The Internet has changed everything.

Okay, not exactly everything. However, it has made it easy to connect writers and their readers. While scouring my usual virtual haunts, I stumbled upon a new endeavor called Book View Cafe. Here's what it is about:

Book View Cafe is a consortium of over twenty professional authors with extensive publishing credits in the print world. The Internet is giving us an opportunity to make our out-of-print, experimental, or otherwise unavailable work available to you. Every day, new content available nowhere else will be served up on Book View Cafe: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, episodes of serialized novels, and maybe even a podcast now and then. The content will be archived and available after the posting date by visiting the author's bookshelf.

And the list of authors is impressive:

Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - Brenda Clough - Kate Daniel - Laura Anne Gilman - Christie Golden - Anne Harris - Sylvia Kelso - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Sue Lange - Ursula K. Le Guin - Rebecca Lickiss - Vonda N. McIntyre - Nancy Jane Moore - Pati Nagle - Darcy Pattison - Irene Radford - Madeleine Robins - Amy Sterling - Jennifer Stevenson - Susan Wright - Sarah Zettel.

They also have a blog for those who are interested in such things. :)

In the immortal words of Mark Shea: Check thou it out!