Announcing Book View Cafe

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Nancy Jane Moore

Location: Austin, Texas,

Bio: I'm a writer and intellectual who needs physical movement to thrive; a feminist who doesn't feel defined by my gender; a liberal who prefers working class neighborhoods; an Aikido black belt who thinks paying attention is the most important skill of self defense; and a native Texan who lived in Washington, D.C., for many years.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2008 9:26AM

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Do you find yourself running out of good fiction to read? Book View Cafe is the solution to your problem!

Book View Cafe is a brand new (we're still arranging the furniture) online source for fiction from 21 experienced fiction writers, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, and the author of this blog.

It seems particularly appropriate to announce Book View Cafe on Open Salon, because like Open Salon, it's a new type of publishing. The site is run by the member authors. Here's is the BVC page of answers to FAQs.

Book View Cafe has everything from flash (very short) fiction to novels, and we include many genres, though we're heaviest on science fiction and fantasy. Most of the content is free, but some authors will also be offering expanded work, subscriptions, print versions, and additional content for a fee.

Right now I'll be posting a new free flash fiction every Sunday -- with an occasional longer story thrown in just to keep you on your toes. My first story, "The English Major's Revenge," debuted Sunday, Nov. 16, and my second, "Phone Call Overheard on Subway," goes live today.

We have a companion blog to the site and it will be updated daily, too. My regular blog posting day is Sunday. Here's my first post: my opinions on flash fiction.

Book View Cafe writers are all professionals with lots of print publishing credits. We just want to widen our publishing horizons.

The authors participating in Book View Cafe are:

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Brenda Clough
Katie Daniel
Laura Anne Gilman
Christie Golden
Anne Harris
Sylvia Kelso
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Sue Lange
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rebecca Lickiss
Vonda N. McIntyre
Nancy Jane Moore
Pati Nagle
Darcy Pattison
Irene Radford
Madeleine Robins
Amy Sterling
Jennifer Stevenson
Susan Wright
Sarah Zettel

By the way, if you regularly read my posts on Open Salon, you may have noticed that I seem to jump around among topics, writing about my fiction ventures and my political thoughts. That's why I called this blog "Blending" -- I want to use it to write about the many different things I do. You're likely to see future posts on Aikido and self defense as well as comments on subjects that don't fit in anywhere else.