Posted by Terry on 7/11/2001, 4:41 pm
Administration

We have achieved message board! My apologies for the banner ads--I just didn't have the oomph to set up an ASP-based board, although that may come in a few months, depending on how much people use this one. Feel free to start topic threads. Talk about fantasy, reading, writing, or anything else that crosses your mind. Let me know what you think of the Website or the book. I'll seed the discussion whenever I can, and I'll use this Colorful Username of Omnipotence to post announcements now and then (and if it becomes necessary to do any sysopping, which I highly doubt). Hmm, I haven't launched this site yet, so it occurs to me that right now I'm talking to myself. But I hope you'll help rectify that as soon as all the links go live. So: Welcome!

Posted by Speedo on 8/1/2001, 7:59 pm, in reply to "The books exist!"

Wow. I just received my copy yesterday -- Amazon.com is good for some things. And then I couldn't put it down! It's your fault I'm wrecked today, but it was well worth it. I have to mull it over awhile to say anything intelligent, other than that it was beautiful, and surprising, and wonderful, and sad. And I can't wait for the next two!

Posted by Terry on 8/1/2001, 9:59 pm, in reply to "Re: The books exist!"

Holy cow--you *read the whole book already*? I'm speechless. [space here to indicate moments of speechlessness] I don't know whether I'm more flattered that you couldn't put it down, or awed at your reading speed. I opened this page while I was checking site links, not expecting to see new messages, and now I'm sitting here with my mouth hanging open. That is so cool! Thank you for the compliment!! Speedo indeed! [g]

Posted by Terry on 7/25/2001, 1:15 pm

I was pleasantly surprised to get my copies of the October issue of *Realms of Fantasy* yesterday. I had no idea the magazine had such a long lead time! When they scheduled "Limnery in Cursive" for that issue, I thought, Oh, cool, *Illumination* will be out by then. But the October magazine beat the August book to the shelves! "Limnery" is a prequel to *Illumination*, but the two can be read in either order, and the characters do cross over to some extent. I drafted the story while I was writing the book, and it came as a discovery to me, adding an extra dimension to the novel which I hadn't outlined in. I love when that happens. Hope you enjoy!

Posted by Speedo on 7/30/2001, 4:06 pm, in reply to "Limnery in Cursive"

Hi, I tried accessing this through your main site, but the link doesn't seem to work. Drat. Hopefully yours, S

Posted by Terry on 7/30/2001, 7:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Limnery in Cursive"

Argh! It was down when I put the link up (http://www.scifinow.com/, as it appears on the front of the magazine), but I went ahead in the hope that they were just in the midst of file maintenance or something. But I see that the site's still not working...and the publisher's site, http://www.sovereignmedia.com/, is still a placeholder. I hope they get it up and running soon. Racking brain to think where else it could be ordered online...will post here if I come up with anything...

Posted by Reviewbot on 9/4/2001, 8:42 pm, in reply to "Limnery in Cursive"

Reviewed by Debbie Ledesma at Fantasy Worlds. http://suite101.com/article.cfm/3080/78445

Posted by Terry on 8/9/2001, 12:15 am

Hooray! Preordered Amazon and B&N copies have been delivered, library orders have been fulfilled, and store sightings have been reported by people in chat and newsgroup. (Feel free to post sightings here. I love this stuff. )

Posted by Vera on 8/12/2001, 5:48 am, in reply to "*Illumination* is in stores"

Hey, Teryr! Gorgeous website, and I cannot wait to read my copy of ILLUMINATION! I just placed an order for it at Amazon. :-)))) :-) Vrea

Posted by Terry on 8/12/2001, 11:03 pm, in reply to "Re: *Illumination* is in stores"

Woo! Glad to hear it, Vrea! Can't wait to find out what you think of it.

Posted by Vera on 8/15/2001, 6:04 pm, in reply to "Re: *Illumination* is in stores"

And Amazon says it's been shipped! WOOHAAAAWW! ;-) Vi

Posted by Vera on 8/15/2001, 6:27 pm

Do you know that the word "myr" means "world" and also "peace" in Russian? *grin* Vi

Posted by Terry on 8/16/2001, 12:46 am, in reply to "Many Meanings of Eiden Myr"

That is so neat, Vi! I knew that "mir" meant "world," and I remember you posting once that the title "War and Peace" was probably an inaccurate translation of what should have been "War and the World," which fascinated me. But I never made the connection to the word spelled with a "y." That's quite lovely, and amazingly appropriate.

Posted by Terry on 8/28/2001, 7:16 pm

Hope to see some of you at the Millennium Philcon this coming weekend, and at Coppercon the weekend after that (September 7-9). I've posted my programming schedules in The Codices section of the site. Both cons should be a blast!

Posted by Terry on 8/29/2001, 9:34 am

Today is the publication date of Illumination! Woo! I know it's been available for a month already, but I just had to mark the occasion anyway.

Posted by Terry on 9/25/2001, 11:09 pm

Just saw that Illumination is a Buyer's Pick for September at Stacey's Bookstore in the San Francisco area. Neat! Here's the URL: http://www.staceys.com/favorites/buyerspicks.html