team7Hi all,

I'm moving the content of this journal to http://team7.dreamwidth.org starting today. I'll be closing this journal for good on May 31. Just a heads up :) More in the nature of status updates in http://team7.dreamwidth.org.

I know I haven't been around for the last one and a half years or so, but that should change. Yes.

team7I should really try to analyze these things more.

( fandom meme )

EDIT: CHIAKI/NODAME 4EVER. THEY GO BEYOND LISTS. OMG. THE--THE SPECIAL.

team7Ah, fandom, I have neglected you dreadfully. Let me show you my love!

Fic requests?

team7Promised certain people, so:



Yeah, you know, that Kristin.

Lisa Mantchev's "Dance Across Embers" is fabulous.

Have been writing but no time as yet to post it. Will definitely update within the week though. Thanks for your patience.

team7Sorry, PSA once again (regular programming to be back--soon): Please come to Read Or Die's event at the Manila International Book Fair on Sunday (September 2): http://read-or-die.org/bagonglibro

Cosplays, book discussions, performance readings and a lot of forums. Thanks and see you at the Manila Book Fair (by the way, RoD has a booth at the Book Fair -- we're at #377, aisle I).

team7This past month has been toxic.

So very sorry. Will definitely post the next issue of Maybe Sparrows on August 9 (which means we skipped one issue, will not happen again =_=) and will be posting the reading list for the September issue by tomorrow. The next issue of India & The Conundrum was delayed a bit but it should be up by tomorrow as well.

Re: The latest LJ fiasco -- I'll still continue to keep this journal. I'll still post fic and fandom-related entries here. I don't think I'm up to the rigors of creating a new archive or website or re-activating my account at ff.net.

As for my personal/pseudo-fandom activities, I've begun using team7 more and more as a dumping ground for random daily trivia and for keeping in touch with long-time online friends whom I'd follow basically anywhere, and less as as a--how to put it--content-based journal. So it'll stay that way, but I think that, for the most part, my lj-centric days are behind me.

My typepad account is here: http://cocoro.typepad.com (still a 6A service, alas, but it's been pre-paid so there's nothing I can do about it), and that's what I now automatically think about when people ask me where my 'weblog' is. Of course I blog regularly at the RoD blog and I was serious about that group fandom blog.

If you guys are moving elsewhere, or if you keep a blog in Wordpress etc, please comment so I can link you at cocoro.

team7(Sorry to the non-Filipinos in this flist!)

Read Or Die will be holding its July 2007 club meeting at A Different Bookstore (Serendra) on July 28 (Saturday) with the National Book Development Board Book Club and Anvil Publishing . Read Or Die will be discussing its club reading list for July as well as details regarding Ang Bagong Libro and other events and functions the club will hosting at the 28th Manila International Book Fair . If you would like to volunteer for Ang Bagong Libro, please attend the meeting. You can drop by any time between 2PM and 4PM (if you’re not a member, that is. If you’re a member, please come on time!)

At 4PM, the National Book Development Board Book Club will come in to host a book discussion on Romina Gonzalez’s “Welostit and Other Stories,” the club’s Book Of The Month for July. The NBDB Book Club is envisioned to be a high-profile reading group held at coffee shops and restaurants in the metro, and attended by a powerhouse guest list. The club meets once a month and focuses exclusively on Filipino-authored books. All meetings are moderated by Tara FT Sering.

To cap off the afternoon’s events, at 5 PM, Anvil Publishing will be hosting a poetry reading featuring selected poets from their notable roster of writers: Teo Antonio, Marra Lanot, Pete Lacaba, Sarge Lacuesta, Mookie Katigbak, Angelo Suarez, and Virgilio Almario. (I think Vim Nadera might be coming as well along with Ruel de Vera).

Romina Gonzalez will also be coming for the book discussion of “Welostit.” Tara FT Sering will moderate.

As you can see, the July 2007 meeting is a sponsored and co-hosted meeting with other book groups and publishing houses. We’re trying to develop a new template for book meetings which will encourage interactivity between writers, readers, critics, publishers and bookstores. This is the first time we’re doing this so we’ve been fumbling and stumbling as usual — the object(s) of our clumsiness would know what we’re talking about — but hopefully we can improve on it in future meetings to come.

team7Spread the word. XD Just um point them to the weblog: here or to the website of Ang Bagong Libro. Thanks!

When: September 2, 2007 (Sunday)
Where: Manila International Book Fair (World Trade Center)
Organized by: Read or Die / Ang Bagong Libro

Guidelines for Qualification

- All characters portrayed must originate from literary works. Characters that have originally come from anime, animated cartoons, video games, table-top games, television shows, and movies — even those that have book adaptations or novelizations, are officially disqualified.

- Costumes must be tasteful and cover appropriate areas of the body. Absolutely no live weapons will be allowed as props. Fire works and messy props (i.e. confetti, fake blood, smoke bombs) are also not allowed.

- The competition organizers reserve the right to disqualify any entry that they consider to be unsuitable, inappropriate, or irrelevant for any reason.

- Failure to comply with any rule, as well as disregarding written and verbal instructions from the Cosplay Team and the competition organizers, will result in the disqualification of the participant from the competition.

( Rules )

team7It's for Issue 4 (ISSUE 4 OMG) of India and The Conundrum XD I want to feature Eve's engaging Elegy Of The Willow Sword for the upcoming issue. The deadline isn't until July 30 so if you volunteer now (please~~), I can send you the draft for the upcoming chapter. All we need is a cover illustration + a sketch or illustration for the serial itself.

In the meantime, please enjoy redplasticglass's lovely cover art for Issue 3, which features izkariote's story, the very interesting "Endtimes".

I'm really enjoying the stories running in the magazine and I'm happy that all the writers are still submitting and I'm especially grateful to magicnoire, sub_divided and yukitsu for agreeing to help me with the actual editing. Let's all keep going :)

And to everyone else: If you have a story you'd like to serialize, go ahead and submit~

team7I got sick again and was in and out of the hospital last week (it wasn't that serious but there was some familial drama involved, so). When I recovered somewhat, my first priority was to attend to required papers and organizational commitments. This meant that I could not update Maybe Sparrow or even work on the reading list for Issue 3 :( I'm really sorry about this. I'll post Issue 2 within two days--I'm coding everything now--and push back the deadline for Issue 3. The theme is a good one too: Alternate Histories.

Anyway I think I'll need a co-editor. Don't worry, I'll still do my share of the work and update the website (on time next issue, I promise), but I really will appreciate some help in managing reading lists. What I mean is: As a co-editor, all you have to do is devise a reading list for a particular theme and post it to maybesparrows at least a month before the deadline of the next issue. We'll alternate. Any takers? XD;

Also have a few things coming up. Let's put up that fake publishing firm already so we can have a revolving ah staff. ^^; Or not.

I haven't been paying much attention to fandom-related activities for a while now, but of course I can't not pimp fst_redux, for FST reposts/requests for re-uploads of previously posted FSTS. hemlocke is a genius--I never thought of doing something like this, even when I kept getting metaphorically bonked over the head for not having a system where people could keep track of old FSTs. Anyway, if you missed certain FSTs and would like to see them re-uploaded (hopefully, maybe), go to fst_redux.

team7I'm sorry, all I do these days is post announcements, don't I? Please be patient with me. I do have fic written out and things-to-post but I've been sort of eaten alive by grad school, editing and writing duties and lots and lots of events. Things.

Anyway: Read Or Die will be hosting several functions and events at the 28th Manila International Book Fair. Our theme is Ang Bagong Libro and we’ll be focusing on new books, new writing, new writers, new literature, new forms of reading, and what the National Book Development Board calls the new literates. Planned activities include workshops, talks, contests, readings and a literary cosplay (you heard that right). We’ll also be participating in events organized by other groups and institutions, such as the Pistang Panitik 2007 by the UP Institute Of Creative Writing. Please bookmark the website to keep updated.

One of our events--well, it's not really an event, more like an integral part of the program, is the presence of indie publishers at the Manila Book Fair. With permission by the Book Development Association Of The Philippines and the National Book Development Board, Read Or Die is inviting independent and small press publishers to sell their books (including comics, folios, magazines and chapbooks) at the 28th Manila International Book Fair. All merchandise will be consigned at the booths of the National Book Development Board and will be sold either by Read Or Die or NBDB staffers.

There is no selling fee and sellers will not be required to pay a commission. If you want to sell, all you have to do is fill out this form and turn over one copy of each of your works to the National Book Development Board.

Furthermore, Read Or Die requests that you register (also for free) with the Koop, a network of indie publishers which will publish joint catalogs, host book launches and workshops, and hold indie book fairs through Read Or Die, the National Book Development Board and Libro.ph. Clicking the checkbox next to “Join Koop” will enable registration. There are no terms and conditions in joining except insofar as you will be invited to attend workshops, events and exhibits on or about independent publishing.

This is the first (and hopefully not the last) time this is happening, so if you've got something you want to sell (independently produced, that is), please fill out the form and tell your friends about it as well. The Book Fair routinely attracts at least 70,000 people on its five-day run. Sayang!

I'll be selling bound copies of "Esme" during the fair as well as--maybe--a storybook of sorts. I think eisenkleid and miir will be selling too XDD What are you waiting for?

In the more immediate future: Read Or Die will also be participating in New Worlds Transformed, which will be held at the Power Plant Mall from July 9 to July 15. The New Worlds Alliance (NWA), an organization of fan groups focused primarily on fantasy, science fiction, horror and superheroes, will be holding exhibits and activities that showcase the various ways they show their love for their favorite shows, books and authors.

NWA kindly invited Read Or Die to host a couple of talks on July 14 (Saturday) and July 15 (Sunday). We’re not doing anything very formal but you are of course welcome to drop by and join our discussions.

July 14: “The Fan In Fandom” (Fanfiction typologies, the evolution of fandom communities in the Internet, and fandom conventions) 4-7 PM

July 15: “The Book and The Fan” (Transitioning Mediums: Mass Media And The Book; CategorizingThe Fantastic; Reading and Recommending Young Adult Fantasy) 4-7PM

Both talks will be held at Fully Booked, 4F, Power Plant Mall. Please come and say hello. We’ll also be accepting sign-ups for Verse, a fantasy, science fiction and genre writing group which will–eventually–be part of the Alliance.

PS: Visit Libro.ph!

team7Issue 3 is here. Illustrations by redplasticglass and a double-chapter update for ikzariote's "Endtimes." (The theme is based on Andrei Tarkovsky, a Russian filmmaker, hence the angels. And if I were to film Endtimes...)

Still on the lookout for illustrators! Planning to feature array_of_color's Elegy Of The Willow Sword in next month's issue (it's wuxia, it would be interesting to illustrate for a wuxia serial.)

PS: Deadline for Issue 2 of Maybe Sparrows is on July 9 :)

team7I have fic, fic recs and zines to post, but first:



Join Read Or Die at the Libro.ph soft launch on June 30, 2007 at 4PM at the “Portrait Of The City” exhibit at the Glorietta 3 Park.

Adarna House will also be on hand for a storytelling session for children.

This event is part of the 11th Philippine Book Development Month and is made possible by the National Book Development Board and the Filipinas Heritage Library.

FREE FOOD WILL BE SERVED. Or UCC Coffee, at least. And cakes.

Thanks to miir for designing the lovely poster. :)

PS: We'll be giving away CDs containing ebooks and texts. Punta kayo kthx.

team7(For L -- Where to reserve HP 7 in Manila).

Not another one of those posts--But it is!

Sorry, everyone. These things attach themselves to and feed on my brain and THEY DON'T LET GO.

(1) Quatre Gats was supposed to be an indie publishing firm, back when I still had a limited idea of how one could go about producing and marketing new fiction in the Philippine literary market (whatever there was of it). My ah horizons had expanded since then, RodCon ate up the budget for the press anyway, and it would be nicer if (I think!) instead of going at it alone, I could do it with other people XD; I've spent the past few weeks re-configuring the concept, with input by miir and redrivermix.

The Tropics Of Love anthology is still on but instead of generating submissions and printing the anthology in the usual manner (since I'm still prepping up the market c/o Read Or Die, what), I'd like to start something like an online multimedia... affair? So Quatre Gats would be something like a cross between a non-profit small press and a writers/artists collective. We can host ebooks by members online, but not in the form of the usual html or text downloads. What I mean is something like small, specially designed websites which present the stories in a creative--or at least dynamic--manner. Volunteer artists can provide the illustrations. This goes as well for books already in the public domain. Imagine a website crafted especially for "The Count Of Monte Cristo," for example, with new artwork or interlinear commentaries by writers. The websites don't necessarily have to be flashy, just effective and with a sensible aesthetic, and there's no reason why we can't arrange for PDF downloads. After creating the layout for Ladino, I've been experimenting with making compact, readable, and specially formatted PDF copies of old books to print out.

Furthermore I want to host the results of my challenges in Quatre Gats, like falsificatio and the transliteration challenge (which should push through). Tropics of Love is also a thematic challenge. Aside from working with challenges, we can also come up with some sort of publishing schedule, so it's fun XD;

Of course there's really no money here (at the moment), just the joy of creativity, of collaborating with other artists and writers, and of sharing things in general XD; If you're worried about protecting your work, we will be using a Creative Commons license as a whole, depending on what sort of protection you want.

If members wish to sell their stuff, I can set up an online shop for the purpose. miir and redrivermix are joining me. Any others? I should probably set up guidelines for joining or something but for now, it's pretty much open to anybody. Once you join you're under no pressure to produce, though it will sort of defeat the purpose of joining if you do not contribute at all. If you write, draw, or design websites, please give it a try.

(I still have to edit Quatre Gats to reflect this shift in direction but aesthetically it will remain the same. I love motorbike's design).

team7Issue 1 of Maybe Sparrow is up! :) It's been up since yesterday but I forgot to post about it here. So sorry, and thanks to the contributors for supporting the project. Issue 2 will focus on the works of Diana Wynne Jones. The reading list is here or you can sign up as a reviewer here.

Would also like to promote tendom (or Otaku Cultural Literacy <3 <3) The community is now re-watching "Princess Tutu." Everyone's welcome to join, tenebris plans to expand the program to include other anime series for re-watch. Great idea.

... kitsune_jade, embai and I were also talking about anime clubs. We started UP AME but it's a university club and the kids who came after us have done a fantastic job with it and should really be credited with turning it into what it is. I mean, a club for er old fogeys like us, which should also segue into Verse (that fantasy writing group for NWA). We even got to talking with a couple of guys about a possible sentai marathon (if that happens, we'll be sure to issue an open invite!) and sponsoring anime showings at Fandom Cafe (again, wait for an open invite).

You know, one of the things that's really fun about fandom is that you can do things together with other people based on shared interest and love for the source material. And most of the time, this can also extend to pleasure in each other's company, though--like I said--that's a bonus. There are fans who prefer to keep to themselves or who share fanwork with a small group and that's also fine (I guess I can qualify in this category by now. I've heard some people complaining about locked fic posts because they think that fanfiction should be open to the community. Well, I have a community, and that's the community of people who've read my fic for years and/or who decided to join this list and who stayed either out of curiosity or because they're bored. And this is actually the most permanent place I've stayed in for a while. I used to change sites and mailing lists like nobody's business up to about three years ago).

Anyway, my point is that while there are social control mechanisms which have been analyzed to death in metafandom, there is no such thing as a collective benefit or a collective detriment (well, aside from things like Strikethrough 2007). I start dozens of challenges and communities not because I feel that it would redound to some mystical fandom version of the common good, or that fandom needs it, or that I need or would benefit from it, but because I like sharing ideas and I'm confident that at least a couple of people would be interested too and it would be much more fun if we er volted in and see how the results turned out. Once you get an idea out into the marketplace, what happens after is often the most interesting part of the entire process.

That's what's so great about fandom for me--the fact that always, always there are at least two other people interested (heck, one would do) and that they would cheerfully join in whatever project, doesn't matter who started which. There's always a little bit of creative anarchy on the loose, like jazz, even in the smallest (or most formal) of fandom arrangements, so when you start worrying about advancing fandom, or strengthening fandom, or taking care of fandom, or whatever fandom, you lose the pleasurable anarchic aspect in favor of something like churlish appropriation. Fandom can't be appropriated, I think. Even at the height of Strikethrough 2007, when the popular perception was that fandom was being attacked as an institution, I thought that the problem was ultimately going to be logistical, i.e., how would I find my flist again if we have to leave Livejournal as a matter of principle? Or during the mess involving Fanlib, in which the protest was IMO purely on an ideological level and did not impact at all on fans' actual capacity to write and produce fanfic. Because nobody can stop it (or us), I swear.

team7Okay, while updating Maybe Sparrow with Issue 1 I accidentally deleted my own review which I'd uploaded a couple of weeks ago and the soft copy of which is stored in my cousin's computer, where I wrote it, and now I can't contact him). Ahh. I don't think I can re-write the review from scratch--and I enjoyed doing it too--and we're already a week late as it is. Not that anyone's really keeping track, but since all the reviewers are now all accounted for... =_= I'll just finish writing the introductory post and we're all set to go.

miir over at the RoD blog talks about loving and living with one's books.

... I'm seriously close to spamming that blog myself, I think. I've been going through my lj(s), notebooks and assorted other blog entries and I keep running across literary and book-related posts which, with a little editing, could do for content. Everyone else should do the same XD;

Speaking of bloggish exhumations, here: cocoro.typepad.com. I used to talk about starting a meme where people would dig into their archives and come up with a list of their--in their opinion--'best' or 'most interesting' posts, with a view towards constructing a sort of accidental literary narrative of their lives. While I won't say that the entries in cocoro are my best ever, I do think that team7 is up for sorting and archival. I don't use tags and the last time I updated my memories was three years ago and I've been on lj for six years. team7 is friends-locked and it'll stay that way but there are entries which I think can be safely deposited to posterity.

I think a few of my friends on lj have started blogging in Wordpress and Typepad, too. If you do have a Wordpress or a blogging account apart from LJ, please comment so I can link you XD That is, if you don't mind.

The entries archived so far are ca. 2002-2003, so I still have a lot of ground to cover. I... talk a lot. Anything related to books or literature that I have written or will write will go to this blog.

The typepad account has actually been existing for some time--a gift from my cousin Trina--but I've not really worked on it. It was originally supposed to be a blog for Org13.org, but I'm redesigning Org13 now, and a specific batch of entries will go there. More on this later.

I still have an awful lot of fandom-related entries to post since I used to review series and even meta quite a lot (still do, or am slowly getting back into the habit). Anyone want to join me on a sort of collective fandom blog? I don't have the time yet to do that blogging platform for fannishly.org and it seems that people are already getting their own Wordpress accounts. So how about--as I said--a collective blog instead? You can write new entries or, alternatively, archive/re-post old fandom-related entries (reviews, meta, memes) posted to your lj to the collective blog. It'll be like RSS/Wayback. Tell me if you're interested. We can set it up in Wordpress in a snap -- maybe fannishly.org/blog/? Or just use fannishly.org as the blog address?

Also: What to call it?

team7Will post Part 2 of the Holmes story in a bit as well as the first issue of Maybe Sparrow.

Accepting sign-ups for Issue 2 (Diana Wynne Jones) here. Please. Volunteer. Thanks.

While I'm talking about deadlines and sign-ups, imaginarybeasts is now accepting submissions for Book 4: Heatwave :)

I haven't really had time to read fic lately but tomomichi has posted a bunch of Ugly Betty recs here. FTR I'm an unabashed Daniel/Betty fan. This is probably because I watched the original telenovela (and subsequent incarnations) devotedly and so it doesn't matter if you set the series in New York or in Mexico City, I can only see Armando and Betty with each other though re: Ugly Betty, I'm probably in the minority ^^; Anyway, in addition to Becky's recs (and assuming you like the pairing), I also recommend samirant's Fishbowl series.

Over at fanthology, the long fic rec challenge is wrapping up. sesame_seed has particularly great contributions. (I should really buck up and help out in the comm, especially since sub_divided has been doing more than she should. Will get to work on that online zine version).

Also: giyenah has a really nice entry about her obsession with secondhand books in the Read Or Die blog. Comment with your favorite haunts. XD

team7Oh yeah, so well, another one of My Projects. =_= I am sorry. You should know that I am on a year-long sabbatical from work to attend grad school so I had decided to devote the intervening time between hitting up archives for research to get serious work done on My Projects.

Anyway, I touched on this here. I wasn't exactly planning a fanfic archive and with the advent of otw_news it seems almost superfluous to do something of the sort anyhow. But the domain needs to be used and anyhow I'm experimenting with a lot of things this year.

Poll #996756 fannishly.org
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24

What sort of content/service(s) would you like to see in fannishly.org?

Re: blog service -- Please check preferred features

Further suggestions, please comment.

*Note: By 'hosting fan challenges' I meant of the sort that I used to throw around in this place -- falsificatio, mile-long pole challenge, even that never-launched series of fanthology compilations I planned with sub_divided could be archived here. And if you've got your own project/challenge and you'd like to run it in a sort of community environment that is not Livejournal, or just archive it someplace period, fannishly.org could host you.

As for blogs -- Will be running it on a multi-blog platform based on Wordpress, but that's only one alternative. I'm nearly done setting up a blogging service for Filipino literary bloggers for Libro.ph and it would probably end up running concurrently with fannishly.org. Anyhow, the set-up would be as if you had your blog hosted in Wordpress.com, only it would be accessed using fannishly.org/username or username.fannishly.org, and as admin I'll be deciding which features/plug-ins/themes to integrate (hence the poll). Nothing beats Livejournal, I agree, but this would tie in with creating that content recs engine and select RSS aggregator and Wordpress is at that stage of development where you could comfortably simulate, customize and extend other available blogging environments according to your own needs and qualifications. Coupled with open source CMS, the entire package could go some way.

team7Randomly

I was going to make another fandom recs post while I have time but all my bookmarks are stored in the laptop and am using my desktop. So, tomorrow.

In the meantime:

Issue 3 of imaginarybeasts is out!! With a gorgeous cover by redplasticglass. I am liking the table of contents. Go read and comment, if you please.

Another notable zine for fantasy stories: Unlined edited by newredshoes (linked by redplasticglass and lacewood).

If you've got a yen for handmade/handbound/quirky notebooks: Take a look at this selection by Chronicle Books (link c/o redplasticglass). I'm a paper--fetishist, I guess you could call it, so one of these days I intend to post an intensively geeky write-up about the precious paper, notebooks, and related impedimenta. In the meantime: Notebookism, for pretty much all your notebook needs.

I know someone in this flist makes notebooks but I'm afraid to venture a guess. ^^;

I'm pretty sure everyone must have seen this already but just in case you haven't joined: fandomcount. Be counted, if only for statistical purposes (I like that), and honestly, you never know when something like Strikethrough 2007 would happen again. On that note, since I presume that everyone has also read the posts by liz_marcs and catrinella summarizing the entire fracas, here's an interesting take by rabbitprint on the subject, especially as regards the question of dissonance in one's creative work.

(I don't usually write incest or pornography or any of the contested interests, not because they go against my moral sensibilities, but because I don't really have an urge to do so, story-wise. But if the urge does strike, I probably won't blink an eye. Would I censor myself? No. My responsibility as an author would be to warn my audience of what follows after the cut. Other people might do it for the sake of provoking their readers, to generate shock value, and I see nothing wrong with that either.)

Reminders

Deadline for submitting reviews for the first round of Maybe Sparrow is on June 9 XD I've already finished reading Diane Setterfield's "The Thirteenth Tale" and Arthur Rollins' "The Egyptologist" and am finishing up "Book of Air and Shadow" and "Ex Libris." Sign-up post/review guidelines. Forget the deadline. If you suddenly decided you want to review one of the books listed, and you have read or can finish reading it by June 9, go ahead and sign up.

The downside to reading books about books and bookish people is that it fills one with the seemingly uncontrollable erm desire to acquire... books. It's worse than subliminal advertising because it's unintentional. The writer's goal is to get the reader to read the story and not to buy books which would distract them from the reading. But I can't help it. The writer launches off on a description of a character's study or workroom, lingering, for effect, on piles of paper, catalogs and newly delivered books on some table or the other, and my first instinct is to run out to the nearest bookshop or, worse, to do some pointing and clicking at Amazon.com. Maybe it's just me though. I don't know if I feel the need to compete with fictional characters re: how many books we respectively have, or if it's just another level of a visceral sensory experience. Possibly the latter. It's like you're listening to a person who is narrating the process of eating a cheeseburger, and by the middle of it (or sooner), you want to get a cheeseburger of your own too.

... Now I want a cheeseburger (I haven't had one in a while). WTF. At this rate, I can probably hypnotize my dumb self into buying machine guns and helicopters while reading Rambo novelizations.

team7It's here, with a new layout and illustrations by eisenkleid for tarigwaemir's "Via Misadventure":

India and The Conundrum, Issue 2.

Special thanks go to magicnoire and sub_divided for lending their editing skillz :) yukitsu, so sorry, the writer failed to submit hernew draft on time ^^;; Next month?

And anyone here who'd like to illustrate the cover for Issue 3? The cover illustration is eisenkleid's colored artwork for "Via Misadventure" (alternating with a photograph of another 'girl with odd eyes' -- just keep reloading). For the next issue, the illustrator doing the cover could choose another serial. Heck, do "Scaramouche" *points below*

Have also decided to start serializing novels in the public domain, just because XD First title is Rafael Sabatini's swashbuckling bestseller "Scaramouche: A Romance Of The French Revolution" (anyone here read it? It's been referenced in novels from Arturo Perez Reverte's "Club Dumas" to Ellen Kushner's "Swordspoint").

Links follow with the table of contents or you can just go straight to the magazine. "Endtimes" and "Narratives" are on break and will be back next issue. :)

( India and The Conundrum, Issue 2 )