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Book Contract Lore
- 4/26/2007 [1:26am est]

REF has agreed to a new contract with HapperCollins/Voyager in the UK and Avon/EOS in the US to a six book deal.

He will finish Wrath of a Mad God later this year sometime in the fall.

The deal is to write two books for the 4th Riftwar titled the DemonWar saga. Then he will write three books for the final 5th Riftwar being titled as the ChoasWar Saga which will wrap off the Riftwar cycle and then REF will move on to a sixth book set entirely in a new environment (maybe this is his Jigsaw Lady or something entirely different than that). Then he intends to write some sort of special project that will some way wrap up the Krondor Series but details and if this is possibility is questionable.

Tour 2006 Lore
- 6/04/2006 [5:26pm est]

There is a new REF tour coming to England-Ireland. Check the current dates and time for availability and meetings.

Raymond's "England-Ireland" Tour 2006

Mailing list change Lore
- 6/02/2006 [11:26pm est]

The server that host the Feist mailing list has changed. Its been moved to a new server that has better stability and in reason less e-mail list drop. If your currently on the list you shouldn’t have to do anything as your e-mail address should have migrated during the change over.
But now there is a new change on how to subscribe and unsubscribe from the list.

To subscribe:
Send a email to lyris@cornell.edu
In the message: join feistfans-l "your name"

You MUST include the quotation marks around your name, and you MUST send the message in PLAIN TEXT. Check your programs documentation on how to send Text only messages.

To unsubscribe:
Send a email to lyris@cornell.edu
In the message: leave feistfans-l

Make sure that you send the leave command from the address you subscribed to the mailing list from.

For more information and commands go to http://www.cit.cornell.edu/computer/elist/lyris/user-custom.html

Father of Lists Lore
- 5/07/2006 [7:19pm est]

For you weird people who are just curious about REF background or Family History. When Ray was young his father died early and was adopted by Felix Feist changing Ray's and his brother last name from Gonzalez.

Ray's family history starting on his biological father side where original Basque. His grandparents were born in Mexico and moved to Texas. Rays father was born in Texas and his uncle was born in Mexico when his Grandmother went back to Mexico for a visit and went in to labor while visiting. Rays grandfather was a member of Los Angeles Philharmonic, though REF has no direct relation to jazz and classic guitar player Raymond Gonzalez. Ray himself was born in California. His mother was Anglo-Saxon (European). His Step-father heritage was New York Jewish but was a practicing Christian. So Rays upbringing doesn't have much Latino influence as you might have original thought.

Now if your wonder what books REF is planning at this moment to write for the up coming series. Conclave (if you haven't got all of them yet) is going to consist of three novels. Darkwar has three planned. While the forth Riftwar is still unnamed might be all in one book. The last Riftwar : Demonwar (or Godswar) will be three novels. Of course this may change when he actually writes them.

Below is a list of the Hardcovers available:

	UK	USA
Exiles Return(Conclave)	September 2004	March 2005
Flight Of The Nighthawks	September 2005	April 2006
Into A Dark Realm	September 6, 2006	April 1, 2007 (update)

Finally Honored Enemy (Paperback) is slated for the USA on June 27, 2006 according to Barnes and Noble. Amazon says it’s a July 1, 2006 release, but I’m thinking Amazon.com might by crossing their dates with their UK equivalent. As Jimmy the Hand is consider as being already out in the US when clearly it is not.

Return Lore
- 2/19/2006 [9:00pm est]

After a long absence being sick REF is back on the mailing-list and official announced that he will be attending the Imaginales in Epinal France on May 11 to the 14.

Contest Winners Lore
- 8/5/2005 [9:45pm est]

We have the finalist of the contest that was held back in February. But instead of receiving a signed by REF Exile Return, they will receive a signed ARC of Flight of the Nighthawks. Winners please wait until REF can notify you that he has the signed books to send address to him for shipping. And all contestants do NOT post up your entries. Posting your entry is a violation of the contract thing you agreed to when you turned the entry in. You’re the author of the character not the owner. REF now owns the character. So don't post the entry or show it around, I deleted mine a long time ago. That might be a good idea for you to not be tempted.

The winners are: Ray Annis, David Marcus, Carl Dershem, Bonnie Stewart.

REF did have a difficult time narrowing down to these four with all the entries that where turned in. So congratulation to the winners and all those who had entered, you all made REF make some very hard decisions.

Clarification Lore
- 4/11/2005 [2:45pm mst]

This is just to update you on the books that are released. I didn't realize its been two months since I last checked at Barnes 'N' Noble. So that is my fault as I prepared to go too GDC (Game Developer Conference), checking wasn’t a priority.

Conclave of Shadows
(HardCover) Talon the Silver Hawk - all market release.
(PaperBack) Talon the Silver Hawk - all market release.
(HardCover) King of Foxes   - all market release.
(PaperBack) King of Foxes   - all market release.
(HardCover) Exile's Return   - all market release.
(PaperBack) Exile's Return   - available in UK market. US market release is Unknown But would guess Early Spring.

Darkwar Saga
(HardCover) Flight of the Nighthawks - UK market release in 9-5-5. US is Unknown.
(PaperBack) Flight of the Nighthawks - Unknown.
Into a Dark Realm - Being Written.
Wrath of a Mad God - Hasn't been started so is highly subject to change.
 
(HardCover) Legends 2: the Messenger - all market release, but hard to find.
(PaperBack) Legends 2: the Messenger - all market release, but hard to find.

Strippers Lore
- 2/7/2005 [5:32pm mst]

REF has created a new Contest in the mailing list. The following is edited clip from the post starting the contest. Please follow the rules and get your entry in by Febuaray Sunday 13th.

Description

You play the part of a TV writer who's going to make a pitch for a new regular character on a TV show about a strip club. Consider it "Cheers with breasts." To be fair, the contest can be sex-linked or not depending on your orientation, gender, and ability to fantasize. But your goal is to create a fascinating character that works or is a patron of a strip club establishment. Give them motivation, personality type, a brief physical description, and most importantly a psychological profile. Meaning why is the person at the club, are they seeking fast cash or they feel emotion and socially inadequate to talk to women so this provides them an outlet or that social ability. No “they don’t want to be there but they have no choice.”

Recognize that all entries will become the Property of Raymond Ellis Feist.

Here are the rules:

1) One Character per person. NO MULTIPLE ENTRIES. You get one bash at it. One try. No more. No changing your mind and saying, "Throw away the first one, this is now my new entry."

2) Place word ‘Contest’ in the in the header or Title of the e-mail and copy and paste the follow disclaimer exactly word for word at the bottom of your e-mail:

By submitting this entry in Raymond E. Feist's "Create a character" contest, I hereby relinquish all rights in said character, likeness, and dramatic use thereof. I hereby attest the character is created by myself and is original for this contest.

3)E-mail all entries to REF at: raymond@bittersea.com Contest by 12 midnight Pacific Standard Time on Sunday, Febuary 13th , 2005.

Tv deal Lore
- 2/7/2005 [5:32pm mst]

New year, new outrageous news. REF has announced a TV deal with Red Lion Entertainment of L.A., California. What the deal entitles has not been released or if the Los Angeles based company will actual have a show or whats it about. What was revealed was that its not based in Medikemia or fantasy in general. Plus looking for a site I came across a finical issue with a Red Lion Entertainment back in 1992 filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. http://static.highbeam.com/v/videobusiness/march201992
/westcoastunderwentslowdeclinewestcoastvideoenterpr/ According to REF these are new guys. But its going to be hell if they are competing against the old Goodwill and damaging Trademark from the 90 era.

Further News on this is that the show REF could be writing for will be pitched to HBO or Showtime. So since its not SciFi and the tone that it will not be on any of the air networks like Fox or NBC I can only 'assume' (and I'm speculating here) that it might be too racy to show besides on HBO or Showtime. What confirms my speculation is that REF is having a contest to create a TV Character that exist in a strip club like setting.

Also REF will be turning in Flight of the Nighthawks in to HarperCollins/MorrowAvon by the end of February. Which means the book will probably be released some time this year in Europe and late next year in the States.