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BOOK VIEW CAFE came together in 2008 around a group of authors with a simple aim: to use the Internet to bring their work directly to their readers. It was already clear that a revolution was coming to the publishing industry and these authors wanted to help shape its course.

Drawing on a collective century’s worth of experience in the publishing industry, the authors created an online space where readers can browse and discover new authors and titles alongside current favorites. Aware that the Internet demands variety, the site features fresh fiction every day on the front page, a feat made possible by the extensive list of material available to over over thirty professional authors, including bestsellers and award winners such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, Laura Anne Gilman, Sarah Smith, Sarah Zettel and Steven Harper.

Since its launch, Book View Café has experienced a steady growth in readers and in author-members. The Cafe now receives over 700,000 hits every month. The author blog has also seen increasing popularity since its launch, drawing a further eight to nine thousand hits per month. You can visit the website at www.bookviewcafe.com.

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Angel on the Beach
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 65980 words. by Jay Caselberg and published by Book View Cafe on February 21, 2010
This collection shows the breadth of Caselberg’s writing: Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction and all those things in between. Within these tales, Caselberg explores the darker side of humanity and life. Both older stories and new previously unpublished pieces, it is sure to intrigue and give the reader plenty of food for thought.
Ars Magica
Ebook Price: $3.99 USD. 73710 words. by Judith Tarr and published by Book View Cafe on February 14, 2010
This is a true story. Once there was a boy whose soul soared so high that no simple farmstead could contain him. A wise teacher took him from his father’s farm and taught him all that the teacher knew; then sent him on to greater teachers, until the boy arrived at the pinnacle of the world. Emperors bowed before him; princes of the Church yielded to his will. But the boy had a secret…
Crown Duel
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 180250 words. by Sherwood Smith and published by Book View Cafe on February 7, 2010
Meliara and her brother vow to free Remalna from an evil king. War is tougher than it seemed. When Meliara is caught by the enemy commander, the elegant Marquis, it’s escape or die. Afterward, Meliara faces a tougher challenge: the battlefield is no longer mud and steel, but palaces, the weapons manners and fans. Toughest of all is courtship, when the one who catches her heart is an enemy.
Lacing up for Murder
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 75380 words. by Phyllis Radford and published by Book View Cafe on January 17, 2010
Do you love spooky old buildings with many hiding places for secrets? Welcome to the Whistling River Lodge where the Lacemakers have convened, corporate deals go sour, and someone gets murdered.
Taco Del & The Fabled Tree of Destiny
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 120550 words. by Maya Kaathryn  Bohnhoff  and published by Book View Cafe on January 17, 2010
The kingdom of Embarcadero is under siege. King Elvis wants to steal its secrets, mysterious outsiders want to expel its citizens, an ancient and sinister Force threatens to devour their souls. Salvation rests on the slender shoulders of a young wizard named Taco Del and his unlikely allies—a red-haired Chinese girl, a ghosty tribe of Mission Indians and a small fir tree named Doug.
Fools Paradise
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 91770 words. by Jennifer Stevenson and published by Book View Cafe on January 17, 2010
Bobbyjay and Daisy are blue-collar Romulans and Capulets in this romantic comedy about stagehands. Can love begin in a Targa full of live smelt?
Laldasa: Beloved Slave
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 148560 words. by Maya Kaathryn  Bohnhoff  and published by Book View Cafe on January 16, 2010
Anala Nadim is a free woman until she travels to the planet Mehtar to procure supplies for her father's mining operation. But in the teeming capitol city of Kasi, a twist of fate enslaves Anala to the Lord Prince of Kasi—Jaya Sarojin. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal, political intrigue and love that introduces both Jaya and Anala to lives they had never before imagined.
Revise the World
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 183310 words. by Brenda  Clough and published by Book View Cafe on January 8, 2010
In 1912 explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out into an Antarctic blizzard to save Robert Scott and the other members of the English exploration team. His body is never found–because he was snatched away into the year 2045 by scientists experimenting with a new faster-than-light drive. But Oates stubbornly sticks to his old explorer job and sets off on an intergalactic adventure.
Magical Crimes
Ebook Price: $0.99 USD. 14860 words. by Chris Dolley and published by Book View Cafe on December 31, 2009
Magical Crimes is a fun CSI with magic novelette that has everything – a locked room mystery, a forensic magician, and ... a psychic profiler with a two-foot long penis. Naturally this is a penis used purely for the purposes God intended – humour and crimefighting – not for lustful titillation. Chris Dolley is the author of Resonance (Baen)
Offspring: A Novel of the Silent Empire
Ebook Price: $2.99 USD. 148200 words. by Steven Harper and published by Book View Cafe on December 30, 2009
One madman's lust for power tore the Dream asunder. Now only a handful of the Silent can enter it. Kendi Weaver is one of them. As an important election begins on Bellerophon, Kendi is caught in the crossfire. Attempts on his life—and a rash of Silent kidnappings—point to a political enemy...or a personal one. Either way, the future of the Dream is at stake. And it may become a nightmare.
Trickster: A Novel of the Silent Empire
Ebook Price: $2.99 USD. 117130 words. by Steven Harper and published by Book View Cafe on December 30, 2009
In the midst of the Despair, Father Kendi Weaver and the crew of the Poltergeist have a limited window of opportunity to find the loved ones they have lost--including Kendi's parents and siblings, who were sold into slavery fifteen years ago. But just as Kendi closes in on the whereabouts of his brother and sister, they are taken by a mysterious group intent on using them for their own agenda.
Nightmare: A Novel of the Silent Empire
Ebook Price: $2.99 USD. 118800 words. by Steven Harper and published by Book View Cafe on December 29, 2009
In the future, Dreamers known as "Silent" are able to look into other people's dreams and communicate with other Silent across the galaxy. Hijacked into slavery, Kendi Weaver has resigned himself to a life of servitude. Then the discovery of his innate Silence changes everything. He is rescued and taken to the planet Bellerophon--where a brutal Silent killer has chosen Kendi for his next victim.
Dreamer: A Novel of the Silent Empire
Ebook Price: $0.99 USD. 138670 words. by Steven Harper and published by Book View Cafe on December 29, 2009
Rust is just one planet among many in the Empire of Human Unity. It's nothing special...except that it's home to an unknown boy who may be the most powerful Silent telepath ever born. For now, only Kendi Weaver of the Children of Irfan knows about the boy. But power like that can't remain hidden for long--and every government in the galaxy will be willing to go to war to control him.
Uncategorized
Ebook Price: $1.99 USD. 70320 words. by Sue Lange and published by Book View Cafe on December 28, 2009
In this brilliant collection of critically praised short stories, progressive sci-fi author grabs the reader's attention with the aggressive delivery of a beat poet and the timing of a stand-up comedian.
Glorieta Pass
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 175970 words. by P. G.  Nagle and published by Book View Cafe on December 3, 2009
In 1861, New Mexico is swept by change as the United States erupts in civil war. Three young people are caught in the conflict: Alastar O'Brien, Colorado miner turned soldier; Laura Howland, a young orphan from Boston; and Jamie Russell, a shop clerk from Texas serving as a quartermaster. The maelstrom of war brings them together in a clash of ambition, patriotism, and the need to survive.

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Camelot's Blood
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 136990 words. Fiction by Book View Cafe on January 16, 2010
Sir Agravain is one of the least regarded of the knights of the Round Table, scorned for his acerbic tongue and cold heart. Lady Laurel guards a powerful heritage, but still requires alliance with King Arthur to safeguard her home. To cement that alliance, she agrees to wed Sir Agravain. She does not expect love,or even happiness. What Laurel and Agravain discover together is beyond imagining.
Under Camelot's Banner
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 152570 words. Fiction by Book View Cafe on January 16, 2010
Squire Gareth, youngest of the sons of Lot, is proud of his skills and of his mentor the glorious Sir Lancelot. But he has yet to learn the true cost of chivalry, honor and love. The Paths to Camelot, Book 3
For Camelot's Honor
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 145040 words. Fiction by Book View Cafe on January 15, 2010
Sir Geraint of the Round Trouble is a quiet man, trusted but not honored. Elen of the West Lands is heir to a lineage of magic and danger. Together they must find a way to liberate a lost country from a dread enchantment and win an impossible love. Book 2 in the Paths to Camelot Series
In Camelot's Shadow
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 143640 words. Fiction by Book View Cafe on January 14, 2010
Sir Gawain is one of the greatest knights of the Round Table, and heir to Arthur's throne. Risa of the Morelands is laboring under a damnable fate levelled on her by her father before she was even born. Together they must embark on a quest to save their lives, their hearts and the future of Camelot itself. The first book in the Paths to Camelot series.
Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls
Ebook Price: $4.99 USD. 110990 words. Fiction by Book View Cafe on January 5, 2010
With evocative stories of lost comrades, alien first contacts, and strange, often unexpected confrontations with evolving science, Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls embraces both our pulp-dream past and cutting-edge future. Stories by Vonda N. McIntyre, Brenda W. Clough, Katharine Kerr, Judith Tarr, P.R. Frost, Pati Nagle, Madeleine Robins, Nancy Jane Moore, Sarah Zettel, Amy Sterling Casil, and more!
The Shadow Conspiracy: Tales of the Steam Age Vol. I
Ebook Price: $9.99 USD. 114710 words. Fiction by Book View Cafe on January 4, 2010
Set in a world of ensouled machines and soulless humans, dirigibles, and steam-powered miracles, these tales follow the adventures dreamers, experimenters and engineers who work their mechanical and metaphysical magic for good...and evil. But all are driven by the consequences of a gathering of poets on Lake Geneva in 1816 that changed everything we thought we knew about science, and ourselves.

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