

“We’re pleased to work with Book View Café to help connect their authors with the rapidly expanding audience of ebook readers,” said Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords. “Book View authors join a growing roster of professionally published Smashwords authors who are leveraging the power of ebooks to publish and distribute their out-of-print, reverted rights and unpublished works as ebooks.”

In addition to its authors’ personal offerings, Book View Café will contribute their newly formed Book View Press titles, ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS, an anthology of rare and classic science fiction stories and THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY, an all-new steampunk collection, to the Smashwords catalog. A fantasy anthology, DRAGON LORDS AND WARRIOR WOMEN, and a book on writing and the publishing industry are being planned for release in early 2010, and will be made available through Smashwords.

Book View Café can be found at Smashwords at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Bookviewcafe

On April 26, www.BookVewCafe.com, the newly launched authors’ consortium, will release its ninth downloadable ebook, Vonda N. McIntyre's Dreamsnake. Dreamsnake was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1978. It won the Nebula Award®, the Hugo, the Locus Award, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award. McIntyre is also known for her Starfarers series and five Star Trek novels.

BVC’s presentation of Dreamsnake includes an exclusive afterword. Dreamsnake and its fantasy cast (which the Book View Café blog helped create, with “Casting Dreamsnake”) will soon be featured at the website My Book, the Movie.

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If you have never read DREAMSNAKE, you must! In fact, it's time for me to re-read it, because what I meant to say about the story sounds like an over-excited six year-old trying to explain a plot.

But now, I must attend to a web site before a quick lunch and visit down south to writer CJ Mills AKA 1minnesotagirl. She's been remodeling, and I need to write down numbers while she measures. Maybe I can lure her into a meal at Casa de Luz.