Publisher Brian Hades confirmed four new Okal Rel Legacies titles at August 2011 conference in Calgary, When Words Collide: Opus 6 anthology, and three novellas. Novella authors are Hal Friesen, Craig Bowlsby and Lexie Pakulak. All three authors have previously published in earlier Opus anthologies. The Okal Rel Legacies series is published by Absolute XPress, an imprint of Hades Publications. The Okal Rel Saga novel series by BU member Lynda Williams is published by Edge Science Fiction and
Fantasy Publishing, which is also an imprint of Hades Publications. Cover art work for the new books will be by Michelle Milburn with story sketches commissioned from Richard Bartrop. For details see http://okalrel.org/wanted/

Labels: Craig Bowlsby, Hal Friesen, Lexie Pakulak, Michelle Milburn, Okal Rel Legacies, Opus 6, Richard Bartrop

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Second installment of the re-reading project is up on re-reading the Okal Rel Saga blog. And ORU art features on Michelle's Art By Michelle Monzaga Milburn site, which is also cool.

Labels: Amel, Michelle Milburn, Part 1: Courtesan Prince, re-reading

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Part 7: Healer's Sword is on the Edge website listed with releases for summer/fall of 2011 complete with Michelle Milburn's lovely cover picture of Ilse Marin against a battlewheel backdrop that is nicely suggestive of Horth featuring in her life. :-)

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Very pleased with Michelle Milburn's cover for Part 7 of the Okal Rel Saga, Healer's Sword.

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Shot of new cover for Horth in Killing Reach and two stages in the development of Part 7: Healer's Sword covers feature on website of artist Michelle Milburn. Also the lovely cover of the next book in Nathalie Mallet's Prince Amir Mystery Series, in which her hero wanders a quasi-historical world, troubled by magic, after escaping his gilded cage. Gotta get that one! Enjoyed the first two in the series.

Labels: Craig Bowlsby, Horth in Killing Reach, Michelle Milburn, Nathalie Mallet, Part 7: Healer's Sword

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Slice of the cover of Opus 5. I'm still going back and forth with the publisher on proofing but it is SO close now, at last!

Labels: Absolute XPress, Christina Rundle, Elizabeth Woods, Hal Friesen, Jennifer Lott, Michelle Milburn, Opus 5, Richard Bartrop, Sandra Fitzpatrick

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Labels: Horth in Killing Reach, Horth Nersal, Michelle Milburn

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Great poster by artist Michelle Milburn for title challenge match to be featured at the Okal Rel Universe event at VCON, Saturday Oct 2, 7 p.m. Fencing instructors Devon Boorman and Craig Bowlsby will square off in a featured clash of titans. We'll also be giving away character cards, Okal Rel buttons, singing a few Okal Rel filk songs and launching Avim's Oath, Book 6 in the series, by Lynda Williams; as well as Opus 4 collection of stories set in the Okal Rel Universe and Okal Rel novella Misfit Leaves Home by Krysia Anderson.

Labels: Craig Bowlsby, Krysia Anderson, Lynda Williams, Michelle Milburn, Misfit Leaves Home, opus 4, Part 6: Avim's Oath, VCON

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Michelle and I are working on first collectible cards for Okal Rel Universe characters. Here's an idea for the back of them.

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Working on Opus 4 cover. Here's a detail from the present draft idea being pondered. Absolute XPress wants to standardize covers so we're working with Michelle Milburn on this version.

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The new look of the Absolute XPress site is very nice. And all the better for the appearance of Opus 4 of the Okal Rel Legacies series as a forth-coming book. We've had to make an adjustment to the cover art, and are waiting for a new cover from Michelle Milburn. Opus 4 is the companion anthology themed to Part 4: Throne Price. Stories deal with ways in which the past upsets the present.

Labels: Absolute XPress, Michelle Milburn, opus 4

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Cover art bought from artist Michelle Milburn for Okal Rel Legacies novella Misfit Leaves Home by author Krysia Anderson. I'm working on edits of the manuscript. Interior text for Opus 04 is off to Absolute XPress for production.

On the Saga front, received the front material of Part 6: Avim's Oath from Edge for proofing, and I am 70,000 words into the first draft of Part 9: Holy War.

Snippet from yesterday's production on Part 9

Sam Dem’Vrel, nee O’Pearl, stood staring at the booted, broad-shouldered bulk of Arm Commander Eler Nersal filling up her family living room and could think of nothing except how completely he failed to suit the quaintly preserved hominess of the space he occupied, with its warm wooden wainscoting, out of fashion draperies and comfortably upholstered furniture.

Labels: Absolute XPress, Krysia Anderson, Michelle Milburn, Misfit Leaves Home, Okal Rel Legacies, opus 4, Part 9: Holy War

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Pictured here is one of the three banners created by Michelle Milburn for the Absolute X-Press website. Thank you, Justyn Perry, for putting them up.

Labels: art, Justyn Perry, Michelle Milburn

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Artist Michelle Milburn is working on a new look for the ORU website. Webmaster David Lott will be rebuilding the site, slowly, based on her design. Michelle is a BFA student at the University of Northern B.C. Brian Hades of Edge has also approved use of her art for some Okal Rel Legacies novellas which we hope to have up on covers by the end of the summer.

Labels: David Lott, Michelle Milburn, Okal Rel website

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News from KP about the Part 5: Far Arena batch of buttons.

>Hi Lynda, a road trip, what fun! I certainly hope to have the buttons by
>then (they finally got the order in from the States, and started work on
>them yesterday). Cheers Kathy Plett

Mel Farrow is thrilled to be contracted to do a fan art booklet that will make its first appearance in a 'soul touch' package for Con*Cept http://www.conceptsff.ca in Montreal, which I'll be shipping to contact Cathy Palmer-Lister the first week of September. Mel says:

>:D Will do right away! :D Hurrah!

Craig Bowlsby has agreed to advise me on Horth's big fight scene in Part 7: Healer's Sword and I've a less formal but equally game offer of medical advice from nursing faculty member and Horth-lover Heather Ouellette who said, with a threatening scowl, "If you wound Horth, you wound me!" Bless her. I asked Craig if he was "game" to advise and he said:

>Yes. I got game.
>Let me know the details.
>Craig

Publisher Brian Hades has approved the new cover for OR Legacies novella Mekan'stan by Michelle Milburn, as the first step in unifying the look of the novellas in a direction parallel the character-focused covers of the saga. Michelle has also agreed to to new covers for The Lorel Experiment and Kath to match the theme. The good work done by previous cover artists will remain in the ORU hall of fame, of course, as significant and appreciated contributions to the greater whole. But it's time to get serious about look and feel for the OR Legacies. Artist Richard Bartrop will continue to do cover and interior art for the anthologies. Next two scheduled are 4 and 5. Michelle has also agreed to apply her certificate in web design to the ORU website since it is time I stopped being stubbornly Demish about changes to my 'messy desk' organization on that front and got some professional help. Look forward to discussing it with her on our trip to Terrace in May if arrangements for going together pan out ...

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I particularly loved this piece by Michelle Milburn, titled Seeking Solace. It was one of the works she created for the Deviant Art "100 theme" challenge. Not only is it lovely, but it struck a resonance for me with the streets of Demora. I'm writing about Demora right now in Part 6: Avim's Oath. Michelle is working on her MFA degree if I'm not mistaken. Right Michelle? And in addition to being an artist, she writes.

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Came across Michelle Milburn doing art classes for the Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George, B.C. when looking at PGFreePress.com. Go Michelle!


Michelle is also a member of the Norspec Writers group and did the art work for Hiding Low , my first youtube.com project featuring the Okal Rel Universe.

Labels: Flight Cycle, Michelle Milburn

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