If you're a fantasy or sci-fi fan and you're free on June 13-15 you might want to visit Dallas for the FedConUSA, the fantasy and sci-fi convention. For location, activities and guest info visit the convention website at FedConUSA.com .

After a long break we're coming back with a new gallery of avatars for our Fantasy fans! :-) This time we're presenting you a great collection of fantasy avatars with images of dragons. You can download the gallery here .

Dragonlance.com: Margaret and Jamie were recently interviewed by The Wandering Geek, where we talk about the company and our various product lines. Hear the whole episode right here!

Variety.com: In a major step forward on “The Hobbit,” Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct the New Line-MGM tentpole and its sequel. The widely expected announcement - which had been rumored for several weeks -- came Thursday afternoon jointly from exec producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, New Line president Toby Emmerich, and Mary Parent, newly named chief of MGM’s Worldwide Motion Picture Group.

Read more on Variety.com .

Not sure how reliable is this information, but Amazon is showing September 30, 2008 as a publication Date for "A Dance with Dragons" . The book is available in pre-order in our Fantasy Shop: A Dance with Dragons .

The creators of Lord of the Rings movie trilogy out of job? Seems so...
Variety.com: It's the end of the line for most of New Line, with Time Warner cutting 450 jobs as part of its earlier decision to fold the studio into Warner Bros. The pinkslips, announced Monday afternoon, leave New Line with 40-50 employees. A Time Warner spokesman said about 40 New Line employees are being offered jobs within Warner Bros.

Read more on Variety.com website.

The first two official Wheel Of Time wallpaper have been published on the Tor.com website. First wallpaper has a Snake-wheel symbol from Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, designed by Matthew C. Nielsen. The second one is Darrell K. Sweet’s painting: The Dragon Reborn.

You can download the wallpapers on Tor.com .

The Darkwar rages upon Midkemia and Kelewan, bringing bleak days of destruction and despair. To save the future of both worlds, the powerful sorcerer Pug and select members of the secretive Conclave of Shadows must journey deep into the dangerous realm of the bloodthirsty Dasati, there to carry out an audacious mission that has little, if any, chance of succeeding.

New book of Reymond E. Feist is conquering the New York Times Bestsellers list!
Read more about it and order it on Amazon.com .

MuggleNet.com: JK Rowling and Warner Bros. are currently involved in a court case against RDR Books and the HP Lexicon regarding a print version of the online Lexicon. Some of Jo's main reasons for taking legal action against this book are that she feels it is in breach of copyright of the Harry Potter novels, is not worthwhile to the reader (in that it provides very little commentary, most of which is "derisory" and "facetious"), and that it could detrimentally affect sales of an all-inclusive encyclopedia which she has long expressed a desire to write and from which sales revenue would be donated to charity.

To read more about the trial go to www.MuggleNet.com .

Discworld Monthly: Terry has asked that if you want to donate to Alzheimers Research UK, please donate direct to the charity (not via some of the websites that have popped up claiming to offer this service) if for no other reason than that by donating direct to the charity you can guarantee that 100% of your money gets to them.

To make a donation visit http://www.alzheimers-research.org.uk and please remember to mention "Terry Pratchett" in the notes section.