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AXIP News Archive & Aussie News

Added Cleopatra 4AD - Part 8 by Linda Crist
Added Flashbacks (#18 in the Plan D Series) by FlyBigD
Added Sedona Rain - Part 8 by Carole Giorgio
Added Changes of Heart: Sidekicks by CN Winters

The following is WAY cool - I love Dar and Kerry - characters that Missy has created in Tropical Storm. Encarnacion (also featured on the AXIP Artwork section) has drawn Dar Roberts. Way cool pic! Check it out
http://www.merwolf.com/Darprint.jpg

Encarnacion also has drawn a fantastic piece of Ares on my artwork section.
Click here to view

Speaking of great artwork Betty Bradley has created a super fantastic piece of artwork that is just so awesome. It's Xena and Gab when they were crucified but slightly changed. Click here to view

28 July

Updated Season Six Rumours

Lucy has done a film called "I'll Make You Happy" - a small cameo as herself. This film is going to be shown in Adelaide TONIGHT. In the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper it has been announced that you can catch the film at the Mercury Cinema. So if you live in Adelaide and you would like to see Lucy up on the big screen - check it out!
[Click here for the article from The Adelaide Advertiser]
Added scan of Lucy poster and small blurb from the Sky-Digi Magazine - August 2000 Issue

Added this week's XIPPY Awards
Added The Only One: The Story of Rowanne - Part 1 by Teagen2
Added Fantasy Bound by Barker

27 July

Xena Con 2001

Added news from Creation about the preferred seating arrangements

Updated ROC in TV Guide with additional ROC photo
Here's a nifty new idea from TV Guide Online - send a friend a postcard with this week's issue of TV Guide - yep the ROC one is available - I've received several yesteray <g> Check it out at http://www.tvguide.com/magazine/Covers/
Here's an interesting report of the filming of Motherhood by the second unit http://www.petford.net/xenaverse-britannia/s5-second-filming-report.html
Many thanks to Adrian for the link

Updated Tropical High - Part 4 by Melissa Good
Added Tropical High - Part 5 by Melissa Good
Added Shade by Temora
Added Touch (#10 in the R'Place Series) by Minerva
Added The Writer by Kamouraskan

AXIP Artwork Section
(Updated by Dee)

Added new artwork by Encarnacion
Added new subtext zone artwork by BBradley

Further updates for UK Xenites

The current situation with Xena on TV here in the UK is:

Season 5 - Sky 1, 6:00pm, Wednesdays - Kindred Spirits 26/7
Season 3 - Channel 5, 8:05pm, Fridays - The Furies 28/7
Uncut(!) Season 2 - Sky 1, 9:00pm, Saturdays - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 29/7
Sky 1 did show episodes from the middle of Season 3 at 1:00pm for 5 days from
17/7 to 21/7 and I believe that they will be doing a similar thing during the week beginning 4/9
Many thanks to Vanessa for the update

Added Full Cirlce - Chapter 4 and redesigned main page
http://mdfiction.excelland.com/new.html

26 July

Updated Season Six Rumours

ROC File

Some time ago on the Official Renee O'Connor Fan Club page there was an article written by Jane Treat called To The Roof of Africa and it chronicled Renee's courageous climb up Mount Kilimanjaro. Since then the fan club page has had a face lift that article was removed. Jane Treat has once again made this article available to ROC fans on The ROC File.

Added To The Roof of Africa by Jane Treat

AusNews

What will happen to XWP for fans in Australia? Well the Adelaide Advertiser has found out a few things that won't make fans of the show at all happy. Seems like Xena is destined to remain off the air in Australia due to a poor showing on Saturday - I'm not surprised because
a) They put the show on at 7:30 (which is considered a kids hour)
b) They put it up against the highest ranking shows - Survivors (TCN9 - which has a cult following) and SeaChange (ABC) which also is a huge hit. What did they expect?
c) They butchered 10 minutes combined from the two episodes!!!!!!
[Click here to read more about channel 10 and Xena]

Lucia's Cartoon Connection

Fixed link to Personal Assistant - Chapters 31 and 32 by Kat
Added Journey's End - Chapter 2 by LJ Maas
Added Alix - Part 2 by Dreams
Added High Intensity - Part 6 by Bel-wah

Added A Really Bad Critic to Xena and Gabrielle's Little Adventures

News from the UK
Sky One has started showing Xena repeats the 17th July 2000 at 1 pm of Season 4
A local Toronto TV channel - City Pulse Channel 57 has a Windows media clip of the Toronto Trek 2000 convention that Claire Standsfield appeared at. It includes a brief quote by Claire "I play an evil bitch on Xena". It's at the beginning of the clip. check it out!
http://www.cp24.com/showbizstories/jul1500-trekgeorge.asp
Many thanks to Kim for that info

Added SkyView Magazine - August 2000 article about the show in the UK

MaryD's Montages

Season 1 - 5 of the episode montage pages have been redesigned and made easier to find.

My fiction site is back up and running for those that contacted me about it being offline! Go to http://mdfiction.excelland.com/index.html

24 July

Hot off the presses - ROC in TV Guide! Click on the thumbnail for the scans of the article!

Added A Handful of Heaven - Part 3 by Midgit
Added Personal Assistant - Parts 32-33 by Kat
Added Poof by FlyBigD
Added Staying In the Game - Part 2 by Pruferblue

Added scan from The Official Xena Magazine #9 - A Good Call
article discusses Missy's debut as XWP writer

Interplay is developing a Xena game for Gameboy Colour. It looks to be slated for later in the year.
Many thanks to Jennifer for the news
For all you Virgil fans out there - Creation Entertainment has announced that William Gregory Lee (Virgil) will be appearing at his first convention in Palo Alto. He will join Hudson Leick. To get more info about this con click on the Creation Entertainment con info page
http://www.creationent.com/calendar_frame.html

Added Book #4 - Full Circle - Chapters 1 -3 which is a sequel to You Must Remember This
Added book cover for Full Circle

21 July

For those who won't have access to Foxtel or Austar or if you are overseas, Dan Ma will have an avi of the interview up on his site at xenamedia.com for you to have a looksee after the interview airs on Foxtel. Onya Dan!

From the It Never Rains but it Pours department..it seems Aussie Tv is bursting at the seams..er..tubes..with Lucy/Renee/Xena offerings.

For those Aussies who haven't watched Lucy hosting Saturday Night Live here is your chance! Foxtel is showing the episode with Lucy, August 14, 2000 at 9 am on the Arena channel

Added this week's XIPPY Awards

I am very pleased to announce a new addition to The Bard's Corner -
LB Anderson

Added What My Eyes Did See by LB Anderson
Added Aphrodite's Got A Secret by Lena
Added Convergence - Part 23 by Kandis Glasgow

ROC News

If you are going hunting for the TV Guide with ROC on the cover you will need to do a little searching - there are 8 variant covers of the July 29 Issue of the American TV Guide.

Joe LoDuca has is nominated once again for an Emmy for "Outstanding Music Composition for a Dramatic Series (Dramatic Underscore)." The episode nominated is Fallen Angel. He is also nominated for "Outstanding Main Title Theme Song" for Jack of All Trades.
http://www.emmys.org/awards/52ndnoms.htm#48
Many thanks to Jane for the alert
I don't usually announce X-Files stuff but since Bruce was mentioned as a possible replacement for David Duchovny I thought I would update the situation. According to the TV Guide web site, X-Files picked Robert Patrick instead of Bruce Campbell.
http://www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/inthenews/index.asp##
many thanks to Judy for that update

20 July

Aussies and Kiwi actors are going to be in force in the new Star Wars movie currently being filmed in Sydney. The lastest to join the movie is Martin Csokas (better known as Borias - that wonderfully spunky Xena hubby and father of Solan). Martin will be appearing as a "planatary leader" in Episode 2.

TV Alert for Lucy and Renee on Foxtel Cable Network
For Aussie Foxtel subscribers:
For the first time on Australian television, cable network channel TV1 aired an exclusive interview with Renee O'Connor on the 12th July that was later repeated at 8:25pm eastern standard time. The interview will be repeated many more times throughout the next few weeks of up to 3 times a day on Mondays. Most likely time to catch the interview is 8:25pm weeknights. This interview was never shown on television before and TV1 have the exclusive rights. TV1 also plans to show an exclusive interview with Lucy Lawless as part of their TV1 on one series of interviews. Many thanks to John Stirling for that information

**
Foxtel shows Xena on Monday nights and is currently airring Season 2 (Last episode airred was Ulysses - I remembered why John D'Aquino reminded me of a tree <g>

More TV Alerts - Hudson Leick

Hudson's movie "Denial" is currently being shown on Foxtel's Showtime network
The movie will air July 25 and 31 (it has already been shown on 2, 7 and 18 July)
Please be warned that this movie is billed as an "outrageously sex romp comedy"
It does contain some very explicit sex scenes by Hudson and course language.
Many thanks to John Stirling for the information

I am quite excited by the new story by LJ Maas - it's a Conqueror piece. I'm not big on the Ruler of the Known World but with this one LJ has really kept me glued to my screen waiting for the next installment! LJ doesn't usually post in parts but she is doing it with this story. Folks this is unbelievably good.

Added The Conqueror Series - Tale One - Journey's End - Part 1 by LJ Maas
Added Just Like Xena by LJ Maas (A children's story)
Added Alix - Part 1 by Dreams
Added A Handful of Heaven by Midgit

Lucy Magazine Alert for Polish fans
Polish magazine CKM August 2000 will feature a repeated Lucy Lawless cover that appeared on both the US edition of Maxim and Australian FHM in their upcoming August release. There will be 6 inside pages that will repeat photos from the Maxim shoot as published in the April 1999 edition. http://www.stirlingentertainment.com/items/whats-new/preview/CKM.jpg
To order the magazine send an email to stirling@bigpond.net.au
Many thanks to Agnieszka Prokopiuk from www.czakram.ac.pl
For Aussie Xenites - go to your local newsagent and pick up the Official Xena Magazine #7 - The Australian version has a Xena and Gabrielle postcard in a foil sealed wrapper attached to the magazine. I don't think that's available elsewhere.
Spectrum Magazine - Issue #24 will feature a Season 5 episode guide
[Click here for high quality scans from Stirling Entertainment of the guide]
Spectrum Special Edition #4 will have a 64 page issue covering the first three seasons of Xena in detail
[Click here to check out the cover on Stirling Entertainment's web site]
For Aussies who are after the Canadian TV Guide with Xena on the cover you can purchase it from Stirling Entertainment on stirling@bigpond.net.au
Stirling Entainment have announced they will be accepting orders for the TV Guide with Renee O'Connor. So if you are an Aussie and want the magazine send John an email at stirling@bigpond.net.au and place your order. That issue will be out July 29, 2000.
In the August issue of In Style Magazine a letter was printed asking why Renee wasn't in their "body and soul" article click here to see scans and transcript from that article that featured Lucy. The magazine's response was that Renee couldn't attend due to a previous engagement at a charity function.
Many thanks to Virginia Kelly for the news
For Karl Urban (Cupid and Caeser) fans there is an article in the NZ Herald
[Click here to read article]

19 July

I am very pleased to announce that my re-run project has now been completed - The AXIP Episode Guide is complete. Seasons 1 - 5 episode information, including synopsis linked to the Official Xena Page, reviews by Sheryl-Lee Kerr and myself, links to episode montages, mini synopsis and where available ratings for Season 5. The ratings for Season 1-4 will be also available soon. Should you encounter a bad link please let me know.

Added Ides of March review by Sheryl-Lee Kerr to Season 4 Episode Guide
Added Fallen Angel review by Sheryl-Lee Kerr to Season 5 Episode Guide

You may also have noticed a slight change in the graphics - sidebar and other logos.

Apologies to Queen Bee for adding the wrong info from the Toronto Trek - I had misundestood her email to me.

Added Soul Searching At Twilight by Saul Trabal
Added A Best Friend's Magic by Advocate
Added Changes of Heart: Astonishment by CN Winters
Added Into the Woods by Georgia
Added The Claiming of Ford - Log 35 by T. Novan
Added Possession by Georgia
Added Soul Creation by Georgia

Added short story "When Shadows Fall" which is a companion piece to
I'll Wait for You Forever

Bruce Campbell news - Bruce may be up for a permanent role on X-Files. He is one of 4 to be considered as a replacement for David Duchovny. Interesting.
http://idealists.simplenet.com/hftfbismu/newguy.html
More about Bruce - he is going to be directing an episode of VIP and it looks like Jack of All Trades has been cancelled with 8 episodes remaining to be screened.

18 July

Updated Season Six Rumours from the Palace chat with Adrienne Wilkinson (Eve) and a follow up to the rumours from Toronto Trek Convention.

Added Destiny Conquered by Linda Crist
Added Fierce Competition by Teagen2
Added Future Tense by AJ and Carrie Carr
Added Love's Journey - Part 3 by Carrie Carr

Sword and Staff - the fan run organisation that raises money for charity is encouraging donatings to charity in honour of the engagement of Renee O'Connor to Steve Muir.
[Click here to find out how you can contribute]
Earl Brown reports from Toronto Trek with some tidbits about the filming of Motherhood and Renee's less that dry drag through the rain
[Click here to read]
The Xena Photo Club Pictures are now online for March to June 2000
http://xenamultimedia.com/xpc/xpc-combo/ulthm4.htm

17 July

Updated Season Six Rumours from Toronto Trek

The Lawless Files has won an award from the CelebSites Award of Excellance!

Click to search CelebSites.

Linda Crist has won an award from the Ex-Guards list for her work. I've added it to her index listing

Added Our Reunion - Chapter 39 by Jenah
Added The Music Box by Raine
Added To Love You - Parts 2 - 3 by Raine
Added Better Than Ruling The World by Xena's Little Bitch
Added Changes of Heart - Strife by CN Winters
Added Trial of Conscience - Chapter 14 by Troubleshooter

Added short story "Love You Always and Forever"

15 July

Furthur to the good news coming from channel 10 about the show being shown on 22nd July. The not so good news is that Channel 10 is testing the waters to see how the show rates. Judging from the competition - Seachange (ABC) and Survivors (TCN9) it's going to be tough. Those shows are huge ratings winners so Xena is going to do it tough.
Updated AusNews

Added Damn Boxers (#16 in the Plan D Series) by FlyBigD
Added From Time to Time by Georgia
Added Sedona Rain - Chapter 7 by Carole Giorgio
Added Exposure - Episode 10 and 11 (Season 2) by XWPFanatic & T.Novan

Adrienne Wilkinson (Eve) will be chatting live at the Xena Palace!
Saturday, 15 July 2000 at 6:00 pm PST/9 pm EST (US) Times
Sunday 16 July 2000 12:00pm EST (Australia) Go to http://www.whoosh.org/palace/ for more info about getting the software
to join in.

Click to search CelebSites.

Added short story I'll Wait for You Forever

14 July

Updated Season 6 Episode Guide
Updated Season 6 Rumours Page

The ROC File has won an award from the CelebSites Award of Excellance!

Added this week's XIPPY Award Winners
Updated A Centaur's Tale by Alexiares
Added Seeing is Everything by Minerva
Added The Other Side of Fortune by Bongo Bear
I have removed the fanfic stories of Willowluvyr from The Bard's Corner at authors request

My Little Corner is a separate site not related to Xena that houses my original fiction work. If you want to be kept updated with my series which started with In the Blood of the Greeks you can join my mailing list. Send an email to mdfiction-subscribe@egroups.com

My stories In the Blood of the Greeks and Land of Milk and Honey (the sequel) will be published by Renaissance Alliance Publishing under the title of Out of Darkness due out in March 2001.

Added You Must Remember This - Chapters 18 - 21 (Conclusion)
Added zipped file of You Must Remember This for download
Added short story - Sun Kissed

13 July

More from Lucy's appearance at the Queer Awards. The following is from the Kiwi Attic - Many thanks to Tracey from Kiwi Attic for the information and the grabs

Described as "the Mount Albert mum behind the Xena costume" Lucy present an award during last nights televised "Queer of the year awards". The annual awards for the gay, lesbian, bisexual community. The award Lucy presented was for "straight alliance".... (won't give away who received it though........) The show was approx 1 hour long and Lucy appeared in the 3rd set. She spoke briefly about Xena then presented the award. She was on for approx 5 - 7 minutes. Her introducer was clearly overawed by her and the audience certainly made their appreciation known.
http://kiwiattic.bizland.com/Xena/LLqueerofyear.htm

Added Shell Game - Part 3 by M. Ryan
Added a revised version of The Apartment - Part 11 by Lena
Added To Challenge the Queen by Carole Giorgio
Added The Yearnings of a Dark Heart by Taleweaver

TBC authors have won several awards from The Swollen Bud Commitee

The Swollen Buds of July 15 include 10 stories

and series of stories by

Annmaray -- Charmer -- Barbara Davies (2) -- Domenica-- Friction -- Llachlan -- B.L. Miller -- Rachel2 --and Rooks

To check out the most recent winners, visit
http://members.spree.com/entertainment/sb_awards/

Lucia's Artwork

Added First Critic: Persuasion to Xena and Gabrielle's Little Adentures

At a recent convention, Hudson Leick has revealed she won't be appearing in any further episode of Xena.
Many thank to Melosa for that information
For photo club members and those who just like to browse, I've posted the photos for the Xena Photo Club for April, May and June. They can be found on the Creation web page at
https://www.thegrid.net/pub/creationent/XENA/XENA_PHOTO.HTML

11 July

Lucy appeared at the Queer of the Year Awards that were held in Auckland, New Zealand on the 8th July 2000. The Awards organiser Mr Marc van Moorsel mention that Lucy was a guest presenter and "looked absolutely gorgeous" [click here to read the New Zealand Herald article]

I am very pleased to announce the additon of Karen Dunn to The Bard's Corner.

Added Bardic Theories by Karen Dunn
Added Prelude to a Hangover by Karen Dunn
Added The Guard The Bard by Karen Dunn
Updated Tropical High - Part 4 by Melissa Good

The ROC File

Updated ROC Media Alerts with two tv movie repeats

10 July

Added a link to The Xena Files: Swimming w/subtext, part deux.
http://scifi.ign.com/tv/4827.html
Added link to Fandomshop article on Xena
http://www.fandomshop.com/tv/xena/endofseason.html

The following are articles from the Official Xena Magazine #9 - Many thanks to Cathy O'Grady for the links to her Xenaville site

Added link to the article - Vander Lust - an interview with Musetta Vander
Added link to the article - Walk Like an Egyptian - On the set of Antony and
Cleopatra
Added link to the article - The Underworld Connection - an interview with Stephan Lovatt

Added The Apartment - Parts 10 and 11 (Final) by Lena
Added Cleopatra 4AD - Part 7 by Linda Crist
Added The Gravesbury Murders by Archeobard & Lariel

Lucia's Cartoon Connection

The following cartoon is absolutely gorgeous - Dori on Xena's back..absolutely totally adorable. Lucia has outdone herself with this one folks! Check it out.

Added Who Needs a Pony on the Dori of Amphipolis section

Great news for our cousins across the Tasman - Kiwis are going to be watching Xena again! Season 4 will be screen on Sky 1 broadcasting Adventures in the Sin Trade - Part 1. For those xenites who haven't got cable and who had missed that episode - Jonathan Law is willing to trade videos of Season 4 for episodes from Seasons 1 and 2. You can contact Jonathan on jlaw@paradise.net.nz

2001 Xena Convention News

Added You Must Remember This - Chapters 14 - 17
Added new artwork "David & Friedrich" by Lucia

8 July

The gold tickets for the Xena Con in 2001 have been sold out! Hotel bookings need to be made pretty quickly or you may find that the hotels around the area have been sold out...I have a feeling there is a huge interest..just a guess <vbg>

The AXIP News Archive

Added new bard to The Bard's Corner - AJ

Added Present Tense by AJ and Carrie Carr
Added Staying In the Game - Part 1 by Pruferblue
Added Yule Tide Rites - Part 1 by UberScribbler (formaly Joseph Connell)
Added Penitencia: The Second Sacrament by Morrig
Added The Claiming of Ford - Log 34 by T. Novan
Added Monday Night Free-For-All (#15 Plan D Series) by FlyBigD
Added Night and Day - Part 12 by JuneBug

The ROC File

Added magazine alert for Renee for the US
[Click here for more details]

Favourite Photos

Added "Holding Hands at the Milk Baths" - "Antony & Cleopatra"
Added Xena - Ruler of Egypt - Antony & Cleopatra
Added And Baby Makes Three

7 July

I've been asked if I am going to attend the big Pasadena con in May 2001- the answer is sadly no. It's one convention I was planning on attending but my boss is going to be away on a US trip himself in May on a Toxicology Conference and thus I have to be here. I would have loved to have come over and meet all the friends I have made in this great fandom but it's not to be.

Added scans from TV Guide (Canadian) - 14 July 2000 - Super Women
Jay Laga'aia (Draco) is leaving Water Rats (Australian TV Series) and heading to the New Zealand to star in a new series
[Click here to read the New Zealand Herald online article]

Season 6 Episode Information

Added this week's XIPPY Awards
Added Acceptance by CN Winters
Added Another Day In the Life by Barbara Davies
Added Tell Me by Teagen2
Added The Chamber by Mayt
Added Love's Journey - Part 2 by Carrie Carr
Added Convergence - Part 22 by Kandis Glasgow

5 July

Screengrabs

Added 99 screengrabs from Lucy and Renee's appearance on the "July 4th Star Spangled Beach Blast-Gucci Style". (Updated by Carol & Judi)
Added a 3.2mb AVI of Lucy and Renee's appearance. (Added by Carol) (If you have any trouble playing these avi files, please visit this Indeo Software Download site and download the Indeo Video 3.2, 4.5, 5.11 and Indeo Audio 2.5 Codecs and install them. They will update your Windows Media Player so that they can handle the new files.)

Added 7 absolutely fantastic photos from the filming of Legacy - courtesy of Missy Good
Updated Season 6 Rumours from DragonCon

Updated What's New on The Lawless Files

Added Retribution - Part 9 (Final) by Susanne Beck (Sword 'n' Quill)

4 July

Added Retribution - Part 8 by Susanne Beck (Sword 'n' Quill)

Added You Must Remember This - Chapters 12 - 13
Added artwork "Zoe's Revenge" by Lucia

3 July

Firstly I want to wish two bards a very happy birthday T Novan and Tonya Muir - two very talented women who I greatly admire and value as friends.

Renaissance Alliance Publishing the company started by Cathy LeNoir celebrated their first anniversary!! RAP has given many well known authors in the xenaverse a chance to show their work and flourish. I am very proud to be associated with this company as Graphics Director and recently as an author. Congratulations RAP and all the staff for a great beginning!

Added Retribution - Part 7 by Susanne Beck (Sword 'n' Quill)
Updated A Centaur's Tale by Alexiares
Added Bloodlines - Chapter 1 by Kodi Wolf
Added New Gaia - Chapters 19-20 by Kodi Wolf
Added Motherhood Revisted, Again by Lena
Added Denial by CN Winters
Added Our Village, Our Home by Carole Giorgio

The following is from Muzza:

So I am accepting nominations for The 2000 Muzza's now.
Please include The Muzza's in the subject line so it goes into the right folder because that's easier than me having to sort out the emails in my inbox.

To check out the categories that I am accepting nominations for check out last years awards page at http://www.mindancer.org/muzza/awards.htm The nominations will be taken in until August 12th and then voting will start on the 15th. So get the nominations in. Thanks.
Muzza

My Little Corner Updates

Added artwork "Eva and Zoe Reading" by Lucia
Added montage "Hanging on the Wall" by Marcella
Added You Must Remember This - Chapters 10 - 11

1 July

Added Retribution - Part 6 by Susanne Beck (Sword 'n' Quill)
Added High Intensity - Part 5 by Bel-wah
Added Soapbox by FlyBigD

The ROC File

Updated ROC media Alert