Table of Contents
1. Adagio David Carrico
2. Two Left Feet Iver P. Cooper
3. The Truth About That Cat and Pup Virginia DeMarce
4. A Friend in Need Jack Carroll
5. The Money Franchise Kerryn Offord
6. McAdams’ Blue Cheese Mine Terry Howard
7. Water Conservation Ray Christiansen
Serials:
8. No Ship for Tranquebar Kevin Evans and Karen Evans
Nonfiction:
9. Industrial Alchemy, Part 4: Organic Chemical Feedstocks and Product Timeline Iver P. Cooper
10. What We Have Here Is a Failure to Communicate (Why the Ottomans aren’t Talking to Up-timers) Panteleimon Roberts
11. Stallions vs. Geldings as War and Riding Horses Karen Bergstrahl
What is this? About the Grantville Gazette
Written by Grantville Gazette Staff
The Grantville Gazette originated as a by-product of the ongoing and very active discussions which take place concerning the 1632 universe Eric Flint created in the novels 1632, 1633 and 1634: The Galileo Affair (the latter two books co-authored by David Weber and Andrew Dennis, respectively). This discussion is centered in three of the conferences in Baen’s Bar, the discussion area of Baen Books’ web site. The conferences are entitled “1632 Slush,” “1632 Slush Comments” and “1632 Tech Manual.” They have been in operation for almost seven years now, during which time nearly two hundred thousand posts have been made by hundreds of participants.
Soon enough, the discussion began generating so-called “fanfic,” stories written in the setting by fans of the series. A number of those were good enough to be published professionally. And, indeed, a number of them were—as part of the anthology Ring of Fire , which was published by Baen Books in January, 2004. ( Ring of Fire also includes stories written by established authors such as Eric Flint himself, as well as David Weber, Mercedes Lackey, Dave Freer, K.D. Wentworth and S.L. Viehl.)
The decision to publish the Ring of Fire anthology triggered the writing of still more fanfic, even after submissions to the anthology were closed. Ring of Fire has been selling quite well since it came out, and a second anthology similar to it was published late in 2007. Another, Ring of Fire III, is forthcoming. It will also contain stories written by new writers, as well as professionals. But, in the meantime . . . the fanfic kept getting written, and people kept nudging Eric—well, pestering Eric—to give them feedback on their stories.
Hence . . . the Grantville Gazette. Once he realized how many stories were being written—a number of them of publishable quality—he raised with Jim Baen the idea of producing an online magazine which would pay for fiction and nonfiction articles set in the 1632 universe and would be sold through Baen Books’ Webscriptions service. Jim was willing to try it, to see what happened.
As it turned out, the first issue of the electronic magazine sold well enough to make continuing the magazine a financially self-sustaining operation. Since then, even more volumes have been electronically published through the Baen Webscriptions site. As well, Grantville Gazette, Volume One was published in paperback in November of 2004. That has since been followed by hardcover editions of Grantville Gazette, Volumes Two, Three and Four.
First: The magazine had been paying semi-pro rates for the electronic edition, increasing to pro rates upon transition to paper, but one of Eric’s goals had long been to increase payments to the authors. Grantville Gazette, Volume Eleven is the first volume to pay the authors professional rates.
Second: This on-line version you’re reading. The site here at http://www.grantvillegazette.com is the electronic version of an ARC, an advance readers copy where you can read the issues as we assemble them. There are stories posted here which won’t be coming out in the magazine for more than a year.
How will it work out? Will we be able to continue at this rate? Well, we don’t know. That’s up to the readers. But we’ll be here, continuing the saga, the soap opera, the drama and the comedy just as long as people are willing to read them.
—The Grantville Gazette Staff
FICTION:
The Anaconda Project, Further News
Written by Grantville Gazette Staff
As Eric points out, no one expects the Inquisition. And no one expects open heart surgery, either.
Unfortunately for the fans, Eric’s surgery has thrown his writing schedule completely out of whack. He’s currently working on the novel Much Fall of Blood, due out in May 2010. That one will be followed by Threshold and is due out in June 2010. And those will be followed by 1635: The Eastern Front, which is due out in October 2010.
As soon as he gets caught up, he’ll start on The Anaconda Project again, and we’ll resume the serial.
Let’s all hope for soon.
Small Problem with Cafe Press Store
Written by Grantville Gazette Staff
The Cafe Press store problems have been fixed and I’ve started ordering. Just a bit more patience and we’ll have it caught up.
Apologies for the delays, folks.
We’ve got a small problem in our Cafe Press store. If you’re due some of the gifts for subscribing, I want to assure you that you haven’t been forgotten. We are working on it, however the person who maintains the store and has the passwords, etc., has been in the hospital for a couple of months.
We’ll keep after it and it will eventually be fixed, at which time I’ll catch up on sending out the gifts.
Paula
