Sabledrake Magazine
November, 2003
This issue brought to by:
Feature Articles
The Ways of Magic, Pt. IV - VIII
Regular Articles
Resources
News
SHOOTING STAR COMICS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR CREATIVE TALENT
Expansion of company allows opportunity for writers and
artists to work on new projects
Shooting Star Comics will be on the lookout for both new talent and
veteran comic creators to showcase their work in future Shooting Star
Comics Anthologies and other special projects to be released over this
next year.
Editor-in-Chief, Sean Taylor, announced Monday that the Shooting Star
Comics Anthology has been placed on a quarterly schedule with the
addition of at least five other spin-off titles in the coming year. Truly,
this is an opportune time for expansion for the independent comic company
who plans to add other titles to the publishing schedule for select high
quality projects.
Taylor comments, "We're always looking for quality books to add to
the imprint under the guidelines laid out for what we're calling Project
Deputy. As to the specifics of what we're looking for, the sky's the
limit. We'll consider any genre, as long as it's done well, and any art
style from highly indy to commercial standards. Mainly, we are looking for
new voices with something fresh to say in graphic storytelling."
Shooting Star is also looking to expand their comic titles by acquiring
the rights to licensed multimedia properties and also hopes to cooperate
in joint ventures with other comic creators to revive
gone-but-not-forgotten fan favorite titles of the past. Other projects
being looked at will include publishing recognizable public domain
characters and allowing creators to publish their own imprint under the
Shooting Star Comics publishing house.
Shooting Star Comics also lists guidelines and provides submission forms
on the website (www.shootingstarcomics.com)
for submitting proposals and work for consideration.
For additional inquiries, please contact:
Scott McCullar, Creative Director
mccullar@shootingstarcomics.com
Shooting Star Comics
5665 Hwy. 9
Suite 103-140
Alpharetta, GA 30004
PDQ - THE PRETTY DARN QUICK WORD GAME
If you haven't played PDQ yet, it's a terrific new word/party game for ages 8 & up that's been taking the game world by storm. It's received rave reviews from parents, kids and educators as well as from a champion Scrabble player who said that it's "the most engaging word game I've played in years."
A full description is available at our website: http://www.gamewright.com/hiband/games/pdq.html
NEW TITLES BY CHRISTINE MORGAN
Seattle-area author Christine Morgan has been very busy, and it shows. The latter half of 2003 will see the release of many new works, including:
TRINITY BAY BOOKS
This horror series is set in the fictional northern California town of Trinity Bay. Black Roses is the first of these, and will be followed by the books Gifted Children and Changeling Moon.
Black Roses - a novel of
demonic sexual obsession.
- Publisher: Sabledrake Enterprises
- Cover Price: $14.95
- Available: NOW
- Link: http://trinity-bay.com
Theresa Zane returns to her childhood home in the wake of a failed marriage and career, only to meet the man of her dreams. Literally. He is an incubus, with the power to invade and influence the minds of sleeping women and make their most forbidden fantasies come true. He wants Theresa for his own. He will do anything to win her. Even kill.
NAUGHTY AND DICE: AN ADULT GAMER'S GUIDE TO SEXUAL SITUATIONS
- Publisher: Sabledrake Enterprises
- Cover Price: $19.95
- Available: NOW
- Link: http://sabledrake.com/games.htm
Naughty and Dice is a generic role-playing supplement covering the topic of sex in gaming. It includes information on seduction, pregnancy, disease, STDs, sex in history, sex in mythology, sex in folklore, genre-specific rules for fantasy and horror, magic spells, enchanted items, high-tech gadgets, and more. Written by the Origins Award nominated Christine Morgan, with art by a talented variety of contributors, Naughty and Dice is the book for which mature gamers have been waiting.
SILVER DOORWAY BOOKS
This series is intended for young readers (ages 8-12), and brings together the world of the author's fantasy novels (the MageLore and ElfLore trilogies) with the modern day. The Broderick kids - twins Kevin and Katie, and their little brother Sam - always thought there was something strange about Aunt Ellie. When they discover a magical doorway in her basement, and a startling secret about her pet cat, they know for sure.
Website: http://silverdoorway.com
Silver Doorway #1 - A Gnome Away From Home
Marky of Gnome Keep is lost and alone. He hopes to get help from a good sorceress. Instead, he gets Kevin, Katie, and Sam. They follow him through a silver doorway into another world, where the task of seeing Marky safely home means avoiding huge hungry owls and battling goblins. |
Silver Doorway #2 - Dwarves in the Dark
Sam Broderick and Stone Hammerfine may be from two different worlds, but they've got one thing in common - bossy big sisters. When Stone runs away, and Sam goes to find him, they end up trapped in a giant spider's web and on the run from greedy robbers in the dark and spooky Howling Caves. |
Silver Doorway #3 - An Elf's Adventure
Sometimes grown-ups have problems, whether they're elves with fantastic magic powers or regular human moms and dads. The elf girl Talaitha is on a dangerous quest to find a cup that she hopes will make her parents fall in love again, and the Broderick kids wonder if it would work on theirs, too. |
Also, look for short stories of Christine's to appear in the following upcoming anthologies: Historical Hardboiled, Closet Desire IV, Fear of the Unknown, and Leather, Lace and Lust.
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