BC Books Online was created for anyone interested in BC-published books, and with librarians especially in mind. We'd like to make it easy for library staff to learn about books from BC publishers - both new releases and backlist titles - so you can inform your patrons and keep your collections up to date.
Our site features print books and ebooks - both new releases and backlist titles - all of which are available to order through regular trade channels. Browse our subject categories to find books of interest or create and export lists by category to cross-reference with your library's current collection.
A quick tip: When reviewing the "Browse by Category" listings, please note that these are based on standardized BISAC Subject Codes supplied by the books' publishers. You will find additional selections, grouped by theme or region, in our "BC Reading Lists."
Love Block is the winner of the 27th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest, the annual Labour Day weekend marathon in which entrants around the world spend 72 hours writing a novel from beginning to end. The contest, inspired by the story that Voltaire wrote his novel Candide in three days, has attracted thousands of contestants over the years, undaunted by the notion of creating a narrative masterpiece on their laptops or typewriters, fueled by coffee, adrenaline, and the dream of spontaneous literary nirvana.
Love Block is just like the contest itself: funny, fast, and furious. Through a series of correspondences, two female secret agents debate, bicker, and explore the issue of love, specifically a search for a cure for the lovelorn, perhaps to be found in a "love block" potion that will foil any and all heartbreak. Whether same-sex or opposite-sex, it's about being human and whether to surrender to the idea of true love.
The contest has created its own genre concerned with the creation of novella-length works of great originality.
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