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Bill Ward
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  		   Posted 5/21/2008 6:42 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Good on you David, I know how tedious, yet how vital, that job is; good to know FS has someone reliable doing it.

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Thanks, folks.
Jared, I very much enjoyed working with you. Wonderful storytelling!
Jason & CW, pleasure working with you.
I was meaning to brag on the mag, not on the man . . . but thanks for the kudos 8-)

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von Darkmoor said...
Cool! Thank you David, for all your hard work on ensuring FS delivers an excellent product!

For any one who's never been there, 60 hours at anything is phenomenal dedication - at copy editing is simply stunning! A standing ovation for Mr. Pitchford is long overdue.


Yep. I echo Jason's comments. I'm extremely grateful, David, for all your work and effort. I really appreciate it and count on your skills to make sure what we put in print is the best it can be. Thank you for agreeing to be part of our team.
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Jared Evers
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  		   Posted 5/19/2008 1:10 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'll second that ovation! I can easily say that Mr. Pitchford's talents and insights were invaluable to me. *bows*

And I also would like to say that I'm extremely proud to be a part of this issue. From what I've read so far it not only lives up to the hype, it exceeds my expectations.
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  		   Posted 5/19/2008 11:19 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Cool! Thank you David, for all your hard work on ensuring FS delivers an excellent product!

For any one who's never been there, 60 hours at anything is phenomenal dedication - at copy editing is simply stunning! A standing ovation for Mr. Pitchford is long overdue.

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I put in about 60 hours this past week doing copy edits on this . . .

Why did it take so long? Because it's SOSOSOSOSO amazingly excellent! Seriously. I'd been over much of the content before and was familiar with much of it. Despite that, I was wonderfully enchanted and enthralled with everything in there. It is such a rich tapestry of diverse stories. From pirates to gladiators to duelists . . . phenomenal story telling throughout. I feel like I spent the weekend running around the globe - from the sea to the desert and beyond. I can still taste the salt, smell the brine, and hear the echoes of fell chants, screams of swords, blasts of a couple blunderbusses, and the distinct hiss of arrows driving through to carve history into the Victors' names . . . and vice versa turn  

It is manifestly obvious to me why this extra issue HAD to be released.

Now . . . back to my own writing for a couple days . . . humbled by never daunted, and most definitely inspired! 

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  		   Posted 5/4/2008 5:55 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Very nice cover.  I really like the bleak background.  It fits perfectly with the struggle in the foreground, and what looks to be the start of a killing blow.  :-)
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J.F. Keeping
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  		   Posted 5/4/2008 1:23 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes, I have to agree the cover is great.  Very dynamic.  You don't see many close-in shots like that in this kind of art.
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  		   Posted 5/4/2008 12:39 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
:) Thanks, Jordan. Miko really did a fantastic job on that cover.

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Jordan Lapp
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  		   Posted 5/4/2008 12:34 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Amazing cover and some great names, CW!

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  		   Posted 5/4/2008 12:31 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I thought maybe everyone would like a look at the cover. So here it is:

cyberwizardproductions.googlepages.com/scpreview.jpg

Just a reminder:

This special issue goes on sale June 1.
It will NOT be available to read on the website. You'll need to purchase a print copy (from Lulu) or a .pdf copy (from FS home page)
Final word count total is 97K
Poems, short stories, articles, fantastic illustrations and a complete novella.
You get a free, 11x17 full color poster if you email me the Lulu receipt for your purchase.

You want this issue.
It goes off sale Sept 30

There will not be any back issues, so do not procrastinate or you'll miss out.

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J.F. Keeping said...
Jared Evers said...
I'd say just right.  Though hopefully our stories won't be fighting one another in the cool shade of the magazine, but working together to, say, fight a pack of lions or something instead.
Lions are an endangered species.  Can we fight orcs instead?  There are always too many of them around in heroic fantasy.
We can compromise and fight Wargs...or whatever those things were in The Two Towers. 
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Jared Evers said...
I'd say just right.  Though hopefully our stories won't be fighting one another in the cool shade of the magazine, but working together to, say, fight a pack of lions or something instead.
Lions are an endangered species.  Can we fight orcs instead?  There are always too many of them around in heroic fantasy.
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I'd say just right.  Though hopefully our stories won't be fighting one another in the cool shade of the magazine, but working together to, say, fight a pack of lions or something instead.
 
I think I got lost in my own metaphor there.  Oh well, it conjures exciting images.  I'm running with it.   :-)
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crystalwizard said...
summer is a long, hot, dry time when people need some exciting entertainment, don't you think?

Uh Oh.  Maybe I have the wrong opening line....or is it just right?
 
 
 
Regardless, I thank Nik for the compliment on it.    :-)
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von Darkmoor said...
Really? And here I thought it was just so we could get some more Johnney Perkins art. Hmm. Goes to show what I know VIEW IMAGE


Johnney's doing the cover for our August issue, btw and some illos inside it ;)
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Really?  And here I thought it was just so we could get some more Johnney Perkins art.  Hmm. Goes to show what I know devil

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erazmus said...
Our thinking was-- we got too much good stuff to cram into four issues this year! We could just skim off the cream, we _did_ just skim off the cream, still too much for four issues. We could fill up and just let a bunch go elsewhere, to flat rate markets who nobody ever remembers, but we thought these tales deserved to be featured. We could have expanded to a bi monthly schedual, but then we considered that the staff had lives once, and S-O's who'd like to see us occassionally, so we comprimised-- a special summer issue! More stories for you, not too much more work for us.
At least thats how I remember it.

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That's a very nicely worded explanation of several emails and quite a bit of discussion, Mike :) Yes, that's what our thinking was.
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Our thinking was-- we got too much good stuff to cram into four issues this year! We could just skim off the cream, we _did_ just skim off the cream, still too much for four issues. We could fill up and just let a bunch go elsewhere, to flat rate markets who nobody ever remembers, but we thought these tales deserved to be featured. We could have expanded to a bi monthly schedual, but then we considered that the staff had lives once, and S-O's who'd like to see us occassionally, so we comprimised-- a special summer issue! More stories for you, not too much more work for us.
At least thats how I remember it.

Mike

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so we're a long, tall, cool drink in the hand, see? and anudder thing - who's you to be questionin' da boss, eh?

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summer is a long, hot, dry time when people need some exciting entertainment, don't you think?

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Here be a question: What is the reasoning behind the special summer issue?
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crystalwizard said...
The cover's not done yet :( The cover's only a sketch at the moment.

I can send you a file for a Return of the Sword flier, I can send you one for Flashing Swords in general flier. And you can hand out something with excerpts from your story perhaps?
Okay, just send me what you have. You have my email. Thanks :)
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J.F. Keeping said...
I'm going to Ad Astra, Canada's biggest literary sf/f con next weekend and I'd like to promote the summer special, especially since I'm in it. Do you have a cover illustration or something that I could print and hand out? I'm afraid it's a little last-minute to get anything to me by snailmail.


The cover's not done yet :( The cover's only a sketch at the moment.

I can send you a file for a Return of the Sword flier, I can send you one for Flashing Swords in general flier. And you can hand out something with excerpts from your story perhaps?
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J.F. Keeping said...
I'm going to Ad Astra, Canada's biggest literary sf/f con next weekend and I'd like to promote the summer special, especially since I'm in it. Do you have a cover illustration or something that I could print and hand out? I'm afraid it's a little last-minute to get anything to me by snailmail.

I've sent you a PM.

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