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CHALLENGES/CONTESTS
• snupin100 posted Challenge 238: Bah Humbug

•snarry100 posted Challenge 191: Favourites

•snapedom posted The December Challenge: Why Snape?

EDITOR'S CHOICE(S)

Fic
•You Only Live Twice by anon in Snupin Santa (Snape/Lupin, Charlie/Tonks, PG-13)

Art
•Snape's Apprentice by anon in snapelyholidays (Snape/Harry, G)

DISCLAIMERS
The warnings listed here are those given by the artist/author/poet. Please pay attention to all ratings and warnings when following links.

We aim to bring you the latest Snape-centric items in the fandom but some might slip through the net! You can help to ensure this doesn't happen by sending us links via e-mail to snapenews@gmail.com). There are submission guidelines in the snapenews user profile, but for the 'Today in' sections we just require the basic title/creator/rating/warnings/link info.

Handy for updates and episode progress without needing to subscribe to each episode-progress thread on the forum! Also good for random news, when random things of newsworthiness occur.

Also: Ep 20 inking is done, and I'm now onto the scanning and toning bit. Second last step - getting ever so close now!

Current Mood:

busy

From now until the end of the year, I'm offering special discounts on three of the hardcover books offered on the Signed Books page of my website.

The Meisha Merlin trade hardcover of TUF VOYAGING, with a cover by Michael Komarck and interior illustrations by Janet Aulisio, normally sells for $29.

The Bantam Spectra hardcover reissue of WINDHAVEN, my collaboration with Lisa Tuttle, sells for $26 on the website.

And INSIDE STRAIGHT, first volume in Tor's new Wild Cards triad, goes for $27.

You can also get all three of these books for $69.

But those are the normal prices. From now through the end of the year, as a Christmas special, I'm offering each of the hardcovers for $20, or all three for $57.

Those prices include Book Rate (Media Mail) shipping within the United States. If you would prefer Priority Mail, please add $5 for a single book, or $10 for more than one. Overseas and out-of-country shipping is more; please inquire.

And of course I'm always willing to sign and inscribe the books.

Happy holidays, and good reading.

Note from the Assistant's desk:

Please email grrmbooks@gmail.com with questions regarding ordering or international shipping rates.

Current Mood:

cheerful

First, some lovely painted versions of Prince Oberyn Martell, the Red Viper of Dorne, and Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides, dueling for the life of Tyrion Lannister. Tom Meier did the sculpts, and Matt Verzani painted these for the Dark Sword studio collection.

Prince Oberyn:

The Mountain:

The Duel:

Tom is always so exacting about scale and size with his sculpts; I love how this pairing brings home Ser Gregor's monstrous size in such a vivid and visceral way. And of course Matt has done a wonderful job with the paint, as always.

And while Matt's been busy with his brush, Tom has been sculpting up a storm in his studio, and we have some great new greens to add to the range. These aren't in production yet, but look for them soon.

Here's Arya:

And Sansa:

Lady Catelyn:

And a personal favorite, Sansa building her snow castle at the Eyrie:

For more information and pictures, visit the Dark Sword website at http://darkswordminiatures.com/ And remember, miniatures make wonderful stocking stuffers for all the Ice & Fire fans in the family.

Current Mood:

happy

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Yesterday evening I was pottering around with my watercolours. I 'potter around' much more often than applying myself seriously - mostly because, though I love watercolour, it also makes me nervous, and I have to overcome my fear before I can paint something 'for real'. It is just so easy to ruin a picture if you have as little skill with watercolour as I have :/. And yet it's fun!

What I was actually supposed to be doing is to paint Christmas cards. Trouble is, I haven't got a design yet that I like enough and can replicate a dozen of times. So instead I started to mess around. That is when I decided to do a little try-out for Gawain. It's very frustrating: he's the hero of my comic (even though at this point in the narrative he hasn't been born yet), but I have such trouble getting him to look right. One thing that annoys the hell out of me is that I never manage to colour his hair properly. Gawain has glorious red hair, and it's sort of important. Now, I used to start from a basis of cadmium red because I reasoned that real red hair looks a bit orange-y. But it always looked awful on poor Gawain, and it was also pretty difficult to combine with greens and blues. It was garish. Now, I'm pretty sure that much of the failure is due to my own ineptitude at mixing colours. But, well, there's no one but me to do this, so... In my experiment of yesterday, I started from a basis of crimson with some raw sienna. I have never seen anyone with this hair colour, but it gets the point across and it is easy to combine. I like the result - even though there is, as usual, lots of other stuff wrong with the picture :s.

( Piccie! )

Current Location:	the Sleeper's Den
Current Mood:	chipper
Current Music:	something poppy on the radio

I am sorry that I have been rather a poor blogger and commenter lately. I have been busy beyond the realms of normality. I am just about to go on a 1000k trip to my mother's to pack up her house. She is moving from her long term home into a unit in a retirement village near where I live. She is getting very frail, has severe rheumatoid arthritis and is getting very anxious and she needs to be closer than 1000k to family. It is going to be hard work, a life time to sort out and tactfully dispose of….and very hot 45 degree C last time I looked *sigh* I do not like heat and that sort of heat while cleaning out a shed is going to be not at all pleasant. However I comfort myself that getting this done means I will never have to go back there again. *praise be!!!* I can scarcely express how much I do not like ridiculous amounts of heat! An aversion formed young no doubt as I grew up in Darwin…hot and dry or hot and wet but always hot. Suffice it to say I do not live there now! Fortunately my best beloved can come to so solace will be at hand, or at least some one I can whinge too. Being English he like the heat about as much as me. So I will be gone and internet-less for about a month. I can feel the withdrawal starting already. I may not have been commenting or posting but I have been reading. I am taking the laptop and will try to write and I’ll post some stuff on return. Meanwhile, thanks so much to those kind people who sent me some snowflakes recently, I really needed them, it was 36C here at the time and we are very concerned about the fire risk. I wish you all a merry, safe and hopefully cool Christmas and I will try to lift my act next year!

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COMMUNITIES
• quiz_sshg posted answers to the latest quiz contest: FFN Exclusive
• snarry_holidays posted its Week One Wrap-Up
• snapelyholidays posted Week One in Review

NEWSLETTER/ARCHIVE UPDATES
• hgss_digest Monday update
• The Petulant Poetess Snape/Hermione section, Potions Under Duress, has been updated with these G – PG-13 rated fics
• Moonshadow, the Snape/Lupin archive, has been updated in the last week

META/DISCUSSION/RANT
• territesting has a discussion going regarding Lily’s behavior in Snape’s Worst Memory

TODAY IN FIC

Threesome/Moresome/Other
• The Magic of Christmas by Anon in hp_yule_balls (Remus/Bill, Remus/Severus/Bill, NC-17, 5565 words, warnings: rimming, threesomes, light bondage, mention of double penetration)

Slash
• A Million Sharpened Pieces by Anon in snapelyholidays (Snape/Lucius, NC-17, see warnings)

RECENTLY RECOMMENDED
• No Greater Love by Anon in the Snupin Santa fest (Snape/Lupin, R)

EDITOR’S RECOMMENDATION
• The Dreams We Forget (Are The Ones We Most Regret) by Anon in hp_yule_balls (Snape/Harry, background H/G, R/Hr, NC-17, warnings: infidelity, dub-con, ~4500, + two pieces of art!)

DISCLAIMERS
The warnings listed here are those given by the artist/author/poet. Please pay attention to all ratings and warnings when following links.

We aim to bring you the latest Snape-centric items in the fandom but some might slip through the net! You can help to ensure this doesn't happen by sending us links via e-mail to snapenews@gmail.com). There are submission guidelines in the snapenews user profile, but for the 'Today in' sections we just require the basic title/creator/rating/warnings/link info.

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This is the awesome fanfic I received from flow_ez !

And this is the fanart I did for downjune !