Site and book news, for those that aren't following

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Hi guys!

I know not everyone here frequents youngwizards.net and youngwizards.com on a regular basis, so I thought I might alert you guys to a couple of things you might be interested in over there. :D Firstly, the pages are getting a bit of a makeover, including some new features, which means they're all pretty and interesting to look at. If you haven't checked out yw.com, especially, for a while, they've got all sorts of interesting stuff there, like sitemaps, various introductory bits and bobs, fansite lists (if you have one and it's not there there's probably a way you can submit them), some pretty wallpapers...

And, secondly, what is I suppose technically a new feature. But it's SO exciting I can barely contain myself. ;) Okay, not THAT exciting, but still really really cool... The Errantry Concordance is, in the site's words, a WIP "encyclopaedia of the YW-verse" which will have occasional excerpts posted to the site. :D!

And thirdly, anyone who read the old three-chapter excerpt may be interested in knowing that there's a re-edited version- presumably the final to-be-published version- of the first chapter, which is different in small but significant ways to the original, and has replaced the old three. So yeah, check that out.

And Wizards At War's finished and at the publishers, in case y'all didn't know already; its estimated release date is July this year, so that's cool too. :D

Um. It would be nice to know how many people there are who find my periodic newsspam worthwhile; I'm still never sure how many people actually do visit the sites. So, er, just comment if you actually read this whole thing. ;)

And the first of the fic recs!

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I wanted them, I should do them myself, right? :D So, since the general outcome of conuly's poll was that people were okay or indifferent to the idea of fic recs and/or postings here, I'm going to start doing thim. Probably infrequently, but it's all good.

Reccage

I'm going to start off (because I'm tired, and it's easy) by reccing four stories by persephone_kore, co-written with Alan Sauer; mostly because they're really good AND I know where to find them (always a plus.) So... links and the author's summary follow. These are all spoilers up until A Wizard's Holiday, so they're under the cut.

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Um, so, you guys should totally rec other stories too, right? ;) And your own! Pimp your own stories. I'll even pimp my one to get the ball rolling, although it pains me. Because if we pimp here maybe people who don't write will start, right? :D This fandom needs more ficcers, people, go to it!