Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter December 2007

Project news

• A fairly quiet month in November. However we had a fairly successful COTM with the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland article with 85 modifications made. The success of which I will leave to your assessment.

Member news

• The project has currently 290 members, 8 joined & 0 leavers since the start of November 2007

Task force news

• The Fantasy task force has got off to a really good start with now 13 members. Do cooperate one with another and make it really work for us.
• If any group of editors sees a need for a new "task force" then let us know. Also we can link a WikiProject in as a task force (asAustralian task force), this has the benefit of reducing the level of effort dissipation and also advertising interest areas in more than one location.

Novel related news

• The slightly controversial novel series in the fantasy genre, the The Sword of Truth series by American writer Terry Goodkind reaches its conclusion with the publication of the final novel Confessor. It is controversial for its espousal of the writer's objectivist philosophy.
• Slightly old news now but Madeleine L'Engle (born November 29, 1918), the American writer best known for her children's books, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters, has died of natural causes on September 6, 2007 taken from the Portal:Literature - news section

Current debates

• Some discussion is going on about the "Activation of Members". To which end a "clearing house" of jobs and volunteers is being trialled at Novels Job Centre. Have a look and see what you think.

From the Members

Welcome to the nineteenth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk), Initiating Editor

Collaboration of the Month

• This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Sons and Lovers.
• New suggestions always welcome!

Newsletter challenge

Last month's challenge (The Barracks) was completed by WikiProject Novels participant Blathnaid.

• The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is Maria Edgeworth's Belinda (hint).