Growth and change. One can’t happen without the other. As Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company grows, Khimairal Ink has to adapt. Growth doesn’t mean more staff, at least not yet. It means more work for everyone, so we have to make adjustments that translate into time management.

Preparing a Web version and a print-ready pdf version of Khimairal Ink requires two different sets of source materials and takes equal amounts of time to produce. Unfortunately, we have only one staff member who does all our techie stuff for both Khimairal Ink and Bedazzled Ink. Because her sanity is something that is important to us, we’re releasing the Web version first and the pdf version next week.

We also don't have our artist Trish Ellis. After some consideration, we decided to not attempt to do illustrations for this issue. We could never do justice to the quality of Trish's work.

We welcome back one of our favorite authors, Tyree Campbell in this issue. He continues to stretch our imaginations with “Blindmary.” I’m please that we have three newcomers to our pages. It’s one of the great wonders of the Internet for a California based ezine to receive submissions from all over the world as easily as submissions from the next town. L-J Baker from New Zealand, Veronica Holmes from Australia, and Kirsten Elliott from London gives us three different turning points in three women’s lives. Keeping this theme in mind, we selected a small scene from T.J. Mindancer’s first Tale of Emoria, Future Dreams that depicts a major turning point in a warrior’s life.

I hope you enjoy this issue.

Carrie