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Skriven 2005-02-14 00:29:22 av Kay Shapero (1:102/524.0)
Ärende: [2 of 2] JMS posts to moderated b5 newsgroup
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I know I've been hunkered down a bit of late, and there have been very good
reasons for it...which someday I suspect I will be able to tell, perhaps in the
form of another fairy tale....

So in the interim, a quick roundup.

I'd say that the next two weeks are going to be critical for the future of
TMoS.  There have been a variety of conversations about a variety of things and
people, and some offers are starting to go out to various individuals...so we
shall see what we shall see.

On the subject of the Crusade DVD commentary...I see another fairy tale looming
in the future...WB has agreed, after quite a bit of noise, to remove the
commentary that I did from all future pressings of the set, since that was the
deal that we had made: use it all, including the explanation of what happened,
or use none of it.  So those of you who have your DVDs now, and for the next
bit, will have that commentary.  Those afterward won't.  I don't know when the
next pressing will be, but whenever that is, is when the change takes place.

AOL as some have noted is closing down its newsgroup system, so I'm going to
have to retrench.  Consequently, I may be offline for a bit...though I'll
likely be off regardless for the next bit while the dust settles on TMoS.

I've added a comics convention appearance in Canada this summer, but I'll let
the con in question do the announcing at the proper time rather than
pre-empting them.

In February at one point I'll also be in Toronto to co-direct my radio drama
series "The Adventures of Apocalypse Al" for CBC Radio.  It should be a great
deal of fun.  It's kind of Monty Python Meets The Maltese Falcon En Route To
the End of the World.

In relation to the comics stuff...my first issue of Fantastic Four (entitled
"Distant Music") will be coming out in June, the same month that my graphic
novel Dream Police *finally* hits the stores.  Mike Deodato has had to squeeze
in the artwork between issues of Amazing Spider-Man, but it's been worth the
wait.  It's just gorgeous...very film noir but also very funny.

We've also found an artist finally for The Book of Lost Souls, which will be
debuting from Marvel in September.  I can't reveal her name yet, because that
has to come through Marvel, but she's a very well known and popular artist.

Finally, for those of you who know Fiona Avery's work from Crusade, B5 and her
own comics, I'm informed that her first novel, "The Crown Rose," is due to come
out in hardcover from Prometheus Books.  It's a historical fantasy set in
Medieval France and quite good.  You can locate the book at:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591023122/qid=1106991239/sr
=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9494767-9557725?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

It would be great if the B5 fans out there could give this book a great
send-off.

More on other stuff when I can post it.


 jms

(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:25:50 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Attention JMS: No JMS on Fedcon XIV ?
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


I have not seen any emails from them.  I do know that literally several hundred
of my emails ended up being auto-routed to the spam courtesy of the AOL system
(which I only discovered was happening by accident, and who knows what ended up
in there).  But the last I heard, they asked if I was interested, I said
yes...and that was that.  The contract, to my knowledge, didn't come in via
email, I do know I didn't sign one...I figured they'd get to me sooner or
later.  But perhaps they ended up in the spam folder.


 jms

(jmsatb5@aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 20:27:10 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Attention JMS: No JMS on Fedcon XIV ?
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


PS...which is the long way of saying that it was still on my calendar and as
far as I knew, I was still planning to attend.

 jms

(jmsatb5@aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)
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Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 04:58:52 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Attention JMS: No JMS on Fedcon XIV ?
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


Yep, just checked the damn spam folder and there was a recent note from them.
I just responded, but from what they said it may be too late at this point.

 jms

(jmsatb5@aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 01:04:28 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Attention JMS: No JMS on Fedcon XIV ?
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


>I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you'll be able to come anyways.
>Could you please tell us when you know anything definite? (Because if
>you won't be attending Fedcon I'm definetely going to sell my ticket!)

I found the toggle to turn the spam filter off completely (all the ads for
breast enlargement that I could ever hope for are now cluttering the mailbox),
and have received a note from FedCon at last...but it looks as though --
assuming from not hearing anything that I'd changed my mind, which is absurd
because I've never done something like that and there are other ways to find me
other than email that should have been used before making that assumption --
they've reallocated the money that would've been used to bring me out there to
other guests.  So it may not be able to work out now for this year.  We'll see,
but it seems doubtful at this point.

This is one of the problems in JUST relying on email.

 jms

(jmsatb5@aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2004 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)



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