TELL TALES=====================

News and updates for Talebones Magazine & Fairwood Press

http://www.talebones.com   & http://www.fairwoodpress.com

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Happy New Year everyone! Hope everyone had an excellent holiday season, and that 2005 treats everyone right.

This is the first newsletter being sent via our mailing list system from our websites. That is, those of you who have checked in to one of the websites and actually signed up for the newsletter that way. The rest of you we're sending the newsletter via our regular email … BUT, we’re hoping you'll be so kind as to sign up on the website. It will make it a lot easier for us. Just click on The Mailing List at the top of either website.

As usual, the scramble was on to get the 2nd TALEBONES issue of the year out before the year ended, but we made it. Who knows WHY we do this to ourselves, agonizing over getting an issue out during the busiest time of year for most people. Some day we’ll get our timing straightened out so we have a little more breathing room.

And now to the updates:

FAIRWOOD PRESS==========================

Our newest project became available in November, just in time for the World Fantasy Convention in Washington DC. Tom Piccirilli's poetry collection Waiting My Turn To Go Under the Knife came out in a limited edition hardcover, signed and numbered by Tom. Only 250 copies will be sold.

Our first novel project came out this summer, Dreams of the Desert Wind by Kurt R.A. Giambastiani. It has done well so far. It’s available on the website as a trade paperback.

James Van Pelt’s book Strangers and Beggars continues to do well. We recently received a second large order from Perma-Bound books. We are now working on a 2nd collection of Jim's for release this summer.

 

TALEBONES=====================================

Our current issue, #29, Winter 2004, is available. Fiction by Tom Piccirilli, Kay Kenyon, Louise Marley, Sara Prineas, Craig English, Carrie Vaughn, Stella Evans, and T. Rex. Poetry by Kendall Evans, Greg Beatty, G.O. Clark, and Roger Dutcher. Interview with Tom Piccirilli. Check it out at talebones.com.  Issue #30 is slated for this summer. 

WEBSITES=======================================

Our websites have been completely redesigned for the new year.  The logos on top of this newsletter are from the sites. You can now get to the Forum (new and improved!) from either site.  (Click on THE LOUNGE)

We lost all the posts from the previous incarnation of the forum, but we saved some of the best topics and we'll be slowly getting them up on the new forum along with the new stuff. We hope you’ll consider putting in your two cents worth on a variety of topics (or create your own). We really would like to make the Forum a great place to hang out! Won’t you join us?

Registration is very simple, private and easy, so please register an account, and post post post!

GALLERIES=======================================

The Galleries are available on the talebones.com website. Brand new photos are up in Orion's Place. Most of the pictures are from Christmas last month. We got a new digital camera for Christmas, so we'll probably be updating that gallery more often from now on. And it will be easier for us to take pictures at conventions and special gatherings, then post on the site.

PREVIEW=======================================

We have new stories posted in the Preview section: Two complete stories, one by Kay Kenyon, the other by Louise Marley. We also have two excerpts of longer stories by Tom Piccirilli and Carrie Vaughn. All these are from the new issue.

We hope to have new art samples up soon, so check back.

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On our opening WELCOME pages from both sites, you’ll find text scrollers announcing where to find updated information on the sites, and you can always check “The latest news” on the bottom of the page, where we update the news as soon as know it!

Thanks for reading, and we hope you enjoy exploring the updates on the websites. Please let us know your thoughts! Post in the Forum, or send us an email.

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Patrick & Honna Swenson

Editors/Publishers

Talebones Magazine

Fairwood Press

http://www.fairwoodpress.com

http://www.talebones.com