{"id":1366,"date":"2011-02-23T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/02\/23\/uptown-local-and-other-interventions\/"},"modified":"2011-02-23T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T15:09:48","slug":"uptown-local-and-other-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/02\/23\/uptown-local-and-other-interventions\/","title":{"rendered":"Uptown Local and Other Interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <em>Uptown Local and Other Interventions <\/em>is finally ready!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to collect a batch of favorite stories together for a while now, and an ebook seemed like the perfect way to go. (The paper version will follow later: we&#8217;ll be converting this along with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com\/pages\/young-wizards-international-editions\">international ebook editions of the Young Wizards books<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"float: right; padding: 0px 0px 15px 15px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/widgets.shopifyapps.com\/products\/uptown-local-and-other-interventions?shop=dianeduane.myshopify.com&#038;style=mnml&#038;destination=checkout\" class=\"shopify-widget\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"473\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"267\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The anthology contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>In The Company of Heroes<\/em><strong> &#8212; <\/strong><\/strong>A billionaire &#8220;living the dream&#8221; goes on a desperate quest for the one thing he needs to make his life perfect: a very special comic book&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Rizzoli Bag<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; A sad young man in a Roman cafe is offered a once-in-a-lifetime bargain&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Out of the Frying Pan<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; The life of a part-time witch working in a shopping mall is turned upside down in a day&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Queen and the Thief and the Dragon <\/strong><\/em>&#8212; A (fairy) tale of the True West, and a young monarch&#8217;s solution to a thorny diplomatic problem&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Bears<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; An ancient sorrow (with a modern twist) wanders through the tumult of a pre-Lenten street carnival&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><strong><em><strong>The Fix<\/strong><\/em> &#8212; <\/strong><\/strong>In the dark guts of Rome&#8217;s Colosseum, a slave boy with an impossible dream becomes entangled in the machinations of immortals&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Herself<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; In the heart of Dublin, something is killing the People of the Hills &#8212; and it&#8217;s going to take Ireland&#8217;s only superhero to stop it&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Hopper Painting<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Desolation and redemption in a midnight diner&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Back Door<\/em><\/strong> &#8212; Two terrorists meet in Zurich to carry out a very unusual heist with a confederate who&#8217;s more dangerous than they imagine&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;And naturally the title story, which hasn&#8217;t been in print since it appeared in the <em>So You Want to Be a Wizard<\/em> 20th anniversary hardcover: and the only other Young Wizards short story, <em><strong>Theobroma.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Uptown Local and Other Interventions<\/em> <\/strong>is available for purchase in <strong><em>DRM-free<\/em> Kindle \/ .mobi and Nook \/ iPad \/ .ePub formats <\/strong>at <a href=\"http:\/\/ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com\/products\/uptown-local-and-other-interventions\" target=\"_blank\">the Ebooks Direct store<\/a> for <strong>USD $5.99<\/strong>. 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