The biography of the Master to the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh Doctor, Anthony Ainley, is due to be on general release later in the year; however, it is now available to order directly from Fantom Publishing, signed by the author, Karen Louise Hollis.

Karen said:

Competition

Readers in the United Kingdom have the chance to win a copy of the book courtesy of Fantom Publishing; to enter simply answer the following question:
Please send your answers along with your name, address and where you heard about the competition (news site, news app, other website, etc.) to comp-fantom@doctorwhonews.net with the subject "These Thunderbolts Are Everywhere". The competition is open to UK residents only, closing date: 7th June 2015. Only one entry per household will be accepted.

Issue Nineteen of the fanzine inferno-fiction is now available.

In this issue

• THE FOUR WISE MEN
by Michael Baxter Dr. Who and his grandchildren, John and Gillian arrive at a grove hidden in the hills and valleys of an ancient time and encounter travellers heading east...
• RETURN OF THE WIRRN
by Matthew Senkowski While Turlough continues to be haunted by the Black Guardian into doing his bidding, the TARDIS crew arrive on the planet Alpha Andromeda 5...
• IN HER ABSENCE
by Julie KAY PART THREE: An Omen in the sky, the funeral of King Eisō and Vastra still has much to learn about her new friend the Doctor...
• WHISTLE STOP
by Meg MacDonald An orphan girl recounts her journey aboard the Orphan Train and an encounter with the mysterious stranger know as the Doctor...
• A HICCUP IN SPACE AND TIME
by Jack Lawrence The case of the missing mobile phone, Louis XIV and a very drunk Doctor...
• OH MY GIDDY AUNT!
by Sean Bassett ACT III:The curtain finally falls on the Doctor's life in music...but not before one or two revelations from the auditorium...
• THE WHOLE TOOTH
by Nick Wheeler The Doctor sets out to see if the tooth fairy really exists...
• THE SARAH JANE ADVENTURES: THE MISSING
by Nathan Mullins Sarah Jane and her friends investigate a troublesome Graske who's stolen some equipment under the lock and key of UNIT

Full details on the website

Fantom Publishing have announced their plans to release a biography of Anthony Ainley, who played the Doctor's rival the Master in some nine full stories during the course of the 1980s, not to mention 'hosting' the computer game Destiny of the Doctors.


The book is now available for pre-order from the Fantom website and will be published exclusively through them from May 2015 until its trade release later in the year.

Issue 15 of the fanzine Fish Fingers and Custard is out now.

Included in the magazine

• Reviews of the 50th Anniversary
• A 50th Anniversary Diary
• Goodbye Matt Smith
• 'Thrifty Fives'
• Where's The Money Gone

The Issue can be purchased from fishcustardfanzine.co.uk for £2 (UK) and £4.50 (Rest of The World).

The Doctor Who Appreciation Society have created a new Doctor Who themed Christmas card for 2014. The cards are A5-sized and can be purchased worldwide - full details can be found via their website.

Profits from the sale of the cards are to be donated to the Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital Trust, whose vice president is sixth Doctor and the Society's own honorary president, Colin Baker.

The stop motion animated fan series, Doctor Puppet is seeking funding via Indiegogo to make their next Christmas Special episode. The previous specials, "How the Doctor Puppet Saved Christmas" and "Doctor Puppet - A Timelord Christmas" have more than 180k views each. The campaign was started on 29 September and will finish on 29 October 2014. The perks for donating money range from a simple thank you card at $5 to having a custom puppet created plus all the other perks which will cost $5,000. The goal for the project is set at $15,000 with over 52% already raised. The production was recently featured on BBC America's Earth Conquest documentary where Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman provided voices for their puppets. The documentary will be available in full on the Series 8 DVD.

Issue Eighteen of the Fanzine Inferno Fiction is now available online featuring:

• THREAT OF THE CYBERMEN
by Nathan Mullins PART TWO: The Cybermen have control of the TARDIS, but will the Doctor help his friends stop the threat from a Cyberman invasion?
• THE LAST VICTIM
by Michael Baxter Dr Who arrives in 1559 Derbyshire to possibly witness the last burning, of the last victim, Alice Marsh at the hands of the Bishop Snaith. Can the Doctor persuade the Bishop to spare her life?
• IN HER ABSENCE
by Julie Kay PART TWO: Vastra tells of her meeting with the stranger known as The Doctor and her journey through time and space to the Ryūkyū Kingdom at a disconcerting time in the Kingdom's history...
• MISTER STARMAN
by J. Arthur Rodgers "A spaceman came travelling on his ship from afar, 'Twas light years of time since his mission did start, And over a village he halted his craft, And it hung in the sky like a star, just like a star"
• OH MY GIDDY AUNT!
by Sean Bassett ACT II: The Musical Extravaganza continues in ACT II as The Doctor's lives are told through song and verse...
• GRIMLIGHT
by Thomas Ahearn Upon visiting his friends at 13 Paternoster Row, the Doctor is invited along to investigate the strange occupants of 22 Charing Cross Road...
• THE FEAR OF ALL SUMS
by Samuel Marks PART FOUR: The Doctor and Romana must stop the Zeronaughts and put Time back on track but at what cost?

with artwork by Colin John

In "Flatline," we saw the TARDIS grow and shrink over the course of 45 minutes. Lee Dubois can relate.

Earlier this year, the owner of Silverado Skies Corner Garden, a business in Calgary, Alberta, specializing in products like birdhouses and other outdoor items, started stocking birdfeeders in the shape of a miniature TARDIS (roughly the same size as the one Clara had stuffed in her handbag). Unfamiliar with Doctor Who, he was caught by surprise at how popular they were.

“One of my suppliers for my birdhouses sent me this [TARDIS] birdfeeder six months ago; I had no idea what I’d got,” Dubois says in an interview with Doctor Who News. “I had about eight of them and they were gone the first weekend, lots of fans coming in. I ordered more and, boom, they were gone, too. So someone said I should make one of those full-size.”

Visitors to Dubois’ stall at the weekend Crossroads Market can see the result: a full-size wooden TARDIS, measuring more than nine feet tall, with tempered glass spelling out the iconic “POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX” sign. A fellow market vendor supplied the “PULL TO OPEN” and St. John Ambulance labels; another provided a vintage telephone perfect for recreating “that phone call” in "Deep Breath."

“On the Internet, nobody is really free with giving out all the dimensions, so I went between three different sets of drawings, and [used] educated guesses,” says Dubois, who spent 200 hours of his spare time over more than four months building it.

Dubois is raffling his TARDIS (which weighs 450 lbs, but dismantles for transport and is on coasters, which the Doctor would have found hand-y in "Flatline") for $5 a ticket, with all funds supporting Kids Help Phone, a national non-profit helpline for youth in crisis. Only 2,000 tickets will be sold, with the draw expected in February (“or whenever I run out of tickets,” he says). Dubois says whoever wins will have the option of donating the TARDIS back to be raffled again.

Meanwhile, there are lots of pictures being taken at Crossroads, and Dubois says excited fans can borrow the key to peek inside (no blackboards, but the ceiling features the Union Jack). And, of course, he still has TARDIS birdfeeders for sale.

“It’s really iconic, and it’s part of not only BBC history, but world history,” says Dubois. “I met a guy here a few weeks ago, and he was in his 80s, and he said, ‘Back in the ‘60s, I was thrown in one of those by the cops because I was drunk and disorderly!’” (No word whether the old fellow found himself nursing a hangover while being chased by Zarbi.)

For information about Kids Help Phone, visit kidshelpphone.ca.

The latest edition of the fanzine Planet of the Ming Mongs is now available as a free download.

There is a Doctor Who event at this years Burning Man festival in Nevada, which takes place between 25 August and 1st September.

The Burning Man festival is a bizarre event which happens in the middle of a desert salt bed in Nevada. It is different from other festivals in that there are no paid bands or DJs. The participants create their own entertainment. It is famously a place where makers and artists build amazing sculptures and art cars, with an emphasis on things that burn!

Quixotes Cabaret Club and Bar is a British camp at the festival. They create a venue and a bar and invite anyone at the festival with any entertaining act to come up and perform. Each year they have a different décor theme. This year it is Doctor Who.

The entrance to the camp will be through a TARDIS against a brick wall and the organisers will have an art car in the shape of K-9.

The camp is located at 7:30 and Ephesus, the cabaret nights are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday around 9pm, with a Doctor Who extravaganza evening on the Friday. The club will be glad to see any Re-incarnations of the Doctor, Time Lords, assistants and monsters but warn that Daleks may well be turned around and pushed out. If anyone wishes to get in touch with the camp, please e-mail Paul Pickup at bigfoot.com

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An "unofficial" Doctor Who Disneyland theme day is taking place in September.

In Galliday 1.5 hundreds of fans in Cosplay and fanshirts are expected at the California theme park, taking over rides, playing games and contests.

A page has been set up on Facebook as well as twitter and Tumblr.

Organiser Amy McCain told Doctor Who NewsFor full details see the event website