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Hello, all. It’s been several months since I did a wrap up
article and since then so much has changed. This year has seen Darkfaery
covering a lot of great events. I haven’t been keeping our friends, fans, and
readers as up to date as I should and for that I am very sorry. If you haven’t
heard yet, we face some tragedies over the last few months. The house where Z
and I live, which also serves as our home office, was pounded with rare large
hail balls. Most of our staff was here at the time and they also suffered damage
to their cars and emotions in ways I can begin to explain. Soon after the hail
storm Oklahoma City was hit with a flood and it became apparent that the tarps
on our roof were not going to hold so our house was also flooded from above.

We don’t qualify for any kind of aid or help from local or federal government so we’re
scraping by to come up with the $32,000 in damages ourselves. As such, we won’t
be able to put the magazine in stores for another year or so.

Our number of volunteers has dropped slightly and we haven’t had any new recruits for a few
months, but we are always eager to bring in new people. We can’t expand without
fresh faces and radical new ideas, so if you have any we’d love for you to join
our group.

In better news, we’ve had a lot of fun with what we have accomplished. Events we have been
a part of were largely successful. Among them you can count Underground Horror
fest 1, Night of the Fallen Angels, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rock and Roll
Garage Sale, and Soonercon as great experiences.
We’ve met a lot of cool people this year who have been very supportive
of our endeavors and we hope this sort of above and beyond support continues
while we regroup and try to get our shit together.

I may sound a little fatal, but really we have the rest of the year to go and still quite a
few events to get through. The next convention we are a part of is Oklahoma
Horror Film Fest. The Festival will be held at Tulsa’s Spirit Bank Event Center
located in the Regal Plaza off Memorial between 101st and 111th. You can find
more info at

http://www.oklahomahorrorfilmfest.com/

In a few days to a week issue five will go on sale on our website. We are just two issues away
from our 1 year return to print anniversary. I hope you are enjoying all the
hard work we have put into this magazine. Believe me when I say it isn’t as easy
as it looks.

I know we usually have our October schedule completed by
now, but we have made no commitments for October, if you’d like us to make a
guest appearance or have the Darkfaery girls whip something up for your
Halloween events please let us know ASAP because October fills up fast for us.
We usually have events every weekend in October and occasionally during the
week, so don’t hesitate to bring us in on new things. We are kind of getting
burned out on the same old schedule.

I wanted to bring to light a few things that have been mentioned to me lately and see if I
can’t address some comments. Our free online PDF version has a lot of readers
from all over the world that makes it hard for us to just show up at your
concert or venue by receiving e-vites. A few people have commented to me that
they send me electronic invitations all the time and yet Darkfaery has never
been to a show, done a review or made any attempt. If you don’t send me a
personal invite asking me to bring the DFGs or attend as the magazine I don’t
think of it as anything other than a mass invitation. Otherwise, it just sits
with the other 7,000 event invites on MySpace and Facebook that I don’t want to
deal with. We are not snubbing you, ask us like we matter.

Having said all this I’d like to thank the people who support us and offer us booth space or
stage time or promotional materials or just anything that you have done to help
us exist. All we want is to keep doing what we love and keep you doing what you
love. So do what you love and love what you do, why would you do anything else?

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