Wednesday, October 31, 2012

LATE FREEZINE'S GREETINGS




Season's greetings this Halloween from the Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  We hope you have enjoyed our special late October Halloween Surprise Story, WYRM'S BLOOD, by Adam Bolivar, the fifth (count 'em) Weird Jack Tale serialized in our ragtag literary cybership.   

The nanofleet's transmissions have been weakening during the past several months, yet we have been able to decipher the general message.  They intend our motley collection of assorted tales and pictograms here to accrue naturally as time and circumstance permit.  With the continued assistance of dear readers and followers like you, more interest is generated and thus more manuscripts are digitally delivered for our editing team to read through and process, accordingly.  

This is a fanzine continually going through small changes and modifications and gradually evolving into a more user-friendly format by which stories and their corresponding artwork may be optimally enjoyed in the 21st century milieu of modalities.  Be it via your eReader or smart phone, Kindle, laptop, iPad, or nano device, the FREEZINE will be around as a creative writer's friendly assistant in gaining exposure and experience in the field of electronic publishing.   

With a total of fifteen issues, twenty authors, and over forty stories now archived for your perusal and reading pleasure, the FREEZINE of Fantasy and Science Fiction continues to strive for excellence in the fields of genre writing and its corresponding art.  Those new to the Freezine may want to check out our sister site, the FREE ZINE ZONE for a full archive of the art featured in this webzine's collected stories.  

Thanks to all the artists and writers who have contributed to the Freezine over the course of the past three years.  It goes without saying this enterprise would never have lifted off the ground (much less achieved orbit) without your gracious and generous contributions and assistance.  Feel free to email me, Shaun Lawton, Editor in Chief, at freezinefantasysciencefiction@gmail.com to query about a story submission you would like to see appear here in a future issue.  For longer stories,  a daily serial may be presented; for shorter tales, we may publish them as stand alone stories on any given day of the month.  




A great amount of thanks and goodwill goes out to our returning veteran author Adam Bolivar, whose fifth Weird Jack Tale we just enjoyed over the past three days of SamhainWYRM'S BLOOD—marks the seventh story of his that he's dared to brave against the imposing facade of the grazing hordes out there.  Our small legion of purveyors are still browsing away, presumably; although I fear about eighteen of our followers abandoned ship (so to speak) during the interminable period since our last issue, back in April.   Please remain registered here to follow our posts, however sporadic they may eventually be.  My assurance remains, it will be entirely worthwhile (if reading free meta fiction from beyond the fringe is your idea of a valuable way to spend your time).  

Much appreciation and thanks go out to Jesse Stevens this brilliant autumnal season, for his contributions with his pastel exercises with brushstrokes and his illustration above, which beckons all of us silently to never give up on the FREEZINE, even during those long boring frozen weeks where it seems as if there will never be another story to brighten our otherwise mundane days.  Have no fear, for this webzine is here to stay another hundred years if the nanoeditors have anything to say about it.  
And believe me, they do.