Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/Outreach/Newsletter November 2007

Project news

• During the month the project has reached the 15,000 articles tagged mark. A huge responsibility, so step in, make your contributions.

Member news

• The project has currently 282 members, 8 joined & 0 leavers since the start of October 2007

Other news

• The Category:Paranormal romance novels has been created.

as a subcategory of Category:Romance novels & Category:Speculative fiction novels

• As has

Category:American Civil War fiction which should probably be renamed with "novels"
Category:American Revolutionary War novels
Category:French Revolutionary War novels
Category:Korean War novels
Category:Napoleonic War novels
Category:Vietnam War novels
....	All as subcats of Category:War novels

Task force news

• New is the Fantasy task force for all those interested in the Fantasy genre, Novels, Novellas, Novelettes and Short stories

Novel related news

• The Gathering by Anne Enright (Jonathan Cape) is the 2007 winner of the Man Booker Prize.
• For anyone who hasn't picked up on it the Whitbread Book Awards are now the Costa Book Awards (before the 2006 award).

Current debates

• Discussion on adding literary works to the A7 speedy delete group.

From the Members

Welcome to the eighteenth issue of the Novels WikiProject's newsletter! Use this newsletter as a mechanism to inform yourselves about progress at the project and please be inspired to take more active roles in what we do.

We would encourage all members to get more involved and if you are wondering what with, please ask.

Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk), Initiating Editor

Collaboration of the Month

• This month's Collaboration has been selected by popular vote and is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Newsletter challenge

Last month's challenge (The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot) was not completed.

• The first person to start the article is mentioned in the next newsletter. This month's article is John McGahern's award-winning The Barracks.