Published by Plano, 2008
Language: English
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: FINE. First printing, a trade paperback original. The First Line is a quarterly journal based in Plano, Texas and founded in 1999 by David LaBounty, Robin LaBounty, and Jeff Adams. Designed to help jump-start the imagination the premise of the magazine is simple: each story in an issue begins with the same first line. This is the second anthology of stories from the journal - 23 stories, one from each issue from Spring 2002 (the first perfectbound issue) to Winter 2006. SIGNED by Mary Robinette Kowal (with the words "Happy Worldcon 2008") at her story, a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, "The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland." Other contributors include Margaret B. Davidson, M.M. De Voe, Cheryl Hicks and more. Notes on contributors. 167 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.