The N3F sends us TNFF202408 and a letter from the president, George Phillies,  copied below. -CPL

Greetings from your President!

I attached yet another issue of The National Fantasy Fan. There’s a great deal in it. I hope you enjoy the contents. Note in particular the Round-Robin Bureau. The project uses a lot of Judy Carroll’s time, but if round-robin’s are becoming something of the past we should maybe try something different. Your opinions to me or her  (Judy Carroll <blueshadows2012@gmail.com>) will be most welcome.

Mentioning projects that have gone on for a while, I’ve been President of our club for close to a decade now. I’m happy to continue for the foreseeable future, but I just had my seventy-seventh birthday and would certainly be happy to start passing off aspects of this job to other people. At some point, matters will come to a stop, hopefully a smooth stop rather than something chaotic.

I currently edit this magazine, Eldritch Science, Tightbeam, and The N3f Review of Books. We just had a guest editor for Eldritch Science and could certainly use more. The magazine that’s actually the least work, though it doesn’t look that way, is The N3f Review. It’s long, but it’s all cut-and-paste, the only complicated part being to insert the cuts and pastes so the books are reviewed in alphabetical order by title. I have a list of sources, so all I do every month is go to those sources, see if they have produced book reviews for me, and put the reviews together. I also have wonderful people like Robert Runte and Tom Feller who send me reviews spontaneously. Those are most appreciated. Sending me more book reviews would also be appreciated. I confess that as I am myself an author I would certainly not complain if people would send me reviews of my own novels, but that’s too much to ask.

On a different note, we are two thirds of the way through the year. Once again, next January will launch the process that lets us create the annual N3F Laureate awards. If you see things that are Laureate-worthy, please jot down the nomination and send it to me. I’m perfectly happy to keep a file of those and put everything together at the end of the year. More nominations are good. Nominations in obscure categories like motion pictures, television, shorter fiction, and the like are certainly of great interest. If you see a fan writer or fan artist or fan poet you like, please consider nominating them to.

As always, I am phillies@4liberty.net.