Diane Duane's Blog: Out of Ambit, page 20
December 22, 2014
How Lovely Are Thy Branches: A Young Wizards Christmas
JD 2455550.52 / December 20th, 2010: It’s five days till Christmas, and the day before the Winter Solstice. The biggest pre-Christmas blizzard seen for decades is heading straight for the New York metropolitan area. But in one small corner… Continue Reading →
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November 30, 2014
The Shadow over Cyber Monday
Tomorrow’s one of the big days in the marketing year for anybody who (like us) sells ebooks. But this year, for many of us, there’s a nervous feeling about the event that hasn’t been there before: because this Cyber Monday… Continue Reading →
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November 27, 2014
Black Friday starts early at Ebooks Direct: 50% off everything!
For Black Friday at Ebooks Direct, everything in the store, everything in our catalog, is 50% off from noon (US) EST on Thanksgiving until 1 minute before midnight Hawaiian Standard Time on Sunday night. And because all the goods we… Continue Reading →
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October 11, 2014
Games Wizards Play: the publication date
…or in other words, it’s February 2, 2016. The book has its own website, as well as its own Tumblr and Twitter: you can follow its progress there.
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September 17, 2014
Halloween Candy: an idle personal overview
It was seeing this thing that got me thinking about the subject. …WTF? RT @pattymo: Who will answer for this crime pic.twitter.com/u0h3jqCfIh — Diane Duane (@dduane) September 17, 2014 What surprised me after the fact was that the very sight… Continue Reading →
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September 9, 2014
Cripes, I’m cited in the Oxford English Dictionary
That’s my year made. From the Online OED: phaser, n. 2. Science Fiction. A weapon producing destructive laser or similar beams (of variable phase); spec. a (usually hand-held) device whose output can be varied to produce different effects on a… Continue Reading →
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July 25, 2014
On receiving the IAMTW “Faust” Award
The formal acceptance of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers’ Grand Master / Lifetime Achievement Award at SDCC 2014: I want first of all to thank the IAMTW for honoring me with this award. I don’t think of myself… Continue Reading →
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July 24, 2014
Something unusual happens to me at SDCC 2014
…even though I won’t be there. (Work is keeping me home, unfortunately, as well as a medical issue or two. ) This is the locus of interest at SDCC 2014…
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At Ebooks Direct: hc & pb shipping & handling news
Just a quick note about this. We ship all signed hardcovers and paperbacks by registered mail / post to prevent losses in transatlantic shipping. (There were a whole lot of losses before we started doing this. Now it’s very, very… Continue Reading →
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July 20, 2014
Something you might not know about Dorothy L. Sayers
Poet, novelist, playwright, translator, essayist, Holmesian: there is a lot to know (and like) about Dorothy L. Sayers. This I didn’t know, though: her first writing that made a real splash was part of her early career as an advertising… Continue Reading →
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