Fantasy and science fiction

The Starship and the Upstairs Flat

By Diane Duane ⋅ February 2, 2012 ⋅ One comment

There is a moment in Sherlock‘s second-season episode “The Hounds of Baskerville” in which the world’s first and only consulting detective is attempting to get to grips with the fact that his senses, the tools of his trade, utterly reliable for all his past life, have apparently turned on him and are no longer to [...]

Up against the wall (or actually, on it)

By Diane Duane ⋅ December 23, 2011 ⋅ 11 comments

This is such a cool thing. Some months back I had a nice email from Melissa Elliott, who’s the Senior Librarian in charge of Young Adult Services at the Burbank Public Library in southern California. (You know, as in “Beautiful Downtown Burbank.”) She was asking whether they could use a quote from one of the [...]

Now at the Ebooks Direct Store: Peter Morwood’s “Greylady” and “Widowmaker”

By Diane Duane ⋅ December 13, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Now available at last in ebook format are Peter’s two prequels to his Horse Lords series. Now, of course the Horse Lords’ Book of Years purports to tell the true story behind the arrival of the Horse Lords in Alba. But as usual, when the victors write the histories, the truth has been known to [...]

Just out! The audiobook edition of “A Wind from the South”

By Diane Duane ⋅ December 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

This is so cool! I didn’t know that this was going to be coming out so quickly. Just this last Friday, Audible popped out the audiobook edition of Raetian Tales 1: A Wind from the South. A goddess in the making… or a demon reborn? In the remote mountain village where she was born, Mariarta [...]

“The Misadventures of Prince Ivan”: win a copy!

By Diane Duane ⋅ November 20, 2011 ⋅ 5 comments

My author’s copies of the new graphic novel arrived last week, so now I have some to give away as part of the celebrations surrounding the release of the new revised/expanded ebook edition of Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses: The Author’s Cut. (Which you might also like to look into if you know the book. [...]

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