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We’re Guests of Honour at Octocon 2016!

by Diane Duane April 29, 2016

It’s way beyond a pleasure to announce that Peter and I will be joint Guests of Honour this October at Octocon 2016, the national Irish science fiction convention. It’s the first Irish con we ever went to. It’ll be so great to be back. And we won’t even have to go through airport security to get there!

…Not much more to add at this point except to say how honored we both are to be asked to serve. Which we’ll do gladly… with an eye to the proper percentage of good-natured rebellion, as befitting the theme and this particular year in Ireland. 🙂

If you can make it: see you there! (And watch this space for further developments at our end.)

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April 29, 2016
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Last chance for our present Peter Morwood titles at Ebooks Direct…

by Diane Duane October 21, 2015
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Today is your last chance to acquire one of our present line of DRM-free ebooks by Peter Morwood at the Ebooks Direct online bookstore.

Because of the terms of Peter’s new ebook contract with Venture Press, henceforth they will be the new exclusive digital purveyors of the Horse Lords and Clan Wars books, as well as the Tales of Old Russia series that includes Prince Ivan, Firebird, and The Golden Horde.

So if you’re interested in grabbing copies of Greylady or Widowmaker, or of the Tales of Old Russia Omnibus, this is your last chance… because the books will vanish from our store at midnight tonight.

(If you’ve already purchased these from us, don’t fret: if you need to re-download them you’ll still be able to do so on request. But as of midnight GMT there will be no new sales.)

(wipes away a tear, waves a hankie) Au revoir…

October 21, 2015
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Now at the Ebooks Direct Store: Peter Morwood's "Greylady" and "Widowmaker"

by Diane Duane December 13, 2011
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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 suffer. Events that could prove embarrassing or even shameful to later generations get covered up, as do any suggestions that the heroic deeds of past generations might not have been so heroic after all…

Book 1, Greylady, begins to tell the real story of the arrival of the Horse Lords in the realm of Alba, and how they turned the Art Magic that they initially hated and feared into a terrible weapon that would first be used against the realms they conquered. It also tells of Bayrd al’Talvlyn, a young, landless and idealistic captain at the time of the Landing in Alba — and the distant ancestor of Aldric Talvalin — who suddenly finds himself catapulted into the murky political and magical maelstrom surrounding the subjugation of the native Albans. And in book 2, Widowmaker, the story continues into the time when the Art Magic begins to be turned to truly deadly purpose against the invaders from over sea. Bayrd al’Talvlyn struggles to preserve his new young clan from the enmity of the recently deposed sorcerer Kalarr cu Ruruc, while preserving his newly conquered land from those who want it, and those who want it back…

These books have been hard to find since they went out of print in the UK in the 1990s. They’ve never been in print in the US. But now they’re back. Greylady and Widowmaker are now available as ebooks in .mobi format (for the Kindle) and .ePub (for Sony Reader, Nook and the iPads and iPhones), joining the print editions of Widowmaker and Greylady presently available at Lulu.com.

Yes, they’re my husband’s books. Know what? They’re hot. And I’m not just saying that because I married the guy. They’re worth reading. Please go buy some. 🙂 Thank you.

(BTW: for a limited time we’ll be offering a 20% discount on everything in the store to celebrate the prequels’ release! Use the discount code CLANWARS at checkout. Info on how to use our discount codes at the store is here.)

December 13, 2011
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New feature at the Ebooks Direct store: 25% off "Tales of Old Russia"

by Diane Duane August 1, 2011

The nice folks at Shopify have rolled out a new feature that allows us to offer discounts on specific items or specific collections at the Ebooks Direct store.

So we’re testing it out this week by offering a collection discount on Peter’s “Tales of Old Russia”: 25% off the books in the series.  Just use the coupon code OLDRUSSIA at checkout. (Details on how to handle coupon codes at our store are here.) Buy just one or buy them all, you get the discount.

Disclaimer: I seem to have married these books’ author.  🙂  Nonetheless I can honestly say that they are great stuff. In particular, Mar’ya Morevna — warrior, sorceress, and Fairest Princess in All the Russias — is one hot number. You do not screw around with Mar’ya Morevna.  (Well, not unless you’re Prince Ivan…)

(…BTW, other store discounts announced earlier, like the STARLIGHTGUILT discount mentioned over here, are also still  working.)

August 1, 2011
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