Book View Café is a
publishing cooperative, both in the business and the friendly sense of the
word. We offer one another all the services a traditional publisher would
normally provide, everything from editing a previously-unpublished work to
formatting and cover design, as well as the technical skills necessary to
operate the bookstore and website. Not all of us have such specialized
knowledge, but just about all of us can proofread a manuscript for another
editor.
I recently “carried my fair share” by proofreading the BVC
ebook edition of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s novel, The Catch Trap. (Actually, I was one of two proofreaders, so you
can pick which one of us to blame for any typos you find!) The Catch Trap one of those richly layered books that is “about” a
lot of different things. It’s a gay love story, sure, but it’s also about life
in a traveling circus at the twilight of that life, and it’s about all the ways
families destroy and save us. It’s about that rare bond of a shared vocation, a
calling, the thing that makes us most fully alive. Not just sex, but flying,
and more about that later.
