Life, Interrupted

Writer Sarah Zettel's novella, "The Persistence of Souls," from the collection THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY, Tales of the Steam Age, Vol. I has been nominated for the 2009 Sidewise Award!

For those of you who have missed it so far (especially those of you interested in all things steampunk -- GOOD steampunk) THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY is an anthology set in a steampunk universe where the inventions of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage changed the world and Mary Shelly's tales of creating life were far more than a ghost story.

THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY is available exclusively as an e-book from Book View Press, the publishing arm of Book View Café, which is the Internet's largest professional authors cooperative. The collection is part of our ongoing drive to bring our work directly to the rapidly growing numbers of online and on screen readers.

Following on the heels of the success of the first volume, Book View Café will be releasing a second volume later this year: THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY VOL. II.


THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY can be purchased from the Book View Café bookstore: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVP-The-Shadow-Conspiracy/ . Want to know more about the Sidewise Awards? Visit the Sidewise website: http://www.uchronia.net/sidewise/about.html.

Steampunk, that is. THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY: Tales from the Age of Steam is the latest release from the authors of Book View Café (http://www.bookviewcafe.com), the Internet’s largest professional author cooperative.

The stories of THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY revolve around the premise that something…else happened on the stormy summer of 1816 at the gathering of poets, far beyond the creation of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN. These tales focus on the dreamers, experimenters and engineers of this alternative timeline who work their mechanical and metaphysical magic both for good...and evil. Edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Laura Anne Gilman, authors include Judith Tarr, Sarah Zettel, Steven Piziks, and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. The collection will be available for the Kindle, Sony eReader, B&N Nook and a wide variety of smartphone reader apps.

To celebrate the launch, BVC will be holding a twitter fic contest from the 15th through the 17th. The subject of the contest is machines and monsters. The first place winner will receive an ebook copy of THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY and a hardcover edition of editor Laura Anne Gilman’s Flesh and Fire. Second place winner will receive an ebook copy of THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY and a hardcover edition of P.R. Frost’s Faery Moon. Details can be found at the BVC twitter fic contest page http://bit.ly/92q4OF.