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The MORGAINE GRAPHICS

We can sell you copies of these graphics at a deep discount. There is an address below. But here follows the tangled tale of their creation...

Some years ago Jane S. Fancher contacted me with a proposal to render my novel GATE OF IVREL into a graphic novel.

There followed a black & white version of volume 1. But Fancher's solo effort was picked up by Donning-Starblaze and produced on slick stock in full color.

Jane Fancher, at the time living on the West Coast, adapted, scripted, pencilled, inked, colored, and lettered volume 1's complete revision and redrawing as CLAIMING RITES. I did commentary and technical advice.

By the time volume 2 was in the works, she had an office adjacent to mine and enlisted my assistance, since she'd found out I can sketch...so I ended up doing a bit of the villains of Leth, as well as the gold background script during the flashback sequence, and I even interpolated Jane's far-traveled cat Elrond into the kitchens of Leth. I also entered her lettering into the computer and produced the script. Sticking the dialogue to the artwork required chemical masks and lines of dialogue stuck to hands, clothing, the floor of Fancher's office, and the carpet. It was an adventure, of which, perhaps fortunately, no photographs exist.

Donning was supposed to have given me a byline saying "scum and villainy by C.J. Cherryh,' but they left it out. (Sigh.)

And why are we selling it?

Due to various circumstances, the first book was issued without advertising and the second volume was first delayed and then sent into backlist before it was issued....and then Donning ceased to be in the graphics business as best I can describe the situation.

Rather than see two years' work go without an effort to save it...we became the proud and quixotic owners of all the MORGAINE GRAPHICS there are left. No, Fancher's adaptation didn't get through the whole Gate of Ivrel. Meanwhile she turned to writing novels of her own. But my complete novel of Gate of Ivrel can be had from DAW Books...so you won't be left without the whole story. There are even several more novels: Well of Shiuan, Fires of Azeroth, and Exile's Gate. And who knows? If we sell these it would finance the production of more volumes, which are sketched, if not inked or printed.

If you live in the US and would like to purchase a set of the two graphics, (which is Volume 1, CLAIMING RITES and Vol. 2, FEVER DREAMS,) we will throw in free the original black and white graphic free... and sign the lot of them, if you wish.

All copies are original condition, unissued, signed and even personalized on request by both Jane S. Fancher and C.J. Cherryh

Afterwards and forewards by both, including David A. Cherry.

Page count is about 70 physical pages, slick, color, per volume of the color volumes, and their issue price was 7.95 per volume. So you're getting two color volumes for your 12.00 total, plus the keepsake black and white original issue, plus our signatures [if you want them personalized as well as signed, indicate to whom you want them dedicated, and we will happily do that. The price may soon go up, as we've had two postage increases since we set that price, and the total is now a hefty one, but we're going to hang on at the US shipping at 12 for a while.]

TO ORDER from within the US: contact CJ at: cj@cherryh.com if you want them personalized. If you just want to read them, contact srosen@lstran.com and she will ship them to you.

This purchases both color volumes and the black and white, and includes shipping.

TO ORDER FROM OUTSIDE THE US: We are still trying to figure how to make a transaction with non-US currency safely where our banks (in the deep interior of the US) make it very difficult to get money exchanged. (You have to go to one specific bank downtown, in a city of half a million people, and it's not easy. to park or to find a teller who can do it, and then they want to charge you huge amounts for processing it. Never come to the US central region with any notion of finding Currency Exchanges.) If anyone from lands where exchange is sensible and easy could fill us in on how to accomplish this easier and in a way in which we can still break even we will listen to suggestions. We're not retailers, we don't know the procedures, but we have established that it is legal to ship overseas.

In the interim, far easier because of handling more copies at a time, we would be deliriously happy sell to a bookseller in the US or overseas who may be able to sell to you. If you will give our address to your favorite online bookseller, and ask them to contact us for copies in whatever quantity, we will be glad to do any personalized signatures requested and help them fill your order.

BOOKSELLERS, ONLINE AND OTHERWISE: To obtain prices and full information on multi-copy deals, send a SASE to the address given above.

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH AN ORDER: please advise us at the address above.