As you may have noticed in the past month or two, Fantasy Magazine is up to all sorts of things in our ongoing quest to be the premier fantasy-oriented site on the Internet. Upcoming events include a new website with cool new community features, a web-comic by Chris Douglas called “Antallan Tales,” a month-long focus on games in August, features focusing on crafts and visual media, more micro-fiction and Blog for a… contests, all combined with a continued emphasis on great fantasy fiction, including stories from Tanith Lee, Nancy Kress, and Norman Spinrad.
One of the things we try to do is look to the future and so we’ve chosen to switch our book-selling affiliation to Powell’s Books, located in Portland, Oregon, where it occupies an entire city block. Powell’s is one of the world’s great bookstores and it’s closely affiliated with the speculative fiction community — look on its home page right now, for example, to see an upcoming signing with Fantasy Magazine author Camille Alexa, whose “Shades of White and Road” appears in our pages as well as in her collection, Push of the Sky.
If you want to support us in our drive to supply you with an unending supply of the best in fantasy fiction and nonfiction, please click through every once in a while and buy from Powell’s, knowing that you’re supporting both a fine independent bookstore and this magazine. Thanks!
1 • Cat Rambo said:
June 18th, 2009 at 5:09 pm, permalink
What do folks think, is this something you worry much about, whee your book money is going?
2 • Lane said:
June 19th, 2009 at 12:04 pm, permalink
Totally. If I can’t find a book in one of my two local bookstores (or have them order it), it generally doesn’t get bought. I have been known to make an impulse buy at Barnes & Noble while shopping with the missus, or go on an Amazon used book spree when something I want is out of print, but feelings of guilt usually fester afterward. I guess I shouldn’t feel bad about the Amazon sprees, since those books are usually from local bookstores around the country getting rid of stuff, but that oily feeling of clandestine internet activity remains nonetheless.
3 • Camille Alexa said:
June 19th, 2009 at 1:08 pm, permalink
The Cedar Hills Crossing Powell’s location has been incredibly supportive of SF&F writers and small press. My huge thanks to all involved.
Go, Powell’s!
4 • Cat Rambo said:
June 19th, 2009 at 2:02 pm, permalink
I am always happy to have an excuse to buy more books!
5 • Blog Link Soup! « To Breathe Underwater said:
June 19th, 2009 at 11:40 pm, permalink
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6 • SMD said:
June 20th, 2009 at 12:26 am, permalink
I was just at Powell’s yesterday. Second time I’ve ever been there and just as overwhelming too. Wonderful place. I buy from them whenever I go there. I think of it as an adventure in book buying