Assistant Editor/Nonfiction Editor/Art Director Douglas Cohen has announced the contents of the December 2009 issue of Realms of Fantasy, the third under Tir Na Nog’s aegis.
Fiction in this issue will include:
“A Road Once Traveled” by Richard Parks (illustrated by Tiffany Prothero)
“Felicity’s Engine” by Sharon Mock (illustrated by Dave Leri)
“Stories of the Sand” by Dirk Strasser (illustrated by Carol Heyer)
“In Time of Despair and Great Darkness” by Ken Scholes (illustrated by David Michael Beck)
“Narrative of a Beast’s Life” by Cat Rambo (illustrated by Alan M. Clark)
Cohen also notes that this issue marks “the return of the graphic novel column, under new columnist, Andrew Wheeler. I should also mention that this issue we’re using an evergreen article for the movie/TV column that was originally written for Sovereign Media. With this article, we will have burned through all the nonfiction inventory from Sovereign Media. So in the nonfiction department, the transition from Sovereign Media to Tir Na Nog Press is complete once this issue comes out.” The rest of the nonfiction in the issue includes the usual game and book review columns, and this issue’s artist’s gallery, which features Jill Bauman.
The cover (which is also a piece of interior art for the issue) is by Carol Heyer. Cohen says “this is the first interior illustration to accomapny a story to also be used for the cover of the magazine.”