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AUTHOR'S COOPERATIVE GOES DIRECT TO KINDLE
Book View Café launches new press and “Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls”

(National)--Traditional publishing, new media, ebooks, and now "vooks"… the publishing world is gripped by unprecedented upheaval. In the middle of industry revolution, what's a working author to do?

For the authors of Book View Cafe, the answer is band together and take charge. This group of twenty-six award-winning and best-selling authors have elected to by-pass traditional publishing and bring out their latest work directly on Amazon's Kindle and Sony's eReader.

All professionally published, and many currently under contract with traditional New York firms such as Random House, Tor Books and Simon & Schuster, the Book View Cafe authors first came together in 2008 to create bookviewcafe.com, a destination website for online fiction. Armed with a century’s worth of experience in all aspects of publishing, members include multiple-award-winning authors like Ursula K. Le Guin and Vonda N. McIntyre, bestsellers like Sarah Smith and Laura Anne Gilman, and new talents like Seanan McGuire.

Once the main site was established, the authors formed Book View Press to take their titles out onto the wider Internet world.

"The e-publishing infrastructure is now firmly in place," says Project Manager Sarah Zettel. "BVC authors have both content and the experience to take full advantage of it."

Book View Press titles will be created and edited by the BVC's members, and made available through the Kindle and Sony eReader stores, as well as at bookviewcafe.com. No outside publishing house will be involved and the profits go directly to the authors.

Book View Press's first project is an anthology of science fiction titles, ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS, which will include work by SF mega-star Vonda N. McIntyre, best-seller Katherine Kerr, and a host of other notables including Amy Sterling Casil, Irene Radford, Maya Bohnhoff, and C.L. Anderson.

The next project from Book View Press is more ambitious. An entirely original anthology of linked short stories titled THE SHADOW CONSPIRACY. With a release date of December 15, 2009, SHADOW CONSPIRACY is set in an alternate Victorian age filled with airships, and automata where a human's soul can be stolen and a machine's soul can be born. As with ROCKET BOY, the project will go straight to the Kindle, the eReader and the iPhone.

"Ebooks give us a fantastic opportunity to bring our best work straight to the readers," says Zettel. "It's truly an exciting time to be an author."

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