Announcing:

Book View Café presents a free ebook:
The Moon and the Sun

Book View Café Bonus:
“The Natural History and Extinction
of the People of the Sea,”
by VNM, illustrated by Ursula K. Le Guin

What is Book View Café?

Book View Café is a cooperative site created by a group of writers who want to take advantage of the internet’s possibilities for reaching a wider audience and to distribute their work directly to their readers.

Basement Full of Books Special

Book Sale! Celebrate the debut of Book View Café with an autographed hardcover at a discounted price.

Book View Café Blog

“Everybody Needs a Hobby”

Current Events

• Book View Café debuts, offering fiction online, including, for free, The Moon and the Sun.
• “Shake Up Your Brain,” Guest editor at audible.com — November 2008
• Potlatch 18: February 27 - March 1, 2009

Online Stories

• The Moon and the Sun debuts 16 November 2008 at Book View Café, in electronic form for the first time. Other electronic formats also available.
• “The Adventure of the Field Theorems”
• “Elfleda”
• “Little Faces”
• “A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature”
• “Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand”

Resources for Writers

• “Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy,” by Vonda N. McIntyre, including a new Pitfall, “Size Matters!”
• “Manuscript Preparation” [Venerable PDF handout; updated October 2008]
• Clarion West Writers Workshop, Seattle, WA, USA
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America
• Writer Beware

Math Crafts

• Beaded Sea Creatures: Jellyfish, anemones, nudibranchs, and marine flatworms.
• Hyperbolic Crochet: Anemones, marine flatworms, bell boas.
• Jewelry: Hyperbolic scarves, bead chokers, overwrought fringe.
• Articles

More on the Website

• New on the Website
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Vonda N. McIntyre: The Real Story, by Eileen Gunn
• Biography: Just the facts.
• Comments on The Moon and the Sun.
• Comments on The Starfarers Quartet
• “Ursula K. Le Guin: Mutinous Navigator” (Essay)
• A window display by Jay Herrington.

Offsite Links

• My sister Carolyn McIntyre, wonderful photographer
• Talking Squids in Outer Space
• Science Fiction Conversations

Email

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Blame spammers.