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Fun launch last night! Thank you one and all who attended. We'll get some pics up soon. Here's a couple missives from those who didn't make it and wanted to:

"I am flying to Miami tomorrow, and I return end of July. I will miss
another launch. And I LOVED Far Arena! Ann's pregnant!! I love Perry
D'Aur's observation about Ann's understanding of Gelack culture. Horth
negotiating trade agreements, Dorn Earth ambassador, and Amel finally
ending the past for Erien and Ranar. I loved it, loved it."
- Elizabeth Woods

"While I am quite sure that we are not able to make it today I am more than happy to help you out with any future events if at all possible ... I hope that your thing goes well today!"
- Ash Larsen (Society for Creative Anachronism)

Also heard recently from ORU reader Rémi Després-Smyth who I will be sending a review copy of Part 5: Far Arena. And will be looking at Opus 4 work this weekend. Spoke with Opus 4 editor Sheila Flesher at the launch last night and introduced her to the two PG authors attending the launch. Oh, and ran into a contact of Elizabeth's in Quiznos yesterday who saw me reading Far Arena out loud to Tegan and said "I've read that book, it was good!". Turns out he's going to be teaching math and science in PG and is a sci fi fan. New contact met last night is Tyler, a reporter who is starting up a new journal for downtown distribution...if memory serves. Also renewed my acquaintance with John Bell of CFIS's story tellers program and was delighted to have Ann Tiffany and Jacklyn Baldwin among the attendees at the launch. Not to mention Catherine's Finnish contact and the young neighbour she's been telling me about. Nicole K. won the Pan-Demish Tournament. Nathalie Mallet won the "over 20" class which I figured is sort of a like the nobleborns. The McGees (Weston and Nicole) turned out and were game about wearing capes and taking part in the tournament. Much, much thanks to the usual suspects for setup and take down! Krysia, Angela, David, Tegan, Catherine! And to Margaret Johnson of Friends of the Library.

Labels: Elizabeth Woods, Part 5: Far Arena

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Many thanks to CKPG, Tegan Lott and Krysia Anderson for interview which ran on TV last night and is available on the internet (click the image or title of this entry). Launch for Part 5: Far Arena will be held tomorrow night, July 2, at the Prince George Public Library. Drop in at 6 pm for some sword training and to browse the art show. Short program to be held at 7 pm followed by the Pan-Demish Tournament where participants will compete for book prizes.

Labels: Book Launch, Part 5: Far Arena, Prince George Public Library

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Catherine posted this to her ORU stuff page on facebook with the following comment:

"I finally got enough of a mental pic of Amel to be able to draw him last night. It's from Far Arena when Alka lands on him, when he's wearing the blue t-shirt and shorts. He's on Rire on the common grass."

Labels: art, Catherine T. Vogt, facebook

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Feedback from Elizabeth Woods on Part 5: Far Arena
> I am so loving Far Arena! I am at the part where they have just
> arrived on Rire. You never fail to completely enrapture me. I am
> so glad tomorrow starts my summer - I can sit and read!

Elizabeth have volunteered to help my exterminate typos in Part 6: Avim's Oath by giving it a read-through. Jennifer Lott has also helped out on this front, and editor Richard Janzen will be doing the copy-edit this summer. Not certain of the release date yet, but hoping for winter 2010.

Labels: Elizabeth Woods, Far Arena, testimonial

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Catherine T. Vogt posted this update of the hearths of Fountain Court on facebook on an ORU stuff page. It shows the period circum Part 5: Far Arena. Catherine attends Saturday morning readings, where she's been exposed to draft passages of Part 6: Avim's Oath. The problematic hearths are Gold and Lilac/Blue Hearths. After Part 3: Pretenders, the question of who has what title among the Golden Demish gets thorny - Ev'rel and D'Therd stick handle things. But D'Therd's wife, Tara'n'eel (also D'Ander's half-sister) is the figure head. There's resistance to the idea from the Vestas, as plays out in Part 6: Avim's Oath and was glimpsed in the cranky behavior of Princess Chandra in Part 4: Throne Price. But this is how things stand after Part 4: Throne Price and before the end of Part 6: Avim's Oath.

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Working on details for the launch of Part 5: Far Arena and the Opus 3anthology. So far we have the following planned:

"Lynda Williams and friends will have a friendly, drop-in launch for Part 5: Far Arena of the Okal Rel Saga and Opus 3, third anthology of stories set in the Okal Rel Universe edited by Jennifer Sparling, on July 2, 2009 at 6 p.m. All welcome to drop by, look at art show, mix and mingle in an informal atmosphere. A short program of show and tell will feature including some audience participation fencing bouts with foam swords."

Labels: anthology, Jennifer Sparling, Opus 3, Prince George Public Library

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I am featured on the homepage of UNBC, today, with Part 5: Far Arena in hand.

Labels: Far Arena, UNBC

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