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Summer solstice

This time of year, my heart is full.  Everything that can bloom is blooming, or has bloomed and fruited already, like mayapple and shooting star and trillium and the flowering trees that line my street.  All the plants are up.  Every rain sees them shooting up another few inches.  If you leave your lawn another [...]

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Book View Café Welcomes New Member Shannon Donnelly

Book View Café is proud to welcome its newest member, multiple award-winning author Shannon Donnelly . Donnelly’s numerous honors include a RITA nomination for Best Regency; the Grand Prize in the “Minute Maid Sensational Romance Writer” contest, judged by Nora Roberts; RWA’s Golden Heart, the Laurel Wreath, the Winter Rose, the Bookseller’s Best, and multiple [...]

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Dezyrah’s Talk Dirty To Me, my new story is now available!

I wrote this story for an RWA critique session.  My chapter does “hot nights” when the authors bring their sex scenes.  I was feeling pretty cocky, because whatever I decided to bring, people always loved my sex scenes, right?  Then I noticed that the fine print said, “BRING TEN PAGES.”  Turned out that all my [...]

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Book View Café Releases POLAR CITY BLUES by Katharine Kerr

Polar City Blues (Science Fiction) Katharine Kerr June 14, 2011      $4.99      ISBN:  978 1 61138 063 7 An alien spy turns up dead in Hagar, capital city of The Republic, a pitiful handful of worlds stuck between the powerful Interstellar Confederation and the huge Coreward Alliance.  Police Chief Al Bates needs to solve the murder fast before [...]

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Book View Café Releases MEDIUM DEAD by Chris Dolley

  Okay, I read this when it was a baby and I loved it, so now you have to! Medium Dead (Fantasy/Mystery) Chris Dolley June 7, 2011       $3.99 ebook ISBN:  978 1 61138 074 3 Reluctant medium, Brenda Steele, is smart, funny and out of her depth. A Vigilante Demon called Brian wants her to [...]

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Book View Café Releases SHIFT by Chris Dolley

This guy is completely loopy, I mean, his imagination is off the rails and cracking records.  Try this book!   Shift (Science Fiction) Chris Dolley May 31, 2011 $3.99 ebook ISBN: 978 1 61138 067 5 A near future SF mystery thriller with a touch of out-of-body horror. A serial killer with multiple personalities. An [...]

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Book View Café Releases RESONANCE by Chris Dolley

Resonance (Science Fiction) Chris Dolley May 3, 2011      $2.99 ebook ISBN:  978 1 61138 061 3 Graham Smith sees things others can’t…or won’t. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office blocks migrate across town.  Annalise Mercado hears voices, all from girls calling themselves Annalise. They start telling her about Graham Smith and the [...]

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Book View Café Releases ALTHEA by Madeleine Robins

ALTHEA (Historical Romance)      $3.99 ebook Madeleine Robins April 19, 2011         ISBN:  978 1 61138 050 7 The dazzling whirl of London society delighted Althea Ervine.  Having spent all her young life in the country, she was more than ready for the excitement of the city—and for the ardent attention of Edward Pendarly.  Why did Sir [...]

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The frogs are back!

It’s Spring finally in Chicago, and all the swamps are rejoicing. Chorus frogs are my favorite sign of Spring. Their song is hypnotic. After you’ve stood and listened to it for a few minutes, you’ll hear it in the back of your mind all day long.   Pseudacris_triseriata_chorus[1]

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Book View Café Releases Pati Nagle’s IMMORTAL

IMMORTAL (Urban Fantasy) Pati Nagle March 22, 2011                $4.99 ebook ISBN:  9781611380576 What do you do if the most gorgeous guy you’ve ever seen asks for your help?      No brainer.  Len Whiting is smitten from the minute she sees the stranger’s amazing eyes.  She agrees to help [...]

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