Welcome to Closed Circle

There’s not a lot on the shelves, yet, but enough for a taste of what’s to come.

So c’mon in, grab a glass of bubbly and a cookie

(our personal favorite’s the Russian Tea Cake)

and take a look around.

But while we’ve got you here…

A toast!

To Elaine, for pushing and shoving us into this venture.

To Chip, for suggesting the bookshelves.

To David, for all his art-advice.

And especially to all of those who gave us feedback on the site and the covers…those who scanned (are scanning) files for books whose files we’d lost. For those who’ve printed and passed out fliers. For those who’ve helped us through computer glitches and introduced us to the ins and outs of e-communication. For those who’ve offered moral support. And to those who stood ready to volunteer, or who would have if they’d had access to whatever we needed….

We started trying to make a list of people to thank. Some of you we know by your screennames and sometimes by your name-names, and at first we was going to post the list, and then we thought, no, we’ll leave somebody out by accident, and that’s not right; and then we thought: we’ll e-mail everyone.

And then we tried to put the list together and it kept growing and growing until we were sure it was going to include a sizeable slice of the membership; and we’d still wind up leaving people out, because it’s just such a looooong a list.

So what we propose is this: you have the absolute right to waylay us in the halls at any sf convention, introduce yourselves by the names we know. Then let’s just head for the bar and sit and talk in whatever numbers we can muster, because you’re friends, in our way of thinking, and we want to say a personal thank you to each and every one, for helping us launch this ship.

TFS Closed Circle is away from the dock and outward bound. So raise a glass with us and  thank you, thank you, thank you, friends, one and all.