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How This Self-Published Author Got His Books into Barnes and Noble Bookstores

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The Mothership has Placed an Order for Books!

The Mothership has Placed an Order for Books!

UPDATE: I got a letter from my Barnes and Noble rep today, confirming that, in addition to ordering copies of The Moon Coin, their book buyer has approved The Dragondain! Which means both Moon Realm books are now headed for the Mothership's brick and mortar stores! Woot!

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Second Looks Books will have a bookstall at this year’s festival. I’ll be there all three days signing Moon Realm novels.

The Moon Coin. GoodReads: 112 ratings; 67 5-Stars (4.40 avg); on 3,285 people's shelves.

The Moon Coin. GoodReads: 112 ratings; 67 5-Stars (4.40 avg); on 3,285 people's shelves. http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

murk (n)

murk (n)
c.1300, myrke, from Old Norse myrkr "darkness," from Proto-Germanic *merkwjo- (cf. Old English mirce "murky, black, dark; murkiness, darkness," Danish mǿrk "darkness," Old Saxon mirki "dark"); cognate with Old Church Slavonic mraku, Serbo-Croatian mrak, Russian mrak "darkness;" Lithuanian merkti "shut the eyes, blink," from PIE *mer- "to flicker" (see morn). Murk Monday was long the name in Scotland for the great solar eclipse of March 29, 1652 (April 8, New Style).

Ever just need to get away from it all? Come visit the Moon Realm. Travel among its ancient civilizations. Ever ride a lion-like cat the size of a draft horse? No?!

Ever just need to get away from it all? Come visit the Moon Realm. Travel among its ancient civilizations. Ever ride a lion-like cat the size of a draft horse? No?! Come on, let's go battle a mad land dragon of Dain, or gaze into a magic peerin and manipulate the magic that lies just beneath reality.

Still not convinced? Add a cursed sword, a flying feathered seahorse, a thinking chest of drawers that can fix just about anything. Still not enough? What are you waiting for? I know, how'd you like to step into dystopian versions of your favorite bedtime tales, so twisted and dark you can barely recognize them? All you need to enter is a coin, The Moon Coin.

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'It is an addictive drug for those of us who have lovingly flipped through its pages. It is the fantastical story you dreamed of while waiting to fall asleep. It is youth brought to life.' --from review of The Dragondain

5 of 5 stars to The Dragondain by Richard Due http://bit.ly/Qn9b9c

Tales, unlike stories, never lie. You see, a tale is an account of things in their due order, often divulged secretly, or as gossip. Would you like to hear one? --Lord Autumn

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Inquisitive 13-year-old Lily Winter finds herself in the Moon Realm,the setting of her uncle’s long-ago bedtime tales. Separated from her brother Jasper, armed with only her wits and the Moon Coin, Lily must find her way through worlds much darker than any tales Uncle Ebb ever told. Illus by Carolyn Arcabascio.

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The Dragondain

Jasper Winter awakens in the Moon Realm, where his sister Lily has catapulted him. He must persuade Greydor, King of the Rinn, to unite with the men of Dain to defeat Wrengfoul, their common foe. Lily continues searching for clues to Uncle Ebb’s disappearance. Illus by Carolyn Arcabascio.

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The Moon Coin picked up its 100th GoodReads rating tonight.

The hundredth rating was a 5-Star, The Moon Coin's 61st. (4.46 overall.)

I never imagined it would be received this well. I'm not trying to be modest. I just REALLY didn't think everyone, young and old, would like it this much.

Thanks everyone!

There's a lot more of Lily and Jasper to come. I've finished the third book, and I'm working with my editors as fast as I can to get it ready.

<3s,

Richard Due

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"For a feel of the beginning of The Moon Coin, picture what might come into being if you took C.S. Lewis and Dr. Seuss and locked them in a room until they wrote a book together. Got that? And then . . .

"For a feel of the beginning of The Moon Coin, picture what might come into being if you took C.S. Lewis and Dr. Seuss and locked them in a room until they wrote a book together. Got that? And then Dr. Seuss gets kicked out and the whole thing takes a rather J.R.R. Tolkien turn."—V.K. Finnish, author of The Society’s Traitor, The Discoveries of Arthur Grey