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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 [...]
In the “Names You Couldn’t Make Up” Department
I was checking on something over at EuropeanCuisines.com and found (via Woopra) that someone from Belgium was looking at a recipe. Hardly an unusual occurrence by itself, as EC.com is normally moderately busy and has visitors from all over the world. (I remember the time I found someone from Ulan Bator looking at Peter’s Mum’s [...]
What a delightful review!
It’s always fun when someone exactly gets what you were trying to do. “”Omnitopia Dawn, dot Hack, and also, surprisingly, Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb, all have an element in common, that of using video gaming worlds to affect the so-called “real” world. But J.D. Robb uses the next step in virtual reality as [...]
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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