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November 27, 2016
The Adventure of the Dexter Eye

I’d have preferred to call it The Adventure of the Sinister Eye because that sounds a lot cooler, but that eye’s not the problem today. (For a change.) I’ve been…
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November 26, 2016
Reissuing RAETIAN TALES: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH

I’ve been getting this ready for paperback* for a couple/few months now, and the only thing holding back the release has been the lack of a decent new cover. I…
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November 24, 2016
Black Friday and Cyber Monday at Ebooks Direct

So it’s Thanksgiving, and I’m more busy concentrating on cooking, and on what I have to be thankful for, than I want to be on the Black Friday / Cyber…
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November 22, 2016
Cover work: RAETIAN TALES

Covers. Even when they’re almost done they’re not that almost done… Here the mountain girl Mariarta dil Alicg and her great-stag Grugni look down at a bewitched Aletsch Glacier in…
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November 18, 2016
GAMES WIZARDS PLAY Audiobook out now!

Recorded Books’ production of Games Wizards Play, featuring (as always) the multi-role voice talent of the fabulous Christina Moore, has been completed, and the audiobook is now available here at…
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November 14, 2016
MailChimp socks: the unanswered question

Last year, or it might have been the year before last, our mailing lists at MailChimp (there’s one for our customers at Ebooks Direct [sure, go to the form at…
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November 12, 2016
I’ve been thinking about a Patreon. What do you think?

A little background first. Over the past few months, on and off, I’ve been reorganizing the household’s records-keeping system (which has all too often devolved into variants of the Put…
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November 7, 2016
The Feline Destruction of Christmas

In the concrete, not the abstract. And just one incidence of it. …This was so wild and crazy that I had to make a post for it so I could…
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November 6, 2016
Open now: MiddleKingdoms.com

So, some online and book(ish) news from this end of things. The Middle Kingdoms books have been needing a home of their own for a while… so now they’ve got…
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November 2, 2016
Haunted

So it’s dark and the power’s been off for hours, and I’m sitting downstairs reading fanfic by candlelight, and the wind is howling whooo, whooo outside, blowing leaves and twigs…
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