Next Monday is Cyber Monday, and starting at 0800 UK/Irish time that day, our Ebooks Direct store will be launching the New Millennium Edition of Book 2 of the Young Wizards series, Deep Wizardry.
Like the NME of So You Want to Be a Wizard. this is a revised and updated version of Deep Wizardry, brought up to date for its new generation of 21st-century readers. Besides undergoing some general polishing and tidying, the novel has been revised to include modern technology more appropriate to the here and now than the original 1980s edition, and also continues the process of establishing a new, corrected timeline for the characters and events to carry the Young Wizards series forward into its new century.
There will also be a new cover for this edition by the magnificent Niko Geyer (who did the new cover for So You Want to Be a Wizard). Please note, however, that due to some temporary logistical problems at our Irish production end, that cover will not be available for the Cyber Monday launch. As soon as it is ready, purchasers will be notified so they can download copies of the book with the new cover.
The other two of the first four NMEs (High Wizardry and A Wizard Abroad) will be ready before Christmas: subscribers to the Ebooks Direct general notifications mailing list will be notified as soon as they’re ready. If you’d like to be notified when they’ll be available, please feel free to use the form below to sign up. All nine books in the Young Wizards series will be available in the New Millennium Editions by the end of the first quarter of 2013.
Also: before Cyber Monday comes Black Friday, and the Ebooks Direct store will be celebrating that weekend as well. Subscribers to our store’s general notification mailing list will be offered special discounts for the Black Friday weekend. If you’re interested in availing yourself of these, you can use the form below to sign up: a mailing with the pertinent information will be going out within the next 48 hours. (Just a general note about our list, by the way: we normally only send out a mailing once a month or so unless there’s a significant release. Naturally you can opt out of the list at any time. And equally naturally, we’ll never share your email address with anyone else. The very thought.)
Thanks in advance for your interest!
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Did the Deep Wizardry NME make it up this morning? I’ve tried the link from the e-mail a couple of times now, and it keeps returning a 404 error. I tried finding it directly using the catalog and search functions at your Ebooks Direct page, and am failing miserably.
Just briefly — We’re having a problem with the “fulfillment engine” that sends out the files once people buy them. I can’t open the page until this problem is fixed, and it looks like it’s going to take at least a couple/few more hours. Very annoying: but we’re working on it. I’ll post here as soon as the page is open and we’re sorted out.
Did the Deep Wizardry NME make it up this morning? I’ve tried the link from the e-mail a couple of times now, and it keeps returning a 404 error. I tried finding it directly using the catalog and search functions at your Ebooks Direct page, and am failing miserably.
Just briefly — We’re having a problem with the “fulfillment engine” that sends out the files once people buy them. I can’t open the page until this problem is fixed, and it looks like it’s going to take at least a couple/few more hours. Very annoying: but we’re working on it. I’ll post here as soon as the page is open and we’re sorted out.
I don’t see it either and I just looked.
Just briefly (sorry for the canned answer on this) — We’re having a problem with the “fulfillment engine”
that sends out the files once people buy them. I can’t open the page
until this problem is fixed, and it looks like it’s going to take at
least a couple/few more hours. Very annoying: but we’re working on it. I’ll post here as soon as the page is open and we’re sorted out.
No problem! I’ve been wanting to reread these anyway, so I’m just excited for the new editions.
I don’t see it either and I just looked.
Just briefly (sorry for the canned answer on this) — We’re having a problem with the “fulfillment engine”
that sends out the files once people buy them. I can’t open the page
until this problem is fixed, and it looks like it’s going to take at
least a couple/few more hours. Very annoying: but we’re working on it. I’ll post here as soon as the page is open and we’re sorted out.
No problem! I’ve been wanting to reread these anyway, so I’m just excited for the new editions.
I still can’t find it. 🙁
Just briefly (sorry for the canned answer here! ) — We’re having a
problem with the “fulfillment engine” that sends out the files once people buy them. I can’t open the page
until this problem is fixed, and it looks like it’s going to take at least a couple/few more hours. Very annoying: but we’re working on it. I’ll post here as soon as the page is open and we’re sorted out.
You could let us pay and fulfill us later 🙂
Seriously, I think you could give us a discount on the whole set and pre-sell up the next 9 books and fulfill then later as they are completed…
Just a thought.
🙂 Don’t tempt me. No, I think it’s wisest if we do them one at a time and take people’s money as there’s actually something to give them for it. …Meanwhile, looks like this problem will be sorted in the next hour or so. (SIGH)
I still can’t find it. 🙁
Just briefly (sorry for the canned answer here! ) — We’re having a
problem with the “fulfillment engine” that sends out the files once people buy them. I can’t open the page
until this problem is fixed, and it looks like it’s going to take at least a couple/few more hours. Very annoying: but we’re working on it. I’ll post here as soon as the page is open and we’re sorted out.
You could let us pay and fulfill us later 🙂
Seriously, I think you could give us a discount on the whole set and pre-sell up the next 9 books and fulfill then later as they are completed…
Just a thought.
🙂 Don’t tempt me. No, I think it’s wisest if we do them one at a time and take people’s money as there’s actually something to give them for it. …Meanwhile, looks like this problem will be sorted in the next hour or so. (SIGH)
I can’t find it either. 🙁
I can’t find it either. 🙁