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Ticonderoga Publications have announced the publication in October 2007 of "Shards: Forty Short Sharp Tales" by Shane Jiraiya Cummings and Andrew McKiernan

"Shards" will contain 40 of Shane's stories reprinted from publications such as Shadowed Realms, Dark Wisdom, Andromeda Spaceways, Apex Digest, Borderlands, and Shadow Box, including those that have been honourably mentioned in the Aurealis Awards and in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology, as well as a swathe of material original to the collection.

Each of the 40 stories will be accompanied by its own black and white full-page illustration by Kephra Design owner Andrew McKiernan.

Ticonderoga Publications will be publishing a limited edition trade paperback and a signed 30-copy numbered edition of Shards. Pre-ordering is available now at the Ticonderoga.

ISBN: 978-0-9803531-0-5

Numbered Edition tpb (30 signed copies): Aus$49.50 / US$40

Limited Edition tpb (500 numbered copies): Aus$24.95 / US$20

The website of the Australian Horror Writers Association is now online.

The Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA) is a non-profit organisation formed in 2003 as a way of providing a unified voice and a sense of community for Australian writers of dark fiction, while helping the development and evolution of this genre within Australia.

Their website, developed by Kephra Design, is a PHP and MySQL driven portal with Content and Page Management, Member Login areas, Custom Member Pages and Community Forums.

Kephra Design are proud to announce the completion of the brand new website of our client www.workforceretention.com.au).

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Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine has a brand new website at www.aurealis.com.au.

The site, designed and developed by Kephra Design, incorporates many new features and a brand new design. The site is maintainable by Aurealis staff through a backend Office that allows updates to the site without any knowledge of HTML.

Secure Online Credit Card ordering is also a major new function of the site, so now you can order Aurealis Issues and Subscriptions, as well as Richard Harland's wonderful, award-winning novel The Black Crusade.

Read McKenzie's Manual of Anthropomorphic Configurations at http://kephra.blogspot.com.

At long last, the mega #33/34/35 issue of Aurealis: Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction has been printed and should be in subscriber's hands even as I type! With over 280 pages, 20 short stories, and some really excellent artwork contributions, this is a great issue. You can find out more on the Aurealis web site.

Apart from soliciting the artists for the issue, I also contributed my own illustration for Shane Jiraiya Cummings' story of ancient evil in ancient Egypt Sobek's Tears. I have added the image to the Illustration Gallery or you can view it directly here.

Kephra Design have joined forces with inner-city Sydney based FatPublisher to offer our clients unsurpassed service in all matters of web design, development and hosting.

Kephra Design will continue to offer Graphic Design, Illustration, Typesetting, Logo Design and Desktop Publishing services. Web development and hosting requests will be handled by FatPublisher.

Current Kephra Design clients will be informed of any changes over the coming weeks.

Kephra Design owner Andrew McKiernan has just taken on the position of Art Director for Australia's most prestigious and longest running magazine of speculative fiction.

Aurealis (produced by Chimaera Publications) has seen 32 issues in its 14 year history (founded in 1990) and is the driving force behind the Aurealis Awards for Australian Speculative Fiction.

Andrew takes over from Trudi Canavan (author of the acclaimed Black Magician Trilogy) who held the position for an amazing 9 years! Aurealis would not quite be what it is today if it wasn't for Trudi's work.

Aurealis Issue 33 (due October 2004) will be Andrew's first as Art Director and he looks forward to the challenge of keeping up with the high standards Aurealis has maintained over the past fourteen years.

An article based on Kephra Design owner Andrew McKiernan's recent presentation "Websites in the Non-Profit Sector - Maximising Your Resources", given at the NFP Analysts Seminar in November 2003 is now available in the Articles section.

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Kephra Design have just completed the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

www.trysilencefor60.com.au].

Kephra Design's own Andrew McKiernan will be Key-Presenter at the upcoming NFP Analysts 'Websites for the Not-For-Profit Sector' Seminar, to be held on Friday 28 November 2003 at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, 51-57 Pitt Street, Sydney.

Key Topics:

• Setting up Not-for-Profit Websites Maximising your Resources

• Website Demonstrations by sponsors Coresoft and Internetrix

• Panel: Associations Developing Their Own Websites

More information can be found on the NFP Analysts website www.nfp.net.au

Welcome to the new Kephra Design web site. We have tried to make the new site as easy to navigate as possible, as well as being a resource for information on Web and Graphic Design with a special emphasis on Internet technology for Not-for-Profit Organisations.

Kephra Design have a special interest in making Internet and E-business technology available to Non-Profit organisations, community groups and associations. For many years the view that E-business and successful internet marketing are reserved for large corporations has been perpetuated by the high costs many businesses charge.

Kephra Design offers affordable and effective solutions that will allow your organisation to implement the technology to achieve your goals faster and with less overhead than ever before.

If you have any questions about how Kephra Design can help you please email us, or contact us via the phone numbers supplied in the Contact Us section of this site.