From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Some good news
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:57:03 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	Considering that Australia began as a fantasy in the minds of Greek
geographers, this is appropriate.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 3:47 PM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Some good news

& there were . . . looking at fingers . . . 5 Aussies at WFC . . .

mjw

>>> eginter at klgai.com 11/05/02 03:56PM >>>
Good on you, mate, as they say Down Under!

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:29 AM
To: wsfalist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Some good news

>From Publishers Weekly:

                Between 1977 and 1987, former CIA operative Edward =
Whittemore
                (1933*1995) wrote the Jerusalem Quartet, a surreal =
historical fantasy
                that won many plaudits but little renown for its author. =
=
This remarkable
                epic set in the Middle East deserves a new generation of =
=
readers and
                comes with blurbs from Jonathan Carroll, Ellen Datlow and =
=
Mike
                Resnick. The set comprises Sinai Tapestry (Old Earth
                [www.oldearthbooks.com], $17.95 paper 368p ISBN 1-882968-22=
=
-0),
                Jerusalem Poker ($19.95 paper 462p ISBN -23-9), Nile =
Shadows
                ($19.95 paper 515p ISBN -24-7) and Jericho Mosaic ($17.95 =
=
paper
                426p ISBN -25-5). The same publisher is also reissuing =
Whittemore's
                first novel, which plays with 20th century Asian history, =
=
Quin's
                Shanghai Circus ($17.95 paper 344p ISBN -21-2).

I do like "This remarkable epic set in the Middle East deserves a new =
generation of readers . . ."

Sold a fair number of copies at WFC, some folks sooooooo enthused over the =
=
reprints they nearly soiled themselves . . .

MOre about WFC after I dig through more email, yadda yadda yadda . . .

mjw