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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 [...]
My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic
…Yeah, you heard that right. This is apparently a pre-alpha, meaning that everything about it may have already changed. Nevertheless, I’m going to go off somewhere quietly now and clutch my head. DUELING PONIES. (There are even banjos in the background music.) (Disclosure: I keep a casual eye on Pony business, as I’ve worked with [...]
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.” [...]
Neu! Wortvogel.de style relaunch!
Our good friend Torsten Dewi has just launched a redesign / restyle on his popular German blog, Wortvogel.de, where he posts trenchant and intelligent film reviews, slices of local life, and episodes from his daily business as TV, film and media fan par excellence. Torsten is a busy guy. He was instrumental in keeping me [...]
In the Online Retail department: Shopify
The long-suffering Lee the Tech Lady and I have been working with Zen Cart at the DianeDuane.com online shop for almost six months now, and the reviews are, well, kind of mixed. While Zen Cart works well enough, the learning curve has been annoyingly steep, and the thing has more controls than the Space Shuttle [...]
About the blogger
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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