DargonZine
Volume 15, Number 1 |
Distributed: 3/9/2002
Circulation: 737 |
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DargonZine is the publication vehicle of the
Dargon Project, a collaborative group of aspiring fantasy writers on the
Internet. We welcome new readers and writers interested in joining the
project. Please address all correspondence to
<dargon@dargonzine.org>
or visit us on the World Wide Web at http://www.dargonzine.org/, or our FTP site at
ftp://users.primushost.com/members/d/a/dargon/.
Issues and public discussion are posted to newsgroup
rec.mag.dargon.
DargonZine 15-1, ISSN 1080-9910, (C) Copyright March, 2002
by the Dargon Project. Editor: Ornoth D.A. Liscomb
<ornoth@rcn.com>,
Assistant Editor: Jon Evans
<godling@covad.net>.
All rights reserved. All rights are reassigned to the individual
contributors. Stories and artwork appearing herein may not be reproduced
or redistributed without the explicit permission of their creators, except
in the case of freely reproducing entire issues for further distribution.
Reproduction of issues or any portions thereof for profit is forbidden.
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Editorial
ell, I have to tell you, it's good to be back! For those of you
who didn't notice, it's been eleven weeks since our last issue came out,
back on December 21st. That's the longest lag we've had between issues
since 1996!
Well, it's been an eventful three months, I must say. During the
last portion of 2001, we'd run out of stories to print, so we weren't
able to put out as many issues as we wanted, nor as frequently as we
would have liked. Then, over the holidays, we took our usual end-of-year
hiatus to step back and look at our goals for the coming year. And just
as soon as we got through that, we suffered a catastrophic hard drive
crash that made it impossible to put out issues until now.
But now the goalsetting is done, the pipeline of submissions is
looking much healthier, our hardware has been replaced, and our files
restored, so we're ready to get back to work printing stories for you!
But before I let you jump into the issue, let me tell you about a
couple other changes that also took place while we were away.
First, there have been some great enhancements to the Web site. Our
"New Readers' Introduction to Dargon" page has been completely
rewritten, making it more organized and more up-to-date. And our new
"Map Room" page features five brand new maps, which are available both
as flat images as well as Javascript-based annotated versions.
Most of those enhancements were driven by Carlo Samson, our
longtime illustrator and cartographer, who joined the project way back
in 1986. Unfortunately, Carlo recently decided to move on, and we wish
him lots of success in his future endeavors. We'll be trying to find
other sources of illustrations for future issues.
Finally, you may notice that as of this issue, we have a new email
address: <dargon@dargonzine.org>. This long-overdue change will allow us
to have a single email address that won't have to be altered every time
we change Internet service providers.
That's all the news for this issue, save for celebrating the fact
that this is the first issue in our 18th season online. As you can see,
we've had some ups and downs in the recent past, but we fully plan to
continue our mission of helping aspiring writers develop their craft,
and sharing the results with you.
This issue pairs up one of our founders, Jim Owens, with our newest
writer, Dave Fallon. It's very fulfilling to be able to reward a new
writer's enthusiasm and hard work by publishing his or her first story
in DargonZine. Dave's been great to work with, and he brings a lot of
energy to the group. His "Baern and the Magic Ball" is paired up with
the conclusion of Jim Owens' fascinating "The Measure of His Love",
Jim's 22nd story to appear in DargonZine. I'm sure you'll enjoy them
both.
And rest assured that you won't have to wait three months for
DargonZine 15-2 to arrive! We've already begun production, and expect to
distribute the issue in early April. It will feature a major new work
from P. Atchley, and the wonderful conclusion of Victor Cardoso's "Jakob
Sings of Monstrous Things". So we'll see you again in just a couple
weeks. Or, as they say in Dargon, "sennights"!
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