Space battles, political in-fighting, & personal struggles ramp up the stakes in THE RIFTER'S COVENANT, the rewritten 4th volume in the EXORDIUM series.
The Panarchy is in shambles & an ancient artifact they call the Suneater looms! #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera
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For those who like their monsters mysterious, all-devouring, creepy, or laugh-out-loud funny, my story collection BEYOND HERE BE MONSTERS is currently on sale for $16.99 in trade paperback format from its publisher, Fairwood Press. Grab one before it grabs you!
A boy. . .a girl. . .a spaceship. . .
(I'd like to know who stole whom. . . ?)
BREAKAWAY (The Del and Gia stories) by @ksmithsf.bsky.social, in #ebook from Book View Cafe!
A collection of stories about a lost love, a stolen spacecraft, and life on the run.
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A Book View Café original! It's THE MADMAN'S DANGEROUS DELUSION by Patricia Rice, in her
Gravesyde Village Mysteries series. New in #Ebook & #Paperback from #BookViewCafe.
*Menaced by a madman, a widow and a soldier seek safety. . . and discover so much more.*
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It's not as if we weren't warned.
And in my experience, a lot of stories don’t work because the author has spent 3000 words of a 5000 word story on backfill, which could have been suggested in a few sentences and was all we really needed of that information. They’ve kept the story from launching instead of propelling us into it.
Yep. But also with a short story, you really need to imply rather than show everything.
Tom, I vaguely remember saying that. I do think it’s important not to tell the reader everything about your world. Leave them some room to inhabit the story with your characters.
Congratulations!!
"It was, I realized, the rhythm of a 4chan greentext post. Having absorbed their worldview online, the convention-goers were recreating it in the meatspace, all the way down to its grammar."
*Just because you don’t know your past doesn’t mean you don’t pay the price for it.*
Book View Cafe is delighted to release GIDEON, by @ksmithsf.bsky.social writing as Alex Gordon.
Sometimes the only response to being born a witch is not knowing.
#suspense
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What a concept,,,
The Night Epstein Died
Yup. Repugs are shitting themselaves that we’ll see for ourselves how utterly repulsive he is…and has always been.
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[ALT IMAGE: A simple book cover of matte gold, with black text and white blossoms that may be cherry blossoms, along with a circle of black and white patterned tiles and within the circle a glorious phoenix drawn in back and white.]
Sherwood Smith’s media happy place tends toward braided tales, with characters growing and changing in a world both breathtaking and strange, where striving to become the best one can be matters. She found that in Chinese and Korean historical dramas, which kicked off years of immersion in East Asian history, literature, art, and language.
In 2020 when the world hibernated from the pandemic, she began writing The Phoenix Feather quartet, drawing on all those influences, and throwing in all the tropes she liked best—disguises and secret identities, cultivation arcs, big tropes such as family sagas, and little ones such as “there was just one bed!”
Premise: Twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities—and found themselves blessed by an omen promising great things, a single golden phoenix feather.
Then their three children were born, and found themselves cast out into the world. . . .](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gal2oc2fpdx3u4hqyrukmu7d/bafkreib6pt74zafedpg22rfqczxfu4xcftvweev3kdg63rbbbsk3akwxh4)
[ALT TEXT: THE PHOENIX FEATHER OMNIBUS, four complete novels. FLEDGLINGS * REDBARK * FIREBOLT * DRAGON AND PHOENIX. By Sherwood Smith. ] [ALT IMAGE: A simple book cover of matte gold, with black text and white blossoms that may be cherry blossoms, along with a circle of black and white patterned tiles and within the circle a glorious phoenix drawn in back and white.] Sherwood Smith’s media happy place tends toward braided tales, with characters growing and changing in a world both breathtaking and strange, where striving to become the best one can be matters. She found that in Chinese and Korean historical dramas, which kicked off years of immersion in East Asian history, literature, art, and language. In 2020 when the world hibernated from the pandemic, she began writing The Phoenix Feather quartet, drawing on all those influences, and throwing in all the tropes she liked best—disguises and secret identities, cultivation arcs, big tropes such as family sagas, and little ones such as “there was just one bed!” Premise: Twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran for their lives from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they adopted new identities—and found themselves blessed by an omen promising great things, a single golden phoenix feather. Then their three children were born, and found themselves cast out into the world. . . .
THE PHOENIX FEATHER OMNIBUS by Sherwood Smith: FLEDGLINGS, REDBARK, FIREBOLT, & DRAGON AND PHOENIX.
Visit Sherwood's ❤️ song to East Asian history, literature, & art with disguises, secret identities, cultivation arcs, family sagas, & even “there was just one bed!”
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While modifying Douglas Fir #genetics to grow mature timber trees faster, biologists inadvertently hand Nature a means to seek revenge on its most pernicious species . . . humans.
TREEVOLUTION by Paul S. Piper is a Book View Cafe SF #thriller in paper & #ebook.
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The Secret House by Gregory Frost
PHILLY BOOK CRAWL Event this Saturday!
Saturday, August 23rd, 2 p.m.—3p.m. Philly Book Crawl Book Signing Event.
Main Point Books, 116 North Wayne Avenue, Wayne, PA 19087
Come mingle, get your books signed and personalized, and enjoy the Book Crawl events at Main Point Books.
Can a #shapeshifter find a path between the twilight world of shifters and her human life?
FROZEN IN AMBER by Irene Radford, now in #ebook and #paperback. Read a sample over at #BookViewCafe.
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Great harmonies as well.
Irony or cluelessness?
Assuming this means referencing their work and not recommending the author her-or himself personally… R.A. Lafferty.
And used at least once in every SW film, I believe.
![[ALT TEXT: THE SCOUNDREL'S DEADLY DEED, Gravesyde Village Mystery Book Two by New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Rice. "Second chances can be murder . . . "]
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[ALT TEXT: THE SCOUNDREL'S DEADLY DEED, Gravesyde Village Mystery Book Two by New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Rice. "Second chances can be murder . . . "] [ALT IMAGE: A dark book cover with decorative gold lettering at the top and bottom. In the large center, storm clouds are parting, bright light seen at a distant horizon past a village, woods and a lake. A well-manicured farm, sheep grazing on a hill, can be seen in the center. Close to the viewer are two figures, one a young woman with flaming red hair looking off to the right of the picture. She's dressed in a vivid green floor length dress. Several feet behind her is a gentleman in dark business clothing, also looking to the right of the frame, intent on something happening beyond our view. ]
Book View Cafe & @patriceauthor.bsky.social are delighted to bring you THE SCOUNDREL'S DEADLY DEED, #2 of Pat's new Gravesyde Village Mysteries. Historical mystery spiced with romance!
Remember, second chances can be murder.
Try a sample!
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Marie Brennan's terrific short fiction collection, The Atlas of Anywhere, is out today from Book View Café.
I was a researcher on a Discover Channel documentary back in the ‘90s on “ the curse of the pharaohs”, which concluded that the so-called curse was in fact exposure to aspergillis niger, mostly by Englishmen who had compromised immune systems and had been sent to Egypt for the climate.
Sheer genius.
Some great tips on writing historical fiction from Gregory Frost @gregfrost.bsky.social over at the Horror Writer's site! horror.org/nuts-bolts-g...
For HWA "Nuts & Bolts" column, Tom Joyce interviews me on the topic of researching historical fantasy and horror fiction:
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![[ALT TEXT: DESCENDING FROM THE MOON by Steven Popkes ]
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[ALT TEXT: DESCENDING FROM THE MOON by Steven Popkes ] [ALT IMAGE: Under a full moon and a starry sky, a gorilla is playing a gleaming white upright piano. There's a tree leafed out above the back of the instrument, and also an adult pangolin standing on top of the piano.]
BVC presents DESCENDING FROM THE MOON by Steven Popkes.
LeRoy Parkin had a secret: a project to raise the intelligence of chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, & baboons to human levels.
Then the apes began discussing who they were and what they wanted. . . .
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