Brewing Fine Fiction

Today Book View Café launches BREWING FINE FICTION, Advice for Writers From the Authors at Book View Café, our newest ebook, edited by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff and Pati Nagle. It contains essays by 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. My contributions are on 1) escaping the slush pile and 2) where you write. But there's really good information here from all these folk.

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/Ways-to-Trash-Your-Writing-Career).

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). BREWING FINE FICTION will be available at Kindle, Smashwords, Kobo, and B&N soon.

Go look. Better still, go buy!

Where the Rubber Meets the Road

I have the first half of the book almost in the can. Which is to say, I probably need to roll Chapters 7 and 8 together, but it's otherwise in good shape through Chapter 10, and almost 50,000 words. Half the book. Tomorrow (aside from heading back to San Francisco) I will be starting on Part II. There's a book in them thar hills.