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2013-05-18 07:21:33 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Wow!

2013-05-17 11:51:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-17 11:08:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2013-05-17 00:19:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Interesting, this.

2013-05-10 15:20:51 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Preparatory to a new #ebook release announcement, we've just been tidying up the new-release mailing list at #Ebooks Direct. So if you want to get on the list in time for the next sale / discount announcement, this is a great time! Info here:

http://dduane.tumblr.com/post/50021723877/a-quick-housekeeping-note-ebooks-direct-mailing-lists

2013-04-29 08:42:40 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Last hour or so on this #ebook #sale, folks. 60% off on everything... http://dduane.tumblr.com/post/46929954490/the-adventure-of-the-busted-desktop-part-2

2013-04-27 01:06:21 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

This is going to be fun... :)

2013-04-19 10:25:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Always nice to hear about something like this...

2013-04-19 07:25:45 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

This sounds promising...!

2013-04-18 18:40:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

This looks like it's going to be a ton of fun.

2013-04-12 06:41:57 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

How very interesting.

2013-04-11 20:47:11 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 3 +1s)

Because the question comes up every now and then.

2013-04-11 09:03:35 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

This is so cool I can hardly bear it. Biological warfare at its best...

2013-04-10 11:41:54 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

YES YES YES YES YES. Oh YES. :)  ...One this gets running we may actually get something like real broadband speeds OTA. 

2013-04-09 15:29:04 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hmm.

2013-04-09 11:10:24 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Careless of it.  ;)

2013-04-01 00:39:10 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Just for a while... 50% off all our ebooks! Check the link for details.

2013-03-26 18:58:41 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

...And also Lovecraft. :)

2013-03-20 14:00:32 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Just added: Young Wizards New Millennium Edition 5-Fer package for the iPad 3

Thought I’d mention quickly that we’ve just added this iPad 3-friendly five-volume package to the Ebooks Direct store. It’s over here: just use the dropdown menu to get at it..

2013-03-20 13:59:01 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 8 +1s)

Cynics love to extrapolate while optimists look for game-changers. In my latest novel, I portray both spectra of personalities, each with some strong points to make… though only optimists get to see the most important waves of change coming. This year's arrival of reasonably priced and stunningly efficient LED light bulbs, for example. (Businesses are doing whole-building replacements and you should start now in your heavily-lit areas.) That is a sub-game-changer, but important.  The fall in prices for solar energy can't yet compete with the plummeting (in the US price of natural gas, but it is surprising cynics and could accelerate soon.

Now comes a piece of news that could matter. A lot. And it has to do with the latest wonder material that's getting huge attention in Europe and across the industrialized world.  Graphene… a sheet-like molecular form of carbon, related tograph... more »

2013-03-20 13:51:12 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 21 +1s)

Saw this on Reddit. This guy animated a Calvin and Hobbes comic by using Bill Watterson's art as keyframes. It's lovely.

2013-03-20 13:49:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

New blog: Fantasy in the Court event; Interzone; new Wolverine interviews; Bernice in the Beano!

2013-03-20 13:49:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Sad news this day out of Artemisia:

"Very sad news today. Birell Houri Vaughan, known in the SCA as Sir Houri the Savage, 24th Knight of the SCA and the first African American to be Knighted, passed away last night at 6:30 pm mountain time. He battled against his mortality to the very end, as a true warrior, never admitting defeat even as his heart failed him. There is a seat in Valhalla for that lion."

Post copied from the Kingdom of Artemisia Facebook Page

2013-03-18 10:38:12 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

YES. :)

2013-03-17 14:30:24 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

It's time for the pie again. Happy #StPatricksDay, everybody!

2013-03-08 00:25:16 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 8 +1s)

So neat!

2013-03-05 09:24:09 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Too funny.

2013-02-28 23:52:43 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

This is fascinating.

2013-02-28 10:13:46 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Because it'll be St. Patrick's Day pretty soon...!

2013-02-24 10:19:49 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Heh.

2013-02-19 11:19:01 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This just makes me clutch my head....

2013-02-07 00:33:45 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-06 23:19:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

On sale, along with everything else in the store.... (Use the discount code SUPERBOWL. Yes, we're not done with it yet.)

2013-02-06 02:08:42 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

A prime number so bug you'd have to make it sleep in the garage.

2013-02-06 00:59:35 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Something new from me: not SF or fantasy for a change.

http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/2013/02/03/new-childrens-young-adult-fiction-from-diane-duane-uchennas-apples/

2013-02-05 11:33:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

The next three years will feature truly astounding announcements regarding human spaceflight: half a dozen new commercial and potentially human-crewed space vehicles.

http://www.space.com/15735-top-private-spaceships-countdown.html

2013-02-05 11:31:00 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

In the Real World, this doesn't make much economic sense unless the Bundesbank (German Federal Bank) is convinced that there is a real risk that the USA might confiscate those gold reserves. They certainly can't sell the gold in Germany, because the only places to sell gold in large quantities are in London and NYC.

But in the world of the Suppressed Transmissions? Well, you tell me what the real reason is!

2013-02-05 10:14:58 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

This is really, really cool! A mini-kitchen in the space of a barstool.

2013-02-05 09:31:22 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Heh. :)

2013-02-05 09:21:17 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

Uh oh!!

2013-02-04 14:29:12 (5 comments, 8 reshares, 31 +1s)

The Most Awesome Coming Out Cake Ever

Since it's #Punday  I have to post this... from a 15 year old girl named Laurel who left her parents a coming out cake to explain that she's gay. Since the text is a little small, I'll type it up here:

Good morning parents,

I'm gay. I've wanted to tell you for a long time. I thought doing it this way would be a piece of cake. I hope you still love me. I mean, it's hard not to love someone who baked you a cake.

All my friends know and still love me. Your acceptance would be the icing on the cake. I hope you, much like this cake, are not in tiers. 

I hope we can look back on this and say, boy, this really takes the cake.

It gets batter.

Love, Laurel. (Sorry for so many puns.)

For those who want to know how her parents took the news, Laurel reports:&... more »

2013-02-03 15:59:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

One of my favorite places... :)

2013-02-03 14:58:30 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Looking for something to read after the #Superbowl ? (Or before? Or during? Our ebook store is having a 50% off everything sale today! #superbowl2013

http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/2013/02/01/our-super-bowl-book-sale/

2013-02-02 15:21:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

And the (admittedly jokey) reaction begins...

2013-02-01 15:49:54 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

And now for something completely different: a Super Bowl sale. Because... Oh who cares because why. Because there are people for whom Sport is life. (And others who want to escape it at all costs. Sport, that is.) ;)

http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/2013/02/01/our-super-bowl-book-sale/

2013-01-30 23:46:42 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

And here it is: volume 4 of the Young Wizards New Millennium Editions! (Please share the post around if you know people who might be interested. Thanks!)

http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/2013/01/29/its-here-a-wizard-abroad-the-new-millennium-edition/

2013-01-30 11:04:24 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Bemused by the idea that there are people suggesting the should be ashamed of wanting to win more than one award for her book... I didn't know there was a bag limit.

2013-01-29 20:13:42 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

It's out, folks!

http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/2013/01/29/its-here-a-wizard-abroad-the-new-millennium-edition/

2013-01-26 09:16:29 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

This is cute.

2013-01-25 12:24:53 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Oh, wonderful...