Your chart prepared by Susan Rendell. Includes one-hour counseling session, plus a printed summary of the main elements of the chart. And a cup of tea. Also included: audio book of In the Chambers of the Sea, Rendell’s award-winning collection of short stories. One year subscription for you, plus one to give as a gift and a healthy dose of good karma and our gratitude.  (2 available)

Astrologer will need date, time and place of birth. (If the time is not known, I can still provide a fair bit of basic information.)

Choose a focus: What’s up with me right now? Why is my kid acting like that? Are my husband/boyfriend (wife/girlfriend) and I compatible? (For the latter, I need the other half’s birth info.) Career, love, kids and whatever else you can think of . . .

Susan Rendell is the author of In the Chambers of the Sea, which won the Newfoundland and Labrador/Bennington Gate Book Award for Fiction and was short-listed for the Danuta Gleed Award and the Winterset Award. It also garnered a Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council’s Emerging Artist of the Year Award for its author.

Twist of Capelin (edition/350), 12 x 12

Giant Squid (edition/250), 9 x 12

Peter Pan (edition/350), 12 x 18

Only one of each print available. **

Graham says about his work, “Each of my print editions begins as a sketch transferred onto a piece of hardwood which I then carve in relief using a combination of knives and gouges. Although I do not make Japanese-style prints, my process of making woodcuts is informed by Japanese methods where a bevelled knife is used to do most of the cutting and gouges with different curvatures are used to remove the non-image area. Each impression is hand-printed by burnishing (or rubbing) the back of the paper with a bamboo spoon after the block has been inked.”

“We Walked and Were Unwelcome.” Encaustic painting by Angela Antle. Measures three feet by two feet.

Landscape painting by Lisa Moore. Painting is framed and measures 11 in. by 16 in.

It’s a Mobius strip and you can wrap it around your neck once for a loose fit or twice for snug. Or you can use it as a hood. It’s good outdoors or in a drafty house.

Also included is a copy of the hardcover British edition of Winter’s award-winning novel, Annabel. Inside page illustrated by Winter. One of a kind.

**Note: There is only ONE of these available.**

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Hungry? Hungry for brazen and beautiful fiction, exquisitely tuned poetry, fresh fakelore, haunting creative non-fiction, and incisive reviews? Dig in to Riddle Fence #8. Perhaps you’d like to start with the unforgettable new story from Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, “Yuri of the Park,” or Rachel Lebowitz’s moving “Nursery Rhyme.” Or literally feast your eyes on photography from Doreen Kennedy and Gregory Knott. Then enjoy David Hallett’s in-depth discussion of what critics are calling the most unusual novel of 2010, Jeff Bursey’s Verbatim.  Savour what Samuel Thomas Martin heard in his review of Rattling Books’s Earlit 4. Come back for more poetry from Damian Rogers and a new short story from Robert Sternberg. Let Sonny Assu and Janet Fraser open your eyes. Let Sara Tilley and Frank Babics wind you round with layers and layers of storytelling. And, oh yes, there’s more.

Riddle Fence #8 is on its way to stores and subscribers. Ask for Riddle Fence if your favourite bookstore hasn’t caught on yet. Or go one better than what commerce decides and subscribe for yourself. Hey, the Writers’ Trust of Canada calls us one of the top literary magazines in Canada.

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