News & Events

• Featured at Book View Cafe every Sunday: Dreamsnake: In its first legitimate electronic edition, Dreamsnake is now available at Book View Cafe. It will be serialized one chapter per week, for free, or readers may buy the eBook edition, available in Palm/Mobipocket .prc format, html, and PDF, for $4.99. Visit Novels by Vonda N. McIntyre at BVC for more details. Email me (see email address below) to suggest other formats. Comment at Dreamsnake, the eBook.
• Book View Cafe is reprinting “Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy” during the next few weeks.
• My Book, the Movie has posted my essay on the dream cast for the imaginary movie of Dreamsnake. Comment at Casting Dreamsnake: Update on the Book View Cafe Blog.
• Star Trek interview at Forces of Geek.
• You can follow me at Twitter. Or use the Twitter Widget.
• The Moon and the Sun is featured, by chapter, on Sundays at Book View Cafe. Mobile-device-friendly formats of the book may be found here in the Online Fiction section, and mint autographed hardcovers may be found in Basement Full of Books.
• “LADeDeDa,” by Ursula K. Le Guin and Vonda N. McIntyre, appears in the “Futures” column of the science journal Nature, in its 12 March 2009 issue. (Requires subscription)
  

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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.

Book View Café Blog

• Book View Cafe is reprinting “Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy” during the next few weeks. June-July 2009
• “The Jumpy-Cam Grumpies,” 14 June 2009
• “Sports Blather,” 7 June 2009
• “Spam, spam, spam, spam!,” 6 June 2009
• “Radical Transparency,” at Book View Cafe. 31 May 2009.
• “Casting Dreamsnake: Update” — Comment on the casting suggestions at My Book, the Movie: Dreamsnake. 24 May 2009.
• Mystery Flower, at Book View Cafe Blog. 17 May 2009
• 30 April-3 May, 8 May 2009: “72-hour film competition,” at Book View Cafe blog:
  1. 30 April-1 May 2009: Friday morning: Receiving the rules, writing the xcript
  2. 1 May 2009: Friday: Planning, and the Sekirt Prop.
  3. 2 May 2009: Saturday: Lights! Camera! Rain!
  4. 3 May 2009: Sunday: Dry ice! Fog machine! The Sekrit Prop revealed!
  5. 8 May 2009: Friday night: The results
• 26 April 2009: “Dreamsnake the ebook”
• 19 April 2009: “Remembering My Mom”
• 12 April 2009: “Casting Dreamsnake” — A call for suggestions for the perfect fantasy cast. Who could play Merideth?
• 5 April 2009: “My Year in LA: The Sci Fi Channel Interview, or, Vonda Encounters Makeup.” An hour in makeup for a minute talking about Star Wars: The Crystal Star.
• 29 March 2009: “Myths.” Is an urban myth still urban if it’s in Yellowstone National Park? Some myths deserve to be left alone.
• 22 March 2009: “Insidious”
• 15 March 2009: Shake Up Your Brain Books: Fiction
• 8 March 2009: Science Badges, in which your humble correspondent claims several merit badges from the Science Creative Quarterly, and reminisces about being rejected by The New Yorker.
• 1 March 2009: Road Trip Blog Bytes, in which your humble correspondent braves monsoon and fog and views a giant sundial.
• 22 February 2009: Mr. Spock’s Dad, in which your humble correspondent meets Mark Lenard, and becomes tongue-tied.
• 15 February 2009: Writing Star Trek Novels, or, Why don’t you get a morally acceptable job? “...Pretty much the only drawback was that some of my colleagues took exception to my polluting my precious bodily fluids with evil tie-in novels....”
• 8 February 2009: Shake-up-your-brain books.
• 1 February 2009: My Year in L.A. (Day One & Day Last): Moving in, moving out; the Man from UNCLE in the driveway.
• 25 January 2009: The Contenders Head for the Finish Line: More entries in the Bad Cover Contest, including the only one so far that challenges Droomslang for the honors (?).
• 18 January 2009: More on Movies — The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Brother from Another Planet, and Hollywood recollections.
• 11 January 2009: Rise of the Lichens: A celebration of a movie about ancient forms of life.
• 4 January 2009: The Contendahs for the Bad Cover Contest. I’m not giving up Droomslang’s trophy yet.
• 28 December 2008: Bad Cover Competition. I propose the Dutch cover of Dreamsnake, Droomslang, as the worst SF cover ever published. Try to best (worst?) it.
• 26 December 2008: Preview: Bead Creatures at TheIFF Los Angeles exibit
• 21 December 2008: “Jigsaw Puzzle”
• 14 December 2008: “The Collecting Bug”
• 7 December 2008: “Stomp, Scratch, and Snack, or, The McIntyre Sisters Encounter a Bear” by VNM
• 30 November 2008: “Iceoglyphs,” by VNM
• 23 November 2008: “Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Food Bugs,” by VNM
• 16 November 2008: “Everybody Needs a Hobby” by VNM

Online Stories

• Most of the following titles are available as regular web pages (.html), PDFs, and Palm/Mobipocket (.prc).
• Dreamsnake, serialized at Book View Cafe (free), or complete in ebook form ($4.99).
• The Moon and the Sun at Book View Café, in electronic form for the first time. Recently added to www.vondanmcintyre.com: other formats for The Moon and the Sun.
• “The Adventure of the Field Theorems”
• “Misprint”
• “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
• Gila Queen’s Guide to Markets
• 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
• More offsite links

Email

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