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Website News and Messages
posted 05/01/08
Message for Mike Hoffman
We were unable to respond to your email enquiry as you didn't give
your email address. If you care to look at
www.rune-tattoos.com you will find
some information and advice about runic tattoos.
posted 12/26/07
Message for Mark Wingfield-Hill
We were unable to respond to your email enquiry as you didn't give
your email address. If you care to look at the
personal
bindrunes page you will find details
of the RM58 service that matches your request.
posted 11/18/07
"Discovering Runes" to be published June 2008
I have been working on a new book about runes over the last couple of
years. I wanted to publish something that would be useful to both
experienced runesters and to novices in a down to earth and friendly
style and without getting too technical. So now I have written what I
hope will be an entertaining read as well as being a vital reference
book for everyone entitled "Discovering Runes".
It is being published by Regency House, probably in June 2008 and will be 256 glossy pages of 8x8 inches with several hundred full colour illustrations. Price is not fixed yet but expected to be around US$35 plus tax and shipping.
Oh yeah, one more thing. If you subscribe to the Runemaker Group
Newsletter you can register for a signed copy of the first edition at
20% discount. All the registrations that come in will go in a hat and I
will randomly pick one lucky winner on the day of publication to receive
a free book. Just email me saying "register me for your book" and tell
me what dedication you would like on the flyleaf. I will acknowledge
your registration and let you know who wins the free book in a future
Newsletter.
Click here
to sign up for the Newsletter and
click here to get the latest issue
as a PDF in a zip file.
posted 09/11/07
Runezine Discontinued
If you have read the previous posting about production cut-backs you
will know that my ageing body has been letting me down somewhat of late.
Sadly, the Runezine ezine is another thing I have decided to give up.
I have been running the Runezine project since 2001 but it was finally closed down at the end of August. Runezine subscribers were contacted and asked if they wanted to subscribe to a new list. If you missed out on that but would like to receive occasional email news messages from Runemaker Group, please click this link to subscribe. My sincere thanks to all Runezine readers for their support in the past, I hope everyone found it interesting and occasionally useful.
Happily, this new lighter workload seems to be having a beneficial effect and I hope to get back to a more productive habit over the next few months. My thanks to those 250 well-wishers who took the trouble to write to me personally - you know who you are. I really do appreciate your kind words and good wishes.
posted 09/05/07
Production Cut-Backs
From September 2007 I will be dropping some products from the Runemaker range
and suspending production of all rune sets - hopefully this latter will
not be permanent, but I can't say for sure at present.
This has been a very difficult decision for me, but one that I should have made months ago, I have simply been putting it off for too long. The fact is I have been in poor health for some time and I find it takes me a lot longer now to make a set of runes than it did in the past.
This move is a result of some long absences from the workshop and some recent difficulties with computer hardware that have soaked up too much of my available time. Consequently, many orders for rune sets and other products that should have been delivered many weeks ago are still sitting on the workbench waiting for completion.
I have therefore decided not to take on any new orders for these products until I clear the backlog and my health improves - if it ever does! People have been telling me for years I was killing myself with work and I laughed. But maybe now I am starting to believe them.
When you visit the Rune wares pages where all the products are featured you will see which ones are currently suspended. I apologise for these cut-backs and hope you will bear with me through this difficult period. If you have ordered something and are fed up waiting for delivery, just email me quoting your order number and I will of course refund your payment right away.
posted 08/22/07
New "Rune Reminder" eBook now available
In response to popular demand, the Rune Meanings pages of this website are now available for download as an eBook.
Enjoy your site visit, and use the
Contact page if you want to get in touch.
May the best of good fortune follow you always,
Bob Oswald
The Runemaker
December 26th, 2007