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An interesting couple/few days
As some of you may have heard, this has been an unusual week in this corner of county Wicklow. At some point in the recent past, someone skimmed my bank card — whether during the pre-Christmas period or more recently, we’re still not sure. In the last few days, someone started playing around with a [...]
Just a few things in passing
Work day, busy busy. But first: At the Ebooks Direct store we now have Microsoft Reader versions (the .lit format) of The Door into Fire, The Door into Shadow, The Door into Sunset, and the Tale of the Five Omnibus. (I was holding off on the conversion to .lit because I didn’t have the reader [...]
Something for the weekend: our new ebook store opens
ETA, May 31, 1315 UTC: Due to our Shopify facility inadvertently being set for the wrong time zone, the 20% discount offer described below terminated too early. So we’ve reset it and extended the offer to last until 0001 Pacific time on June 1. Sorry for the mix-up! *** Okay, so it’s a “soft opening.” [...]
Young Wizards New Millennium Editions: a little more info
First of all, thanks to those of you who’ve dropped by the new Ebooks Direct store at DianeDuane.com to check things out since we opened it. After a few first-hour wobbles involving instant order fulfillment not happening instantly, we’re now running smoothly. (Just for everyone else’s info: the 20% discount offer runs until tomorrow, May [...]
In the Ebook Dep’t: “A Wind from the South” and strange sales behavior
So some of you may remember that a little while ago I moved A Wind from the South from its free-at-website-only status to wider availability at Amazon, this time actually charging money for it… i.e., a shattering USD $1.99. (Having first made sure everyone who might have wanted it free had had their chance.) This [...]
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30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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