The Dorothy Dunnett Readers Association

Whispering Gallery magazine

Whispering Gallery is the worldwide correspondance magazine for Dunnett readers. For many years there were two versions of it - the US one which started it all off was called Marzipan & Kisses and was run by Jean Clissold and Karen Brandl. It closed in November 2001 (by dreadful irony the month of Dorothy's death) as most of it's regular contributors had moved over to the various internet groups. The UK one was called Whispering Gallery and was originally run under the Dorothy Dunnett Foundation and edited by Val Bierman. After the release of Gemini and the last of the major official gatherings at Edinburgh 2000, the Foundation was wound up and Dorothy transferred the funds to a new body to continue the magazine.

Whispering Gallery is now produced under the auspices of the Dorothy Dunnett Readers Association and will continue for the forseeable future as long as membership levels can be held at a viable level. The DDRA exists to further discussion and research into the periods of Dorothy's book, and in addition to producing the magazine it holds an annual mini-gathering in Edinburgh every Spring at the same time as the AGM. All DDRA members automatically receive the magazine which is issued 4 times a year.

The DDRA is run by a committee of volunteer members and I currently serve on it as Membership Administrator.

The editor welcomes contributions to the magazine, particularly by electronic means, but reserves the usual right of editorial control. Please contact her only on editorial matters. Readers with other questions are welcome to send them to me at the address below.

Subscriptions

Anyone wishing to subscribe to the DDRA should write to me at:

William Marshall, DDRA Membership Administrator, 18 (3F1) Caledonian Road, Edinburgh EH11 2DF

email enquiries to billmarsh@bigfoot.com

A year's subscription costs:
£20.00 within the UK
£21.50 in the rest of the world (outside Europe was £24 but has recently been reduced)

Cheques *must* be in pounds sterling and made payable to the Dorothy Dunnett Readers Association, and not to anyone else.

Online Subscription

During the last year of James Thin Ltd before their financial collapse, the DDRA had an arrangment with them to accept credit card subscriptions by overseas readers, but this has of course ceased and it is prohibitively expensive for a small organisation to take out a credit card merchant account. Since then Simon Hedges kindly offered to act as a go-between to accept overseas reader's subscriptions via his PayPal account and pass them on to the DDRA. You can find details of this arrangement at the DDRA website's membership page.

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