Where did the time go? It seems only yesterday I was toying with the idea of starting this magazine, fearing perhaps I would not receive any submissions, and then wondering if anyone would even bother stopping in if I did.

But you proved month after month that the Historical Fiction genre is indeed alive. You’ve filled twelve issues of these cyber-pages with your engaging, exciting, and enchanting prose, and, better still, you keep coming back for more. No editor, I’m certain, could have wished for more, nor been as lucky, so I thank you for making this a year to remember.

But unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, or at least that’s what they say. As many of you know, I have chosen to cut back on my workload with the magazine. Your vehement letters of protest made this a difficult decision, and I am actually grateful for this...had no one cared, I would have called it a day long ago. Still, I find myself at a loss for time and, as I have hinted at in several issues, have opted to lessen my workload with the magazine.

This, then, is the last monthly issue of Of Ages Past Magazine. Beginning next year, it will become a quarterly offering...March, June, September, and December.

Now, this is not to say that future issues will be the same size as each of the past monthly issues...indeed, I am actually picturing the quarterly issues being three in one...each crammed with dozens of short stories, novel excerpts, book reviews, and articles. (Where I find myself lacking in hours is in regards to the actual HTML programming--it seems just when I put an issue up at the site, I have to begin the process all over again for the next month.) Therefore, doing all this crazy programming once every three months will free up a considerable amount of time, time required for me to get back into writing my own fiction.

Additionally, the magazine, after the first of the year, will be moving. I shan’t bore you with all the reasons for this decision, but the obvious and obnoxious “pop-up banners” forced upon me became the proverbial “last straw.” Therefore, the three-month lag between this and the next issue will be spent slowly transferring the hundreds of archive pages to a new location and setting up shop for the future.

Nevertheless, you’ve made this a terrific year, and I wanted you to know how much I appreciate it.

Now, on to the offerings in the last monthly issue....

One deserving author has been named “Historical Fiction Author of the Month.” I encourage all of you to read her interview and visit her homepage, not to mention snatch up copies of her books.

In this month’s Articles, author Joyce Soule provides some great advice for writers who suffer from that horrible and dreaded affliction called “Writer’s Block.”

In this month’s Book Reviews, avid readers of historical fiction give their opinion on more than a dozen new releases.

In this month’s Short Stories, author Dr Bob Rich shares his “First Command,” a tale of war and intrigue; Larry D. Griffin offers us “Emily,” a story of love and murder set in the days before the Great Depression; Liz Palmer provides us with “My Father’s Gift,” a tale of one man’s need to maintain his father’s reputation; while novelist K. G. McAbbe, along with her cousin P. M. McAbee, takes us for another tongue-in-cheek romp with the ever-popular Wisteria Bozomheave.

In this month’s Novel Excerpts, acclaimed author Claire Delacroix gives us a taste of The Moonstone, a new and sweeping historical romance; Kim D. Headlee offers an engaging chapter of her recently-released novel Dawnflight: The Legend of Guinevere; novelist Debra Tash provides us with several chapters of Challenge The Wind, an epic of the American Revolution; while Kaye Kelly shares a chapter of her gripping novel Mecca’s Gold.

Thanks, not only for visiting, but for the past year of support and encouragement with the magazine. As I mentioned above, it’s been a year I will not forget, and I truly appreciate all you have done to make it possible.

Enjoy!