Aotearapa

Aotearapa NZ SF&F Amateur Press Association (Apa)

Think of it as a slow motion news group. 8^) How does it work? Simple. You need to produce two pages every two months, photocopy your conTRIB “X” number of times (currently 11 copies required - that is 11 members copies and two copies to hand out to interested persons.), post this ’TRIB off to the Editor before the due date (the first of the month - every second month), then wait for Dan to return to you the latest “Stew”

Wo’s a “Stew”? I hear you ask? Below is a sample of the latest “Moa Bone Stew” Number 148 for mailing Number 149 (Don’t ask - yes, there was a mailing number zero...) The stew outlines who has contributed to the mailing, the name of their contribution and how many pages they have produced.

How much does it cost? Well, I’m glad we got around to that. If you live in New Zealand, it’s not going to cost too much at all. No matter where you live, the mailing will only cost you your photocopying/printing costs plus postage. For members in other countries such as Australia, Canada and the USA, the postage rates are higher, but with the rate of exchange (especially to the Americas) the exchange rate makes postage all the more attractive (!). A word of warning, don’t just send in your creative works with out any monies. As this is a non profit group, the sole costs are postage and photocopying the stew. There are NO handling costs, you retain any copyrights on your own work.

. Last update on Monday, January 03, 2005 by the webmaster.

Keep scrolling down the page for more weird and wonderful info.

Moa Bone Stew 151 Mailing 152 Next mailing due: days ’til January 7th, 2005. Note, 11 copies required Nicholas Smeaton will accept contributions for this mailing until 01st of January, 2004 (at which point he will continue to accept mailings). Apan Contrib Title Pages Total James Dignan amoeba Ye olde silver anniversarie statystickal round up 5 11 Simon Greenfield 3 Andrew Ivamy Tim Jones The Longford Gazette Volume 5, No. 1 8 Dan McCarthy Panopticon 26 McCarthy’s tested Gut Traces 23 6 Nicholas Smeaton Nickronomicom 76 3 Rex Thompson Moa Bone Stew Constitution 2 2 2 37 Bylaws of Aotearapa Dues are $5.00, replenished when the balance falls below $1.50 Page count (minac) is 6pp per 3 bi-monthly mailings (6 pages/six months) in as many identical copies as the OE deems necessary (Currently 11 copies for the 11 members) for distribution to the members. Membership limit is 34. Deadlines are January, March, May, July, September and November on the 1st of the month. An extension of minac will be granted to a member if the OE is informed of reasons by letter, phone [or e-mail] before the minac deadline. NB: Aotearapa is a regular collation of correspondence as defined in its constitution for circulation to it’s membership and is not within the ISSN/ISBN scope. (’cause Murray said so).

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Next mailing due: January 7th, 2005. Note, 11 copies required

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James Dignan

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Tim Jones

My first collection of short fiction, consisting of 12 stories, most 
of them SF, has just been published by HeadworX Publishers in 
Wellington. I had hoped to bring copies to OdysseyCon, but the book 
wasn’t ready in time. Therefore, I am looking for other ways to 
publicise the book to SF fans, especially those in Auckland. Martin 
Kealey advised me to send the information to this address. Can you 
distribute it to Stella Nova members?

Further information about Extreme Weather Events, including a cover 
image and sample story, is available at 
http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz/fiction/extreme.php3

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Regards
Tim Jones

TITLE		Extreme Weather Events
AUTHOR		Tim Jones
PUBLISHER	HeadworX Publishers
FORMAT		Paperback, 110x176mm
EXTENT		124 pages
ISBN		0-473-07387-0
RRP		NZ$19.95

DISTRIBUTOR:	Addenda Limited
		PO Box 78-224
		Grey Lynn
		Auckland

AVAILABILITY:	Available in, or by ordering, from NZ bookshops. In 
case of difficulty, see 
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~timjones/orders.html#ewe for further 
information about ordering the book.

Extreme Weather Events is the debut book of stories by Tim Jones.

The stories in Extreme Weather Events take place in a past just a 
little different from the one recorded in the history books (“The
Pole”), in the corporate present (“Black Box”, “The New Land”), in 
cyberspace (“The Temple in the Matrix”), and in the future (“The Kiwi
Contingent”, “Maria and the Tree”). They find a home somewhere in the 
uncharted region bounded by science fiction, horror, and magic 
realism.

About the Author

Tim Jones has been published widely in magazines and anthologies, 
including The NeXt Wave (1998), Extremes (USA, 2000), and in Boys’ 
Own Stories (2000) and the 100 NZ Short Short Stories anthologies 
from Tandem Press. He lives in Wellington and divides his time 
between writing, being a husband and father, and maintaining web 
sites.

Printed with permission.

Michael Smeaton

Nicholas Smeaton

Rex Thompson

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