Is Mercury In Someone Else's House?

Okay, along with the household sturm und drang that seems to go with having a teenager in the house, today the dog-walker set the alarm off twice and my cousin called to tell me my Aunt Linda had fallen and broken her hip; sadly, because she's over 90 and pretty frail, she's not a good candidate for surgery, which means she's unlikely to heal and survive on her own.

Could we have some puppies and daisies for a while? Please?

Double Your Clough

Today Book View Cafe is happy to announce, not one, but two books by Brenda Clough, in paper and Kindle e-book:



The Crystal Crown (fantasy) by Brenda W. Clough

A Crown With a Mind of its Own...

Liras-ven unexpectedly inherits the Crystal Crown, a war, and a royal bride-to-be he can't speak with. Then he finds out the Crystal Crown can speak, and it can kill him if it decides he shouldn't be king! No wonder he decides to make a run for it....

Foxacre Press
Price $4.99
AISN: B005LDBNSO




Dragon of Mishbil (fantasy) by Brenda W. Clough

Who Dares to Tame the Dragon?


The River Bilcad is called a dragon, for without its complex network of canals, it can destroy the city of Mishbil. Princess Zaryas, youthful viceroy of the city, learns that movements in the earth have rendered the canals useless. Mishbil will die of thirst. Brash young Magus Xerlanthor wants to use muscle and magic to dam the river and refill the canals...and to win Zaryas' heart. Zayras must bet everything, not knowing if her choices will lead to a double triumph-or a double disaster.

AISN: B005MLABEW
ISBN: 9780981848723


About the Author

Brenda W. Clough spent much of her childhood overseas, courtesy of the U.S.
government. She has lived in Laos, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Germany.
She earned a degree in English/Creative Writing at Carnegie Mellon
University in 1977. Her books include THE CRYSTAL CROWN, THE DRAGON OF
MISHBIL, THE REALM BENEATH, THE NAME OF THE SUN, HOW LIKE A GOD,DOORS OF
DEATH AND LIFE, and a children's novel, AN IMPOSSUMBLE SUMMER. Locus
Magazine said of her work "Clough brings myth and science and plain human
existence (complex as all get-out) together for what proves to be a fine
blend, and a very good read, offering physical, psychological, and
metaphysical insights into the human condition, along with the sometimes
delightfully outlandish action that drives the best of pulp fiction." The
New York Times Book Review says, "Ms. Clough has an appealingly cheeky
imagination."