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Last chance for our present Peter Morwood titles at Ebooks Direct…

by Diane Duane
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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…

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"The Misadventures of Prince Ivan": win a copy!

by Diane Duane

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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. Or you can find out more about the book here if you haven’t heard about it before. Also part of the celebration, for those interested: a very-limited-time-only 30% discount on the complete 9-volume Young Wizards International Edition ebook set. Details are here.)

In any case: on to the giveaway!

I’m going to mention this blog posting here and there over the next few days — on Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr — and where you’ve seen it mentioned, you have a chance to win an autographed copy. I’ll be sending these out to three winners from each social network where the offer’s made.

Here’s what to do to be in with a chance to win:

If you’ve seen this mentioned on Twitter: The Twitter contest’s done. Congratulations to our winners, @anagenesis4E, @cshabsin and @cclemons!

If you saw this offer mentioned on G+: The contest’s over. Congrats to our winners:  John Davis, Rowan Fairgrove, Spider Boardman.

If you came here via Facebook: Your contest’s done. Congratulations to the winners: Murray J. Anderson, Pat Steed, Joan Oakland.

If you saw this offer on Tumblr: The Tumblr contest’s over. Congratulations to the winners: kayloulee, ussrosalind, falldiewakefly.

Here’s what you’ll be getting!

Once upon a time, there lived a prince…

But not your ordinary prince with some run-of-the-mill royal destiny. When Ivan’s three sisters are married off to enchanted princes and he goes off in search of his own true love, he finds himself matched up with the sorceress and warrior maiden Marya Morevna, fairest princess in all the Russias. Shortly the two of them are navigating the emotional “white water” of one of the world’s more traumatic fairy tales — but not without help, not without high hopes of a happy ending, and not without a lot of funny stuff along the way.

This story was serialized in Eclipse’s groundbreaking fantasy comic The Dreamery in the late 1980s, and its parts have now been brought together for the first time in graphic novel format. Featuring artwork by the fabulous Sherlock, the graphic novel also contains a new final section written for this edition — “Prince Ivan and the Bachelor Parties of Doom.”

Order now and start preparing yourself to make the acquaintance of the Little Humpbacked Horse, who just can’t get enough junk food… the Raven Prince who knows the ins and outs of the world’s strangest military equipment catalog… the terrible secret in the cellar of Marya Morevna’s palace… a whole heap of the most opinionated talking animals you’ll ever meet… and an final event that starts out with “vodka and strategy games” and ends in the world’s biggest fairytale smackdown!

 

 

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THE MISADVENTURES OF PRINCE IVAN
A graphic novel by Diane Duane
Art by Sherlock
104 pages, paperback, 5.5″ x 7.75″
ISBN: 978-1-936404-01-8
Price: $9.99
Published by About Comics

 

 

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

by Diane Duane

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.)

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