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What's New at the YardFright Eater -- Perfect bound is here! Fairy Brew Ha-Ha in the Lucky Nickel Saloon by Ken Rand with a cover by Brad Foster.
Still Coming from the Yard in 2008... New perfect-bound edition Gang Approval with a new covers by Jon Kalin. Serpent Singer and Other Stories, by M.H. Bonham, a collection of stories set in the same universe as Prophecy of Swords and Runestone of Teiwas. The cover is by Mitch Bentley. Also... Chains of Redemption, the third book in the Chains series by Selina Rosen. Yes, this is the book that never made it out from Meisha Merlin. Bain Books has all three in Ebooks, but this will be the matching book to complete the set for those of you who like to have the full, matching set. We will even be using the original cover by Charles Keegan.
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Yard Dog News July News -- Nowhere near on time! Selina Rosen has sold several new short stories this year—six so
far—and is working on the re-write of Jabone’s
Sword, the sequel to Sword Masters, which
Dragon Moon has asked to see. She and Laura
Underwood are back to work on M.H. Bonham says, “Wolfsong Publications, a small publisher, is publishing a short novel of mine called The King’s Champion. It’s available through http://www.lulu.com/content/2717838. It’s a Kalena and Romarin story that is set about 50 years before Prophecy of Swords. We have the full timeline of stories in the universe and the links for purchasing said books in this book. It includes my three Yard Dog Press books and my Dragon Moon Press novel.” Rhonda Eudaly
will be participating in Lazy Dragon Con in Glenn Sixbury will be going to Conestoga in July. Linda Dunn
reports that her daughter's first book will be published by Wiley Press, available to
pre-order from all major book stores. KNOCK DOWN KNITS: 30 Knitting Projects from the Roller Peter Bradley will be at TrollKon in Berry
Kercheval is going to be on programming at Westercon and he sold a short story,
"Witch's Brew," to Robin Wayne
Bailey has sold a short story, "The Price of Beauty," to We are happy to be able to report that Diana Bailey is recovering steadily from the effects of the stroke she suffered at the end of May. Melanie Fletcher's short story "Lusts of the Cat Queen: A Dash Manning Adventure" will appear in Helix SF (http://www.helixsf.com) this July. "Lusts" is an homage to the classic Spaceman Hero SF of the 1950s, with just the tiniest little twist... K. E. Kimbriel plans to be at ArmadilloCon in August Gloria Oliver's story "Serving the Public" will appear in
the Tears of the And from Laura J. Underwood: Ever want to try an author, but unsure you
want to spend the money? Well, this gathering of the first three chapters of the novels
and novellas of fantasy author Laura J. Underwood is for you. It's a free download that
will allow you to sample her work and decide if you want to go on and buy her books.
Included in the sampler is publishing information and "where to buy." And if you
are so inclined, you can help the author by purchasing a print copy of this sampler. For
under ten bucks, this is a lot of great stories that will have you asking, "And Then
What Happened." And that’s it for July. Yard Dog Press
June News -- Almost on time! Selina
Rosen has sold three new short stories this year. The
first of these came out in Haunted Hearths &
Saphhic Shades just before Memorial Day weekend. The
anthology, from Lethe Press, consists of lesbian ghost stories, and Selina’s story is
“The Dyke You Know.” Here’s a link to check it out. She also sold a story, “Lost In the
Crowd,” to the Dragon*Con Anthology edited by Bill Fawcett, and “Queen of
Suburbia” to Selina
will be toastmaster at SoonerCon in Laura J. Underwood is
“experimenting” in selling reprinted material on Lulu.com. You can find
copies of her novellas Gather My Bones and Shadow Hart as well
as a collection of new and reprint short fiction titled The Wizard of Mushrooms by
going to her store at http://www.lulu.com/keltora. There is even a
free download of Shadow
Hart available on the site. Meanwhile, she would like to point
out to fans that there are still plenty of copies of her Yard Dog Press titles, Shadow Lord, Bogie Woods and Other Tales
of Conor Manahan, Chronicles of the Last War, Ard Magister and her latest
release Lunari Mask
(part of Double-Dog #4) available at the Yard Dog Press website (http://www.yarddogpress.com).
And don’t forget to check the Genre Mall for such titles as The Green Women
(Sam’s Dot Publishing) and Song of Silver (Dark
Regions Press). She is currently working on putting together a free downloadable
sampler of all her novels and novellas to put up on Lulu. She will be seen at
Conestoga in July, DragonCon in August/September and both Archon and Gaylaxicon in October
of 2008. Kathy Turski will be at SoonerCon in
June, and will be participating in her first panel discussions and have a reading. She has
no idea what she’ll read yet, but if pressed, she’ll bring along a copy of her
grandma’s cookie recipe. ‘Everyone loves grandma’s cookies’ she said.
Kathy will also be at FenCon in September, with or without cookies. She is still waiting
to hear from two magazines which are holding her pieces “under consideration”.
While it’s not an outright rejection, Kathy still wishes they’d just talk to her
about what they’re really feeling instead of bottling it up inside. Meantime, she is
on the caffeine-and-fingernail diet.
Dayton Ward has finally found yet another use for the volumes of useless Star Trek
knowledge rattling around in his head. Beginning in June and coinciding with the premiere
of Star Trek: The Next Generation on the Sci-Fi Channel, he’ll be providing content
for the channel’s website (www.scifi.com) in the
form of bi-weekly trivia games. The first quiz goes up on or around June 4th, with new
quizzes being posted every two weeks. Try out
your Trekkie Trivia Know-how! Meanwhile, K. Hutson
Price says, “I’ll
be at SoonerCon and ApolloCon in June. I’ve had two stories recently rejected
from Strange Horizons and a novel that’s FINISHED - except for the edits. Since
my last day of school is the first day of SoonerCon, I may be completely frazzled.
Please bear with me until normal (to me) thought patterns return.”
Rhonda Eudaly will be participating in SoonerCon in James
K. Burk says, “Yep, I
anticipate being at Soonercon, but not with bells on (kinda the wrong fashion statement
for me.) Still editing my new novel, working title: THE TWELVE. Got some
really great responses to it when I read the first three chapters at ConQuesT.” “Melanie Fletcher will be attending
A-Kon on May 30 - June 1 and Soonercon on June 6-8. In
addition, her new podcast “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” (http://dqydjpodcast.com), with Yard Doggie Jerry
Davis, is going great guns.”
Robin Wayne Bailey has sold “The Price of Beauty” to Katharine
Eliska Kimbriel is scheduled to attend Soonercon 2008, June 6th through 8th, 2008,
Oklahoma City, OK and Apollocon, June 27th to 29th, 2008 Houston, TX. Gary Jonas
will be at Soonercon in June, Conestoga in July and World Con in August. The option
on his screenplay “Any Last Requests” was just renewed. He’s
finishing up his novel Modern Sorcery and getting ready to tackle another novel as soon as
the revision is complete. His next publication will be in Best of the Bubbas of the
Apocalypse. Bennie
Grezlik will be at SoonerCon, June 6-8, and ApolloCon, June 27-29. As usual, Bennie
will write/produce a 30 minute Skip Thruster play for ApolloCon on Saturday night.
Watch for the first novel of Bennie’s SF trilogy, Gate World, to be released by
StoneGarden.net July 21. Bennie’s website is www.benniegrezlik.com. Julia
Mandala sold her story, “Valley Witch” to Witch Way to
the Mall, edited by Mel
Tatum writes, “Can’t resist sharing this - it’s the news story In
case you didn’t notice it in Melanie’s paragraph, Jerry Davis sent this: Yard
Doggies Melanie Fletcher and Lynn.
BOTA= Bubbas of
The Apocalypse
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Coming from the Yard in 2009... Ken Rand's novel, Rock
'n Roll Universe, to be released early in the year. There are several projects in the
works. Will keep you posted as new things develop.