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Wildside Press has moved. They can now be reached at 9710 Traville Gateway Drive #234, Rockville, MD 20850. The phone number is 301-762-1305.
Comics publisher Runemaster Studios has teamed up with Phoenix, Arizona, retailer Samurai Comics in an effort to get comic books into kids' hands. Together with the Phoenix area libraries, they've started the Comic Book Exchange program. With their donation of several hundred comics, they jump-started the revolving plan whereby kids can trade in comics they've read for comics they haven't, keeping an ever-changing supply circulating throughout the system. Runemaster writer Mike Bullock came up with the idea when his Lions, Tigers, and Bears was chosen by the Arizona Library systems for their Summer Reading Program. Samurai owner Mike Banks started offthe program by giving the first fifty children in the door free sets of the entire Lions, Tigers, and Bears miniseries. Daphne Purchase, Children's Librarian at the Avondalc. Arizona branch library, said the children were at first confused about whether they'd have to pay for the comics, "but once we explained to them how it worked, they've just been all abuzz with excitement over this program." Knowing that not all comics are for everyone. Samurai and Runemaster made sure the program was stocked with a diverse number of titles and genres, including super heroes, fantasy, science fiction, and Manga. More in tonnât ion on the Arizona Public Libraries Summer Reading programs can be found at http://156.42.5.97/POLARIS/; Runemaster is on the web at www.runemasterstudios.com, and Samurai's site is www.samuraicomics.com.
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Fred Saberhagen has been diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He's in the process of getting it stabilized. When asked if there is a medical fund to help pay the costs to which fans can contribute, he said that "Right now, there's no fund in existence that I know about. Mcd costs are still uncertain." Saberhagen's web site is www.berserker.com.
Lawrence Person won a "miscellaneous honorable mention" in this year's Bulwer-Lytton bad prose competition. Hosted by San Jose State University, and named after the author who originated "It was a dark and stormy night," the annual competition awards prizes for the worst opening sentences to existent or non-existent novels. Person's entry was "Inside his cardboard box, Greg heated a dented can of Spaghctti-O's...