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Then, the next thing you need to do, if you have not already, is sign up for the PJF Mailing list. We typically send one newsletter a month and most of the time it lets you know about things before they make it on the monthly update, which is on (or near) the 9th of each month. In fact, sometime in January, and then again in February, we will be adding more books to the Estate Sale page. These are books by some of Phil's favorite authors: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, A. Conan Doyle, Lord Dunsany and others. As well as what may well be one of the greatest collections of Sir Richard Francis Burton in the United States. So, if you don't want to risk being the last to know about these books, sign up for the mail list and be one of the first.

We'll have to wait to for the next monthly update to talk about the sixth installment in the Shadowmen series, TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN: GRAND GUIGNOL, since it just arrived yesterday. Even if you are not familiar with most of the French characters found within, if you enjoy reading tales from the era of Sherlock Holmes and Raffles, you will enjoy the entire Shadowmen series. Volume 6 however, is of special interest to Farmer fans because so many of the authors are also Wold Newton Scholars: Christopher Paul Carey, Win Scott Eckert, Matthew Baugh & Micah Harris, Rick Lai, and Dennis E. Power; and you just never know if and when they might slip something in there for the careful reader to pick up on.

No news to report about the Riverworld mini-series due out in 2010, except that Scifi Wire listed it on their complete midseason preview of 31 hot sci-fi/fantasy shows. Reading through the list, there are actually a lot of good shows to look forward to this year, as science fiction continues to take over television.

As you may recall, on the August 2009 update I (Mike) talked about a trip to England where Paul Spiteri, Win Eckert and myself (along with our families) visited the Wold Newton Monument. My wife Lisa, who is really good at this sort of thing, decided to make a memento of the trip for each family; so she made three miniature models of the Wold Newton Monument. Here is a picture of mine. It is much cooler in person than in the picture, I've gotten up from my desk to look closely at it almost every day for about three weeks now.

Win Eckert alerted us to a bit of a controversy online regarding the Wold Newton Universe and what Sean Levin is doing to try and clean up the mess. The issue is that there are rules: research that needs to be done, articles that need to be written, to establish someone in the Wold Newton Universe. You can't just decide to list several hundred characters and declare they are in the WNU for no apparent reason. Thank you Sean for your effort, we'll be watching your progress with great interest.

Vladimir Verano (Farmerphile #13 cover artist) is now running the Espresso Book Machine at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, Washington. Wow, that is so cool, you know what they say...if I could do that, I'd never leave the house. Their search engine for books that can be printed still needs some work, but this could be a fantastic way get your hands on hard-to-find out-of-print books for very little money. Chris Carey, who told us about this, also pointed out Third Place Book's blog which we plan to follow and see what future wonders they produce.

The hit counter as of January 10th says 257,663 which is 2,201 visits to this main page (not the entire website) since our last update on Decemnerr 9th.