Blue Meeple is for games. Imperfect Letter is for books. Killer Zebras* is for everything else.
*See Sunshine by Robin McKinley
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Diane Duane: 30 Day OTP Challenge: Holding hands
Two teenagers are sitting together on a big dusty grey rock: a boy and a girl, admiring the view. Mostly.
The rock is on the Moon. It’s on the peak-ridge of one of the Lunar Carpathians, which is a young and jagged mountain range rearing up over the pale rolling highlands that run down toward…
This is adorable and fantastic and I’m not ashamed to admit I squealed a bit when I realized what I was reading.
Genre Legend Diane Duane Talks Scooby Doo, Star Trek, and Beating Harry Potter to the Punch
We recorded this over the weekend, and it was just a trip to do! It has to do with the just-released New Millennium Edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard, but also a whole lot more.
Talking with Diane Duane is like having a conversation with a wind storm; things keep coming at you from all directions, and everything blows you away….
If you know who Diane Duane is, you’ll have a great time listening to this podcast, because the stories she tells about every corner of genre entertainment in the last 30 years are great. If you don’t know Diane, you’ll really want to afterwards.
You can download this special GeekDads podcast here, or listen to it streamed through the embedded player at the GeekDad page.
The links referenced in the podcast, BTW, are these:
The main DD.com website: http://www.dianeduane.com
DD’s weblog: http://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit
The food hobby site: http://www.europeancuisines.com
The ebook store: http://ebooksdirect.dianediane.com
I often try to keep author-as-person kind of separate in my mind from the books they write, because some of my favorite books were written by people I don’t think I would actually like very much.
And sometimes I don’t have to worry about it, because my list of favorite authors includes Diane Duane and just listen to this podcast. Not only does she write great books, but how fun would it be to sit down and have a conversation with her?
“So You Want to Be a Wizard” New Millennium Edition: win a free copy!
This message will tell you how to win an ebook copy* of the New Millennium Edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard... and also let you see the new cover.
…Gradually.
Here’s how this will work.
You see the jigsaw puzzle above? Four times a day or so, a new version of the image with a piece (or two) (or three) removed will pop out of my Tumblr queue. Friday morning, August 3, when the book releases, the image will be complete.
So that’s nice. But here’s where those of you who feel like participating in this somewhat extended virtual booklaunch come in.
Want to be in the running for a free copy of the ebook version? Just reblog this post. (Likes don’t count, sorry. You must reblog to be eligible.) ETA: Multiple reblogs are OK. Just try not to drive the other people on your dashboards crazy. Yes, there’ll be a fair number of these posts floating around by Friday. Don’t worry yourselves about that. It doesn’t matter which one you reblog: I’ll be keeping track of them all.
I’ll be picking twenty rebloggers at random starting at noon (US) EDT on Friday, August 3, and will drop the URL where you can download the book into your mailbox. Or I’ll email it to you if you prefer. We will have all the major ebook formats: even, just this once, PDFs for those of you who don’t use or don’t like ebook readers. The books will not officially go on sale until all of the winners have received their copies: so you will literally be among the first people on the planet to get your hands on the book. (Virtually speaking.) (BTW, there will also be a Twitter version of this contest: the same timing will apply, though it won’t start for another couple of days.)
…Oh, and I’ll autograph your copy to you inside the ebook as well. It’s a little extra work, but worth it, I think
So there you go. Start reblogging, and good luck!
*Yes, there will be hard / “dead tree” copies of the book available too, starting around this time next month. Keep an eye on the Tumblr or the main blog at http://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit for details.
Diane Duane: “So You Want to Be a Wizard” New Millennium Edition: win a free copy!
This message will tell you how to win an ebook copy* of the New Millennium Edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard... and also let you see the new cover.
…Gradually.
Here’s how this will work.
You see the jigsaw puzzle above? Four times a day or so, a new version of the image with a piece…
Diane Duane: "So You Want to Be a Wizard" New Millennium Edition: win a free copy!
This message will tell you how to win an ebook copy* of the New Millennium Edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard... and also let you see the new cover.
…Gradually.
Here’s how this will work.
You see the jigsaw puzzle above? Four times a day or so, a new version of the image with a piece…
Diane Duane: "So You Want to Be a Wizard" New Millennium Edition: win a free copy!
This message will tell you how to win an ebook copy* of the New Millennium Edition of So You Want to Be a Wizard... and also let you see the new cover.
…Gradually.
Here’s how this will work.
You see the jigsaw puzzle above? Four times a day or so, a new version of the image with a piece…
She loved any library, big or little; there was something about all that knowledge, all those facts waiting patiently to be found that never failed to give her a shiver. When friends couldn’t be found, the books were always waiting with something new to tell. Life that was getting too much the same could be shaken up for a few minutes in a book of some ancient temple newly discovered deep in a rain forest, a fuzzy photo of Uranus with its up-and-down rings, or a prismed picture taken through the faceted eyes of a bee.
Nita Callahan, So You Want to be a Wizard (via ierasemyselfagain)
(Source: fractalrevenge)
I just sat here giggling at the thought of Jack O’Neill ending up in an alternate universe where Thor is the Marvel movie!verse version - and they still get on like a house on fire because it doesn’t matter what universe you put him in, Jack O’Neill will always get along with Thor. (Kissing optional.)
It takes a LOT to make me almost spray my tea at the monitor.
The thought of Jack smooching Avengers!Thor did it. …Though only when considering what the lead-in dialogue would sound like. (Because obviously Thor would be fine with it.)
…Somebody else can write that dialogue. I’ve got business at the Crossings and I have to finish giggling before I can get on with it.
(Oh God, the inevitable echo in the back of the brain: “We can’t giggle, we’re at a crime scene! Stop it!” …Dammit, you boys get out of there!!)
(sigh) Oy. “When Universes Collide.” Welcome to my workplace.
Any place I can get Irn-Bru is a good place, even when it’s raining. Irn-Bru+Deep Wizardry+roommates reading and drawing on the balcony while watching storms roll across the island=bliss
Florida is a good place for this. Florida is where I got the idea for the book: Florida is where (when swimming in the middle of the night out behind the Fountainbleu Hotel) the dolphin snuck up on me and shoved me in the back and scared me half to death. And then gave me That Smile and swam off.
…Mind the sharks. :)
tptigger asked: Would you feel better if I said that I just think of the Young Wizards timeline as a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff and enjoy the books without worrying about it? :)
You would be an angel for saying that. :) But a lot of people (because not everyone is a Whovian, alas) have trouble coping with that mode of dealing with Time. So in the New Millennium editions we’ll be starting to fasten the books down to specific years. It just seems like something that needs to be done.
I never, ever cared about the wobbliness of the timeline (and honestly I still don’t) and while I am curious to read the New Millennium editions, I am sure the originals will always be my favorites (that reminds me, someday I must post a picture of Ed, the plush shark that my sister gave me after my first boyfriend dumped me, because she knows how much I adore DW. I am not ashamed to say that I still sleep with him on occasion.).
