From Lee Enfield-Burke, senior YoungWizards.net forum administrator:

In aid of the upcoming retooling and expansion of the YoungWizards.Net discussion forums, DD has sanctioned the first publication anywhere of material from A Wizard of Mars. This material will be available by subscription only: proceeds will go toward the operation and expansion of the Forums.

Chapters One and Two were released in mid-August. Chapter Three has just been released and is now available for viewing, along with the first two chapters, by those discussion forum members (you must be registered as a member of the Forums) who're willing to pay a three-month subscription fee of USD $15.00. These chapters make up nearly 35,000 words of material that no one but subscribers will see until the book is published in the autumn of 2008.

A fourth chapter will be released in mid-October. At that point DD will determine with the publisher whether any further material should be released.

Interested readers should first join the Forums (registration is free, as always) and then scroll down the main Forum page to access the subscription bar at the bottom. You can either choose the chapter-only option, at USD $15.00 for three months, or a slightly more expensive option which also allows you access to archived Forum messages from between 2002 and 2005 (which will be going subscription-only at the end of the month).

Payment is handled through SitePay, the secure payment service managed by our Forum provider, Groupee (this being why you need to register in the Forums before you can order). Major credit cards and PayPal are accepted, and the SitePay system will immediately confirm your subscription via email. Once you've subscribed, access to the Premium Content area is by the "Premium Content" link in the menu bar at the top of the main Forum page.