Recently we learned that one of our books published in the Fall of 2000 — Michael Bishop's Blue Kansas Sky — had been reviewed this past summer in SFRA Review, an academic-oriented publication of the Science Fiction Research Association. In that same issue was a review of George Zebrowski's Swift Thoughts. You'll find these two reviews on our catalog pages, as well as new reviews from Paul Di Filippo on Swift Thoughts and The Fantasy Writer's Assistant from the current issue of Asimov's. Lastly, we've linked to new on-line reviews of James Patrick Kelly's Strange But Not a Stranger on SFRevu and SFSite.

And speaking of Jim Kelly, we've just signed an agreement with the author to reprint his out-of-print first Golden Gryphon collection, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories. The quality trade paperback edition is now on our Fall 2003 schedule.

We're currently completing negotiations with a couple authors, so we will have some new titles to announce the beginning of 2003. And while I'm mentioning Golden Gryphon's future projects, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers and fans for their support throughout 2002, and we hope your support continues well into 2003 and beyond. We publish authors whose work excites and intrigues us — and with your continued support and feedback, we know we're on the right track.

Have a good one!

If you're intrigued, as I am, by Kage Baker's stories in Black Projects, White Knights — her stunning sense of time and place and history — you may want to know that Kage will be participating this December in The Great Dickens Christmas Fair at the San Francisco Cow Palace, where Dickens's Victorian London comes to life! Kage is a member of the cast at the Green Man (in one of the Exhibition Halls), and she can usually be found working behind the bar! Please check out the Calendar page for further details. So, if you find yourself in San Francisco on a weekend in December . . .

We hope to announce shortly the second author and title in our new Limited Edition Chapbook series. The stories presented in this series will be from some of the hottest writers on the scene, so trust me, you'll want to have the complete set. If you haven't ordered Turquoise Days by Al Reynolds, please do so before the title sells out. There are only 500 signed and numbered copies, period (our average hardcover print run is a minimum of 3000 copies) — and once they're gone, well, they're gone! This book is only available direct from Golden Gryphon or a select few specialty bookstores.

Now, congratulations are in order for three of our authors: First, Andy Duncan's story, "The Chief Designer," has won the Theodore Sturgeon Award for the best SF story of 2001. Though "The Chief Designer" is not included in Andy's Golden Gryphon collection, Beluthahatchie (ISBN 0-9655901-1-9), you'll want to read these stories to see what all the hoopla is over this hot young writer. Also, two of our recent books — Jeffrey Ford's The Fantasy Writer's Assistant (ISBN 1-930846-10-X) and Kage Baker's Black Projects, White Knights (ISBN 1-930846-11-8) — both made the Publishers Weekly Best of 2002 list! Again, congratulations to our authors!

And speaking of Black Projects, White Knights, as I previously mentioned, our distributor completely sold out the first print run of 3000 copies within four weeks after publication! That's right — four weeks! The second print run has now shipped so it's likely these are what you will find at both concrete and on-line stores. However, you can still purchase first editions directly from Golden Gryphon Press. How do you know if the copy is a first edition? Simply look on the copyright page: The last two words at the very bottom of the page should be "First Edition." Also, the last printed page in the book should be the colophon page, which contains information on the print run, the manufacturer, the typesetter, etc. If this text is missing from your copy, then you have a second edition.

Author James Patrick Kelly has been receiving a lot of press lately. His second and newest Golden Gryphon collection, Strange But Not a Stranger (ISBN 1-930846-12-6), was reviewed last week (November 10) in the New York Times. Jim has also been recently interviewed in Locus Magazine and on-line at both SciFi Weekly and SciFi Dimensions. You will find links to the NYT review and to the three interviews on the book's catalog page.

On October 3, we brought to your attention a critical analysis of Richard A. Lupoff's short fiction that was written by author/editor/critic Claude Lalumière. Well, Claude has now focused on Paul Di Filippo's work, with a new piece entitled "Playfully Perverting Consensus Reality: A Critical Chronology of Paul Di Filippo's Fiction." You'll find a link to this, as well as an interview that Claude recently conducted with Paul, on the catalog page for Strange Trades.

We're excited about a couple new Golden Gryphon titles that we hope to announce within the next few weeks, so please do check back here often.

For this web special offer, we have discounted all copies of Terminal Visions purchased directly from Golden Gryphon Press between 4 November and 30 November 2002, while supplies last! And as an added bonus, all copies purchased from us during this time period only will receive a manuscript page from the collection itself autographed by the author, Richard Paul Russo.

You can learn more about the Web Special Offer by clicking on the link on the home page. From there, you have access to an author bio and the Terminal Visions catalog page, where you can link to a multitude of reviews, an interview with the author himself, as well as the complete text for the short story "Just Drive, She Said."

We hope you'll take advantage of this special offer throughout the month of November and purchase a copy of Terminal Visions if you haven't previously done so. Golden Gryphon Press books make great holiday gifts, too!

". . . No one creates landscapes with Richard's stunning economy of words. A few strokes — and a whole world emerges just out of sight, illusive, but utterly persuasive."
— From the Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, winner of the World Fantasy Award

If you have not yet purchased a copy of Black Projects, White Knights then I strongly recommend that you do so as soon as possible. The second printings should hit store and on-line shelves by mid-November, so you still have a few weeks to locate a first edition copy. Of course, you can still easily and quickly order first editions of Black Projects, White Knights directly from us, through either the Catalog page or Order Form.

This is Golden Gryphon Press's first title (so far) to go to a second printing, and we're all quite thrilled that the book has gained such attention and sold so well in only four weeks. We want to thank all of our readers for your continued support, and we especially want to thank Kage Baker for writing such wonderul tales of the Company.

The fifth new title, we are pleased to announce, will be the first reprint of one of our earlier hardcovers: Joe R. Lansdale's High Cotton will be reprinted in July 2003 in a $15.95 trade paperback edition (ISBN 1- 930846-17-7). This particular edition is great for gift-giving, as a reading copy, or for those who simply prefer paperbacks rather than hardcovers.

We also have some exceptional news to share with you regarding our current titles. Kage Baker's Black Projects, White Knights (ISBN 1-930846-11-8) received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The review has been posted on the book's catalog page. PW rarely reviews books from small-press publishers the size of Golden Gryphon. However, not only have all of our books in the past year (plus) been reviewed, but this now makes the fifth starred review in that time. Let me repeat that for you doubters: FIVE starred reviews in one year from Publishers Weekly! Now, my question is: Do you own all five books?

In addition to this starred review, we've posted a ton of other new reviews, from both print and on-line sources, new interviews, sample stories, and more. You'll find additions to the catalog pages for all of these books: The Wild Boy by Warren Rochelle; Claremont Tales II by Richard A. Lupoff; The Great Escape by Ian Watson; The Fantasy Writer's Assistant by Jeffrey Ford; Black Projects, White Knights by Kage Baker; Strange But Not a Stranger by James Patrick Kelly; and Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. So if you have wanted to learn more about any of these books or authors, now is your opportunity to do so.

Regarding Claremont Tales (actually volumes I and II), we've added a link to Claude Lalumière's critical analysis of Richard Lupoff's three recent short fiction collections (one of which is from a different publisher). This critical piece was recently published in The New York Review of Science Fiction.

And speaking of Al Reynolds (at least we were a couple paragraphs back), our first signed and numbered limited edition chapbook, Turquoise Days, continues to sell steadily, thank you. I encourage all collectors reading this to be sure to order your copy (or two), if you haven't already done so, while supplies last. Please note that this chapbook has no ISBN, so you will only be able to purchase this book through Golden Gryphon, or select specialty booksellers.

We're working on another chapbook or two for 2003, and we'll have details here as soon as they are finalized. Our goal with these chapbooks is to make available to you new novelette- and novella-length stories from today's hottest talent. If you've read Turquoise Days, we hope you'll agree with us that this is quite possibly one of the best stories of the year. Watch for it next year during awards time.

The signed bookplate offer (see the link on our home page) has generated quite a few orders — and for many of our authors only a very small quantity of bookplates remained following the five-day WorldCon event. So I encourage you to submit your order now if you are interested in obtaining a free author-signed bookplate for each Golden Gryphon hardcover purchased.

All 500 copies of Turquoise Days, our new limited edition chapbook, were signed by Alastair Reynolds on Wednesday, 29 August, in a two-and-a-half-hour marathon in the author's room at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. We are very pleased with the feedback we received on this chapbook — in fact, on all Golden Gryphon Press books — during WorldCon. With advance orders and convention sales, Turquoise Days has sold quite well. All advanced orders for this title will hopefully ship within the week. This chapbook has no ISBN, and therefore can only be purchased directly from Golden Gryphon Press or other specialty bookstores.

Our first Internet special offer is now underway: While supplies last, we are offering a free Golden Gryphon Press/ConJosé WorldCon signed author bookplate with every hardcover purchase — so purchase a hardcover and receive one of these convention bookplates signed by that particular author. We have limited quantities remaining so to take advantage of this special offer, please order your hardcover titles as soon as possible. In addition to ordering on-line via PayPal, you can also print out our Order Form and send payment by personal check or money order, or by providing us with your Visa or Mastercard account data. And for more information on this special offer, just look for the link on the Golden Gryphon home page.

We have many new reviews, interviews, and stories to post here, but these will have to wait for a few more days until we get caught up (and recuperate!) from this past convention week. In the meantime, though, Turquoise Days is now shipping, and don't forget about the special signed-bookplate offer.

We've also added a link to a new interview with author Kage Baker that has been posted to SF Site; the interview is in support of Kage's new collection, Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (ISBN 1-930846-11-8).

In the last update, I mentioned some special offers Golden Gryphon will have available at its tables in the dealers room during ConJosé WorldCon. Well, we now know where our tables are located: We are down the far left aisle, right side, section D, tables D05 and D06. We're on the corner where the far left aisle intersects the third row, so we should be easy to find (amidst the hundreds of tables and thousands of people!).

In addition to the Golden Gryphon authors who will be attending the convention (and setting up signing sessions at our tables in the dealers room), three of our dust jacket cover artists will be in attendance as well: Bob Eggleton and Frank Kelly Freas, both of whom are finalists for the Hugo Award, as well as one of our newest artists, John Picacio (though you'll be seeing a lot more of John's work on our forthcoming books).

So again, please do stop by and introduce yourself to us in the dealers room, maybe even purchase a few books and obtain some signed author bookplates.

This will most likely be the last update until after the WorldCon. Before the end of September we hope to be posting details, including cover art and contents, on our four spring and summer 2003 titles.

Author Jeff VanderMeer has recently joined the ranks of Golden Gryphon Press authors with his collection Ghost Dancing, which has now been added to our forthcoming books schedule. And for all you Ambergris freaks out there, the collection will include a couple Ambergris-related stories, with one in particular on the festival of the Florida freshwater squid!

New to the web site is the first review of Kage Baker's Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers (ISBN 1-930846-11-8), plus new reviews of The Great Escape (ISBN 1-930846-09-6) and The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (ISBN 1-930846-10-X). We've also posted a photograph of author Warren Rochelle's recent encounter with a British griffin (or should that be "gryphon"?). See the catalog page for Warren's The Wild Boy for details.

Now, for the San Jose WorldCon update: Golden Gryphon Press will be present in the dealers room at ConJosé, from Thursday, August 29, through Monday, September 2. (Did I mention that Labor Day was my birthday?) We will be premiering our two newest collections, Black Projects, White Knights and James Patrick Kelly's Strange But Not a Stranger (ISBN 1-930846-12-6), as well as our first chapbook, Turquoise Days by Alastair Reynolds. All three authors will be at the convention, as will Golden Gryphon Press authors Kevin J. Anderson, R. Garcia y Robertson, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Reed, and Richard Paul Russo. Author Lucius Shepard will also be in attendance if you would like to chat with him about his forthcoming novella Louisiana Breakdown.

And speaking of Turquoise Days, all 500 copies are now in hand from the printer and awaiting the arrival of Alastair Reynolds in San Jose, California, so that he can sign each copy. If you have preordered Turquoise Days, your copy will ship around mid-September.

We've also prepared some goodies for the WorldCon: special Golden Gryphon/ConJosé bookplates, and we've had each of our current nineteen authors sign a small stack of them for us. So everyone who purchases a single-author hardcover book at the convention will also receive one of these bookplates signed by that particular author — at no additional cost. While supplies last, of course! If you plan to attend ConJosé and you've been thinking about buying a particular hardcover or two (or three), this would be the time to do so, and get a signed author bookplate with each book.

So please come by the Golden Gryphon Press tables in the dealers room during the WorldCon and introduce yourself. Editor and publisher Gary Turner will be there, as will editor Marty Halpern. Throughout the convention, our authors also plan to be at the tables to chat with you and sign books — so do check the posted schedule.

Artist Ron Walotsky passed away around midnight on Monday, July 29, in Florida, of kidney failure. Ron had been hospitalized since late June, a week after returning home from a trip to Africa. His artwork can be seen on four Golden Gryphon titles: The Moon Maid, Perpetuity Blues, Blue Kansas Sky, and most recently The Great Escape. I last met Ron at the 1999 World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island — and, with extreme delight, I participated in his art presentation and discussion. (One cannot view Ron's art without actively participating!)

Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, Ron Walotsky graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1966. His first job was with Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine. According to editor and publisher Gordon van Gelder, Ron was #2 on the all-time list of F&SF cover artists — with over 50 covers including the forthcoming December 2002 issue.

In addition to sf and fantasy books and magazines, Ron's artwork has appeared on many album jackets for RCA, Polydor, Nonsuch, and United Artists Records, as well as in the New York Times Sunday edition, and Scholastic, Penthouse, Viva and Gallery magazines.

I don't know how long the Ron Walotsky web site will remain active, so I encourage all of you to visit his site and experience his wonderful creations, particularly his ancient warrior masks, of which he was most proud.

May he forever have a canvas upon which to paint.

And as we ship a new Jim Kelly title, his first collection, Think Like a Dinosaur and Other Stories — and Golden Gryphon's first book — is now Sold Out! We've been warning you for months that the on-hand supply of this book was dwindling . . . If you still wish to purchase a copy of this book, please contact the publisher at gryphon@goldengryphon.com for availability information.

Lastly, Golden Gryphon would like to congratulate author Andy Duncan whose novella "The Chief Designer" recently won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, and has also been nominated for the upcoming Hugo Award! Unfortunately, you won't find this story in Andy's first book, Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (ISBN: 0-9655901-1-9), but if you're wondering what all the buzz is on this writer — and you don't already own this collection — then treat yourself to an exceptional read.

The web site has also undergone a bit of cleanup, with some new links added, new reviews and interviews added, and some page updates made.

The next update in a couple weeks will have information on Golden Gryphon at ConJosé, the 60th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in San Jose, California, from Thursday, August 29, through Monday, September 2.

The "Catalog" page for The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories now has a link to a new interview with author Jeffrey Ford by noted reviewer and critic Nick Gevers. The interview is posted on SF Site, along with a new review of the Ford collection.

And a belated congratulations to one of our authors, Ian Watson, who's Japanese-translated novel Orgasmachine has been nominated for the Seiun Awards — the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Awards. The winner will be announced July 14, and the awards will be re-presented at the 2002 WorldCon in San Jose. (As an aside, Ian's novel was first published in French in 1976, and has never appeared in English.)

The next two new books are short-fiction collections by authors Dale Bailey and George Alec Effinger. Readers familiar with Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine have undoubtedly read a few Dale Bailey stories by now, and Golden Gryphon has been watching Dale's progress closely. His new collection will be entitled The Resurrection Man's Legacy. We're also proud to announce the first George Alec Effinger collection in nearly twenty years! Sadly, while working on the details for Budayeen Nights, George unexpectedly passed away. You can't imagine how shocked we were here at Golden Gryphon, having just communicated with George less than three weeks earlier. But we hope that Budayeen Nights, featuring some previously unpublished new fiction, will do justice to George's memory — and we hope you will agree.

Golden Gryphon would like to congratulate author James Patrick Kelly for his third major award nomination this year. His novelette "Undone," which will appear in the forthcoming collection Strange But Not a Stranger (ISBN 1-930846-12-6), has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, and has just received a nomination for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award! The Sturgeon Award will be presented on July 5^th and the Hugo Award on September 1^st at the ConJose/WorldCon. Good luck, Jim!

New reviews have been posted for most of our recent books, particularly Jeffrey Ford's The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories (ISBN 1-930846-10-X) and Ian Watson's The Great Escape (ISBN 1-930846-09-6). In addition to the review of The Great Escape, you can also read a detailed interview with Ian Watson conducted by Nick Gevers.

We haven't forgotten that we promised you information on the new Golden Gryphon chapbook series — and we should have details for you soon. (I can tell you that the first book will be a 30,000 word SF novella by a well-known U.K. author, and that the story has already been sent to the typesetter, but please don't tell anyone that I told you this).

And around July, we should have details, including cover art, posted to the "Forthcoming" page for all four books we have scheduled for the first half of 2003.

By the way, the wraparound illustration on The Fantasy Writer's Assistant dust jacket, by artist extraordinaire John Picacio, has been selected for inclusion in the annual art anthology, Spectrum 9: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and Arnie Fenner. In April, John Picacio also received the International Horror Guild Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Horror and Dark Fantasy Art" for the year 2001. That's just a literate way of saying "Best Artist of the Year." Congratulations, John! The Fantasy Writer's Assistant was John's first project for Golden Gryphon, but you'll see more of his fine work adorning our books in the future.

If you haven't made up your mind as yet on either Ian Watson's The Great Escape or George Zebrowski's Swift Thoughts, check out the lastest rhetoric. A number of new reviews have been posted for these two recently published titles. And if you don't want to wait until September, you can now preorder our next two releases, Black Projects, White Knights by Kage Baker and Strange But Not a Stranger by James Patrick Kelly.

Now, on to the 2003 publishing schedule:

We have some good news, and some bad news regarding the 2003 schedule. First the bad news: Lucius Shepard's collection Two Trains Running has been rescheduled from April 2003 to Fall 2003. The good news is that a new Lucius Shepard novella, dark fantasy Louisiana Breakdown, will be filling that April 2003 slot. Author Poppy Z. Brite will pen the book's Introduction, and renowned artist J. K. Potter will provide the cover art and a set of interior illustrations. This one is not to be missed! Two Lucius Shepard titles in 2003 — we are excited.

The next update will hopefully contain news on the new Golden Gryphon limited edition chapbook series. So check back with us again soon.

And while I have your attention, I would like to congratulate James Patrick Kelly for his recent Hugo Awards nomination for novelette "Undone" (which has already received a Nebula Awards nomination)! "Undone" will be included in James's forthcoming Golden Gryphon Press collection Strange But Not a Stranger.

We have two other authors who have recently won awards: Richard Paul Russo has won his second Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for his novel Ship of Fools (Ace Books). We hope that the recognition Richard receives from this Award will encourage readers to check out his distinctive short fiction in Terminal Visions. And Richard A. Lupoff has won the 2002 Independent Publisher Book Award in the category of Popular Culture for his book The Great American Paperback (Collectors Press). Richard's knowledge of the field has naturally influenced his writing, and some of his best cross-genre stories are showcased in Claremont Tales and Claremont Tales II.

New interviews with Andy Duncan, Richard A. Lupoff, and George Zebrowski have also been posted, as have new reviews for many of our titles published since 2001.

The next update should coincide with the release of Jeffrey Ford's highly anticipated collection, The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories. See you then.

British author Ian Watson's first U.S. short story collection, The Great Escape, is now shipping. Ian has gained worldwide recognition with the release of the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence, for which he received screen credit for screen story. On The Great Escape page you'll find the Publishers Weekly review and links to the complete text for two of the stories included in the book. You may be interested in knowing too that George Zebrowski's recently published collection, Swift Thoughts, is dedicated to Ian Watson!

We certainly hope you enjoy Ian Watson as much as we do, because you'll be seeing more of him from Golden Gryphon Press. Scheduled for publication in Fall 2003 is Mockymen, a new Ian Watson novel: Reincarnated by Black Magic, a Nazi attracts the attention of mind-transferring aliens. Sound intriguing?

Also on the schedule for June 2003 is Michael Bishop's second Golden Gryphon collection—Brighten to Incandescence—comprised of seventeen uncollected stories. So even if you own all six of Michael's previously published short-fiction volumes, there won't be any overlap in content when you add this new collection to your library.

Two more of Golden Gryphon's authors, Neal Barrett, Jr., and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, now have their own web sites up, and the links have been posted to our "Favorite Links" page.

And lastly, an update on our very first book, James Patrick Kelly's Think Like a Dinosaur. If you haven't purchased this book yet, you had better do so quickly as less than twenty copies remain in our warehouse. Our distributor, IPG, has been sold out of this title for quite some time. So purchase a copy now (especially if you plan on owning a complete set of Golden Gryphon Press books) before we sell out and you have to pay dealers' prices.

And speaking of George Zebrowski, his long-awaited short fiction collection, Swift Thoughts—which contains "Wound the Wind"—is now shipping. I am truly delighted with the starred review the book recently received in Publishers Weekly—one of the more literate, thoughtful reviews I have read in a long time. In fact, according to the PW reviewer, "this quality collection should quickly sell out its first printing." So, have you ordered your copy yet?

Congratulations as well to Paul Di Filippo, whose 2001 collection, Strange Trades, made SF Site's Readers' Choice Best of the Year Top 10 List.

I've also added a review of Kevin J. Anderson's Dogged Persistence, that's been a long time comin' from author and critic Edward Bryant; this review appears in the current issue of Locus.

And if you would like to receive notification of these updates automatically via email, please sign up for the "goldengryphon" mailing list. Find the Yahoo! Groups icon toward the bottom of the Golden Gryphon home page, enter your email address, and click. That's all there is to it.

A couple of updates to our forthcoming titles:

Author Jeffrey Ford decided to sneak in two additional tales into The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories before we went to press. One story, "The Woman Who Counts Her Breath," was previously published in the Northwest Review, and the second, "Something by the Sea," is another new story exclusive to this collection.

We would also like to announce that noted author Connie Willis will be writing the Foreword to the second James Patrick Kelly collection, Strange But Not a Stranger.

Essentially, each email that you receive will contain the text of one of these update announcements. So please don't worry about being overwhelmed with email—I typically only update this site a couple times each month, though occasionally more often during our busier seasons (like over these next few months). I may also send out an occasional time-dependent announcement that doesn't make it to this web site. So should you join, we'll be seeing you on Yahoo! Groups.

The "Links" page has also been updated. I felt it was about time we recognized some of the original publication sources for many of our authors' stories.

The "Calendar of Events" page has also been updated, with the first event occurring tomorrow! — the event features author Andy Duncan, and since it's an on-line chat, anyone can participate!

Our first announcement of the New Year is The Silver Gryphon Anthology—our twenty-fifth book—to be edited by Gary Turner and Marty Halpern. Publication of The Silver Gryphon is scheduled for May 2003. The anthology will feature new fiction from nearly all of Golden Gryphon's current and forthcoming authors. The deadline for story submissions is the end of May, so we will be able to provide more information on the anthology's contents hopefully by midsummer. We simply asked our authors to submit a story that best defines them as a writer: science fiction, mystery, fantasy, horror, slipstream—it's up to each individual author to decide.

Of course this means that if we've scheduled The Silver Gryphon as our twenty-fifth book, then we've already scheduled book number twenty-four as well. Lucius Shepard, one of the best short-fiction writers working in the field today, joins Golden Gryphon Press with a new mini collection, Two Trains Running, that combines both journalism and fiction. This book is scheduled for April 2003, along with Howard Waldrop's collection, Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations.

All the 2001 awards and award nominations have been removed from the home page to make room for what we hope will be another banner year, with our books and authors continuing to receive plaudits and recognition from the fans, from their peers, and from the various awards committees.

The dust jacket art for Richard A. Lupoff's forthcoming collection, Claremont Tales II, has been updated; those who know Richard will catch the resemblence of the robed figure in this new painting. A few new reviews have been added throughout, the "Calendar of Events" page has been updated, but please do check back with us again: we'll soon be posting the cover art and table of contents for Kage Baker's first collection, Black Projects, White Knights: The Company Dossiers, and James Patrick Kelly's second Golden Gryphon collection, Strange But Not a Stranger. Both books are scheduled to premier at the 2002 ConJose WorldCon.

We'll conclude this update with a bit of a teaser: Golden Gryphon Press is also planning a limited edition chapbook series of original fiction, which we hope to announce in more detail within the next two to three months.