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Maya is half of Maya & Jeff, a Pegasus Award-winning musical duo. They’ve collaborated on three amazing children and live in San Jose. Read/listen to Maya’s work at www.bookviewcafe.com or www.jeffandmaya.com or Mystic Fig.
Inspired by a lifelong love of nature, endless curiosity, and a belief in wonderful things, Amy Sterling Casil is a 2002 Nebula Award nominee and recipient of other awards and recognition for her short science fiction and fantasy, which has appeared in publications ranging from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction to Zoetrope. She is the author of twenty-one nonfiction books, about a hundred short stories, one fiction and poetry collection, and two novels. She lives in Playa del Rey, California, with her daughter Meredith and a Jack Russell Terrier named Badger.
Brenda W. Clough is a meek mild-mannered reporter at a major metropolitan publication. She has published seven novels, many short stories, nonfiction, and innumerable book reviews that revolve around death, misery and grief. She has traveled around the world under the aegis of the US government, and now lives in a cottage at the edge of a forest, surrounded by animals.
Her latest novel, Revise the World , is available at Book View Café. A version of it was a finalist for both the Hugo and Nebula awards.
Chris Dolley is an English author, a pioneer computer game designer and a teenage freedom fighter. That was back in 1974.
He writes SF, fantasy, mystery and humour. His novel, Resonance, was the first book to be chosen from Baen’s electronic slush pile.
Now he lives a self-sufficient lifestyle in deepest France with his wife and a frightening number of animals. They grow their own food and solve their own crimes. French Fried: one man’s move to France with too many animals and an identity thief is available in the BVC Bookstore.
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel was not born in the Texas Hill Country, but she got there as fast as she could. In the beginning she was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New SF/Fantasy Writer. Katharine’s work has long straddled the line: “too literary to be commercial, too commercial to be literary” — she has a list of itinerant occupations to prove it.
Published novels include the historical dark fantasies Night Calls and Kindred Rites. On the science fiction side you will find Fire Sanctuary, Fires of Nuala , and Hidden Fires , stand-alone tales which take place on the same planet.
Katharine is managed by a Burmese cat and a handful of gargoyles. Her occasional hobbies have included ballroom dancing, brewing beer, antique roses and macrobiotic cooking.
Go to http://www.katharineeliskakimbriel.com for the most recent info; she posts at her blog, which runs downhill to Facebook, My Space and other points east.
Sue Lange has two print novels of science fiction (Tritcheon Hash and We, Robots) and two ebooks of science fiction (Uncategorized and The Textile Planet ). Visit her website at: http://www.suelangetheauthor.com. She lives in Pennsylvania with a tub, four sinks, two toilets, and a bidet.
It’s no accident that Nancy Jane Moore’s collection from PS Publishing is called Conscientious Inconsistencies: She refuses to stick to one genre or even one style of writing. Her other book, Changeling, from Aqueduct Press, is a novella, and despite the name it’s not about fairies. Nancy Jane’s short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Treachery and Treason, Imaginings, and Polyphony 5, as well as in magazines ranging from Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine to the National Law Journal. Her initial project for Book View Café was a series of flash fictions — very short stories of multiple genres — but her next undertaking will be a serialized novel. Nancy Jane is a member of SFWA and Broad Universe, and holds a fourth-degree black belt in Aikido. After many years in Washington, D.C., she now lives in Austin, Texas.
Pati Nagle was born and raised in the mountains of northern New Mexico. In addition to The Shadow Conspiracy and other Book View Café anthologies, her stories have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Cicada, and Cricket magazines. Heart of the Exiled, sequel to her fantasy novel The Betrayal , was released in January, 2011.
Irene Radford has been writing stories ever since she figured out what a pencil was for. A member of an endangered species, a native Oregonian who lives in Oregon, she and her husband make their home in Welches, Oregon, where deer, bears, coyotes, hawks, owls, and woodpeckers feed regularly on their back deck.
A museum trained historian, Irene has spent many hours prowling pioneer cemeteries deepening her connections to the past. Raised in a military family she grew up all over the US and learned early on that books are friends that don’t get left behind with a move. Her interests and reading range from ancient history, to spiritual meditations, to space stations, and a whole lot in between.
Judith Tarr is an acclaimed author of historical novels and historical fantasy. Her novel of Alexander the Great, Lord of the Two Lands , was a World Fantasy Award nominee, and she most recently published a prequel to the story of Alexander, Bring down the Sun (Tor). She also writes as Caitlin Brennan (The Mountain’s Call and the forthcoming House of the Star) and Kathleen Bryan (The Serpent and the Rose). Her linked Shadow Conspiracy stories are her first foray into the Age of Steam, but she has had a long love affair with the fiction, fashions, and foibles of the period.
Publication Information
The Shadow Conspiracy II
Phyllis Irene Radford
Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Editors
Copyright © 2011 Book View Cafe
Cover design: Pati Nagle
Cover photo Copyright © 2011 Christa Newman
Illustration for “Pirate Queen of French Prairie”
Copyright © 2011 Scott Denning
Photos used with the kind permission of the artists.
Thanks to the participants of the Photo Contest
All rights reserved to the individual authors & photographers.
Book View Café
ISBN: 978 1 61138 043 9
February 2011
Copyright
“Mad Bad Richard Dadd,” Copyright © 2011 Amy Sterling Casil
“The Peculiar Case of Sir Willoughby Smythe,” Copyright © 2011 by Judith Tarr
“Pirate Queen of French Prairie,” Copyright © 2011 Irene Radford
“The Maiden Mechanical, Copyright © 2011 Brenda Clough
“Shadow of Kilimanjaro,” Copyright © 2011 Sue Lange
“Nuthin’ but a Man,” Copyright © 2011 C.L. Anderson
“Abide with Me,” Copyright © 2011 Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
“Steel Seraph,” Copyright © 2011 Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
“New Lives,” Copyright © 2011 Nancy Jane Moore
“Clair de Lune,” Copyright © 2011 Pati Nagle
“What Ho! Automaton,” Copyright © 2011 Chris Dolley
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