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BVC Welcomes Patricia Burroughs |
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Written by BVC News Editor
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Join us in welcoming Patricia Burroughs to Book View Café
Patricia Burroughs — Pooks — began her writing career in romance
with five published novels. She received nominations and recognition from RT
Reviews and was a Finalist for Romance Writers of America’s Rita.
Then she got lured over to the dark side — screenwriting. Her
first script landed her an agent, director, stars — everything needed for the
movie to get made but money. Later scripts [action comedies, romantic comedies,
science fiction and fantasies] continued the string of “almosts” until the
years 2000 and 2001, when she became the only screenwriter in the history of
the competition to be a Finalist twice — with two different scripts — for the
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting. She received the Fellowship from the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for an adaptation of her first published
novel, What Wild Ecstasy, under the
title, “Redemption.” Uncredited but paying work followed, and she was happy
with her Hollywood dreams...
Until one day she woke up with a new story rooting itself into
her heart, a story that couldn’t be told in a script but needed many more pages
to spread out, flex its muscles and take wing. She returned to novels and is
presently writing an epic fantasy trilogy.
Pooks blames her manic tendencies on her heritage. Her
mother was born and raised in the Hazlehurst area of Mississippi that spawned
Babe, Lenny, and Meg in Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart.” Her father was
born in a hell-hot West Texas oil field amidst the passion and greed that arise
wherever the prospect of quick fortune lurks. Her ancestors include a British
admiral in the Revolutionary War and a signer of the Texas Declaration of
Independence, the notorious outlaw James brothers of Missouri and Baptist
missionaries. To put it simply, in the blood flowing through her veins is a wealth
of warring emotion — law-abiding and revolutionary, defiant and devout,
altruistic and avaricious.
With her gene pool and life-style she had two options:
Succumb to schizophrenia or become a writer. According to friends and family,
she did both.
Read her first BVC blog, “Paul and me.”
Her first Book View Café ebook is La Desperada (originally titled What Wild Ecstasy), which includes “Redemption,” her award-winning screenplay.
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BVC Announces eBook Edition of La Desperada by Patricia Burroughs |
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Written by BVC News Editor
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 La Desperada
Patricia Burroughs
“This is the book that Joan Wilder would have written!”
—Terri Edda Miller
Producer, Castle
With her husband dead and his brother trying to kill her,
Elizabeth Dougherty breaks into the jail and holds a cold-blooded murderer at
gunpoint, promising to release him if he’ll agree to her terms. “Take me with
you.”
But when Boone Coulter grudgingly agrees, he has no idea
that her would-be killer is the sheriff — an enemy from his past who now wants
them both dead.
Set in the Texas and New Mexico of Billy the Kid, their
passionate tale of love and sacrifice becomes the stuff of legend...
The legend of “La Desperada.”
Originally titled What
Wild Ecstasy [Kensington Books], this tale inspired the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts & Sciences/Nicholl Award-winning screenplay, “Redemption.”
Novel
and script are available together for the first time.
Read a Sample: Prologue & Chapter 1
ISBN: 978-1-61138-141-2
Publication date: January 24, 2011
DRM-free formats: EPUB, MOBI/Kindle
Buy now: $4.99
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Written by BVC eBook Editor
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“But I don’t have a Kindle, a Nook, or any dedicated ebook reader!”
You can read BVC ebooks on your computer, PDA, most smartphones, as well
as on a Kindle, Nook, Sony eReader, or other dedicated ebook reader.
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Calibre
allows you to read DRM-free ebooks (such as those available at BVC) on
your PC or Mac, and also organizes your ebook library and converts from
one format to another, giving you more flexibility with your reading
choices.
“But I have a Kindle, a Nook, a dedicated ebook reader! Don’t I have to buy my ebooks from their stores?”
Not at all —You can buy and read BVC eBooks. You can experiment with our Free eBooks.
Once you’ve downloaded a BVC ebook to your computer, attach your reading
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Be sure you've chosen the correct file format for your reading gizmo. If
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to a BVC ebook, you will be asked to register or log in. This allows
the website to give you access to your ebooks, so you may download a new
copy at any time.
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BVC Announces eBook edition of Guardian of the Balance by Irene Radford |
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Written by BVC ebooks editor
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 Guardian of the Balance
Merlin's Descendants, Vol. 1
Irene Radford
 Caught between her beloved father, the Merlin of Britain, and Arthur
Pendragon, the old ways and the new, Wren must find a way to balance the
forces of Chaos with peace. She nurtures the land and the people,
creating a haven for anyone displaced by the turbulence. And for the
safety of all she must guard her heart against the deep love she shares
with Arthur, a married king who holds the future of all the Britains in
his hands and his sword.
Praise for Guardian of the Balance
...Obvious folkloric expertise.
— Publisher’s Weekly
An ambitious project that should... appeal (to) fans of Arthurian legend and goddess centered magic.
— Library Journal
Read a Sample: Chapter 6
Detailed Map
ISBN: 978-1-61138-138-2
Publication date: January 17, 2012
DRM-free formats: EPUB, MOBI/Kindle
Introductory price: $4.99 $3.99
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