Houston, we Have Launch (and Your Chance to Win)

Book View Café is celebrating the opening of our new, completely-redesigned bookstore!
How?
By giving readers a chance to win the book of their choice, free (and DRM-free).

Just take a look around the BookView Cafe store anytime up from RIGHT NOW! until midnight, June 7, and choose the book you'd like—all the books that are eligible for the giveaway are plainly marked with a gold star. Then come back here (before 11:59PM on June 7th) and leave a comment with the name and author of the book and why you want it (we reserve the right to use that comment for publicity purposes).  This contest is open to everyone - worldwide.

At the end of the promotion, one winner will be selected at each participating site*. If you're a winner, we'll send you a coupon for the e-book of your choice.

On June 8th I will number all of the responses left here, and then have the Oracular Cat choose a winner by the time-honored method (involving paper slips, and catnip.)  You need to reply to my you've-won! post w/ your email, or the Oracular Cat will chose another.

              One  entry per person, please - multiple comments on a single site will be disqualified .      

In addition, during our Grand Opening, all BVC anthologies are available at half price
(except Ways to Trash Your Writing Career and Breaking Waves).

*Here are BVC author sites where you can enter for additional chances to win:

Maya Kaathryn Bonhoff 
Chaz Brenchley 
Patricia Burroughs 
Jeffrey Carver 
Amy Sterling Casil 
Laura Anne Gilman 
Lois Gresh 
Kit Kerr 
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Kelly McClymer 
Vonda N. McIntyre 
Nancy Jane Moore 
Linda Nagata 
Pati Nagle 
Steven Harper
Phyllis Irene Radford 
Patricia Rice 
Madeleine Robins 
Deborah J. Ross 
Sherwood Smith 
Jennifer Stevenson 
Judith Tarr
Dave Trowbridge

when you know where you're from, you'll know who you're becoming

this was written last night but, since I'd had several glasses of very red wine at that point, I held over to post until sober judgment had been passed...
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I freely and willingly admit to being a Jersey Girl. Putting my entire Springsteen library on random play is like letting my entire life flash back at me. I'm not the most musically oriented person, but he wrote the soundtrack to my life, sometimes at the exact moment, more often years ahead of when I'd need it.

Sometimes, it's a rockin' memory of being 18 and watching the sun rise over the ocean, exhausted and exulted.

Sometimes it's the memory of my heart breaking, shattering inside me and hurting like nothing survivable.

Sometimes, it's a first-day-of-spring dance party that's never going to end.

Sometimes it's solemn pain, the memory of soot and smoke and sirens that will never end.

Sometimes, and these are the best times, it's "fuck you" and "rock on" and a reminder than no matter what comes, a rough grin and a rockin' band and the willingness to give yourself over to your passion can get you through any damn thing.

There's a more serious essay in there, somewhere, but for now, with the music blasting and the wine flowing and life beating, this is all I've got. And it's enough.

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( The tweets that prompted it )