News!!!!News!!!!News!!!!News!!!!News!!!!

With the various comics just finished or coming, I want to see release dates well before the item is released. Paticularly if there is any future small press stuff like the Subterranean collection where the print run is so small.

Possibly a blog if Tad has the time and inclination. As I always find him so damn amusing, it might be fun to hear the period rants.

Also, I agree with the tour schedule info being a required.

Finally, I would like a section of the site dedicated to me personally with monthly notes from Tad how he would be nothing today without me. Nothing flashy mind you, just a periodic "Thanks Brad!!!!"  ;)

Hee - just looked up myself on the Treehouse and found me, in 2001, mixing it up with Jaime on the subject of whether some of the more adult relationships in Otherland and MST were appropriate reading material for kids.  I think I got into an argument with Marian at one point about inside-out cows, of all things.

I think most of all, we need to keep the people.

Binky wrote:

Hee - just looked up myself on the Treehouse and found me, in 2001, mixing it up with Jaime on the subject of whether some of the more adult relationships in Otherland and MST were appropriate reading material for kids. 

*stare* *blink*

I don't REMEMBER this!

And, might I just add: inside-out *cows*?

wow.

Some other boards actually tell you the total amount of time you've been logged on, like ever; in days, hours and minutes.  I think most of us probably don't want that as it'll scare the wullies out of me if I try and think how much time I've actually spend on here, and I'm kinda part time.

*hides in very hidden place, where nobody can see her*

just little cute Avas! They're not evil! They make you smile and happy and... dunno what. And I'm not planning some bright-pink-green mixed pic to frighten you all of the board.

Jaime wrote:

*stare* *blink*

I don't REMEMBER this!

Nothing is ever forgotten on teh internets.

I can't remember whether the cows thing came up here or there, but it was something to do with alien abductions, and got quite unreasonable :-)

*Misses Eva the Weaver, Johanna, and others*

My chincilla's burning.

Em wrote:

My chincilla's burning.

I think they make a cream for that...

Jaime wrote:

Guthwulf, Marian, and NancIE are also Lysters, and I'm sure there are others I've inadvertently forgotten.

*waves*

strangeshe wrote:

The site you remember, Binky, is the old Tad Williams Message Board which was put up by Eric Neuman. Damon/paragon, Firsfron, bandit, sam, Rook, lian, and quite a few others including some of the Lysters hung out there. Marian & Pandy & Maladroit found that board prior to the Lyst, as I recall, but there was quite a bit of member crossover between the two.

Ah, memories!

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Prior to Eric's TWMB, however, was Guthwulf's Memory, Sorrow and Thorn Thesis project, which included a MB which was quite active. I think it predated the Lyst (though not by much) and the TWMB. Several old-timers (like myself*) managed to keep an eye on all three.

I never kept an eye on the Lyst, but was a frequent visitor to the TWMB and the Interactive Thesis, starting in November 1997 when I first got online; my first post to the TWMB was in November of 1997 (I know because I later looked it up). Both the boards were thriving in those days, with many active users, and it was obvious they had already been around for a while.
http://web.archive.org/web/200105030122 … euman/tad/  indicates the Tad Williams Fan Page was around since at least Octover 1996. http://web.archive.org/web/200107150110 … tbook.html  indicates the Interactive thesis began around December 1996.

Actually, I had first seached "online" (and I use the word "online" loosely) for a Tad Williams message board as early as 1992, but either nothing existed, or my high school didn't subscribe to the right electronic message board services, or I wasn't looking in the right place. Or any combination of the above.

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For a short while, Tad had a MB thread over on SFFnet. I have not checked there in over five years, though, so have no idea if it's still around. Seems like there was also an MB on the Tor publisher site sometime around the time the first LEGENDS was released. Tad posted occasionally to both of those (he's so generous to his fans; really is remarkable).

Yes; it must have been crazy for him, back in those days, to keep track of a half-dozen message boards. It's remarkable that he ever got anything written.

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Yep, 10 years is forever on the net. Also really remarkable.

Yeah. Only 9 years and 2 months for me, though. ;)

Wolfshade wrote:

*waves*

Hi!  Yeah, there are lots of Lysters hereabouts.  :)

Originally posted by strangeshe:
Okay, now back to your regularly scheduled topic and the Avatar Wars. And yes, I'm pretty sure we'll be having a News page of some sort on the new site which will be a Good Thing(tm).

& in fact, I believe it's Olaf's site (shadowmarch.net) that already has a great deal of the news and bibliography and more in German. The Interviews page is amazing. As I recall, the bibliography that's there started from a list I was running years ago, but Olaf's been much better at keeping it up to date. Now if I just read German. (Oops. Almost had a smilie moment there.)

Olaf has some of (all of?) the various covers for War of the Flowers and some covers for Shadowmarch & Shadowplay. 
[ January 10, 2007: Message edited by: strangeshe ][/QB]

Since the topic of Shadowmarch.net  has been brought up, I would like to point out that my site will vanish in mid-April. So, if there is anything up there that you would like to save, now would be the time to do it. Feel free to copy and re-use any of the original content of my site.

2006 has been a difficult year for me and I do need to make some changes. Letting Shadowmarch.net go is one of the changes. I have been doing the site for almost three years and it has been lots of fun.

I can, however direct you to
Tad Williams Online that is also providing news about Tad's upcoming works.

[ January 12, 2007: Message edited by: Olaf ]