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THE MOON COIN and THE DRAGONDAIN have landed on a Listopia list: Great Middle Grade Reads. Check it out and vote for all the middle grade books you love.
THE MOON COIN and THE DRAGONDAIN have landed on a Listopia list: Great Middle Grade Reads. Check it out and vote for all the middle grade books you love.
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/27...
And here are some other Listopia lists THE MOON COIN shows up on: http://www.goodreads.com/list/book/12...
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/27...
And here are some other Listopia lists THE MOON COIN shows up on: http://www.goodreads.com/list/book/12...
Release announcement: print edition of THE DRAGONDAIN
The print edition of THE DRAGONDAIN hits shelves December 4, 2012!
"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
It's the middle of the night, you need to send your brother to the Moon Realm, and he won’t wake up. So you improvise. . . .
When a confused Jasper awakes, he's convinced he's dreaming. But by the time he meets Greydor, Jasper understands that this is no dream. In fact, persuading the King of the Rinn to work with the men of Dain to defeat their common enemy is a nightmare. Then there’s the other side of the coin: convincing Tavin and Dubb that saddling a Rinn isn’t certain death. (“It’ll be fun!”) And perhaps even a greater worry: can he make friends with Dubb’s daughter Darce before she punches his lights out?
Lily has problems, too. There’s a little mousie scratching in her closet. Or at least, it sounds like a little mousie. Oh, and her second confrontation with Curse, and trying to form her first peerin. (Don’t you have to be from Dain to do that?) And where’s Ebb?
One thing’s for sure: now that Lily and Jasper have entered the Moon Realm, nothing can ever be the same again.
Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Book Two in the award winning Moon Realm Series.
For a Two Chapter Preview: click HERE.
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"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
It's the middle of the night, you need to send your brother to the Moon Realm, and he won’t wake up. So you improvise. . . .
When a confused Jasper awakes, he's convinced he's dreaming. But by the time he meets Greydor, Jasper understands that this is no dream. In fact, persuading the King of the Rinn to work with the men of Dain to defeat their common enemy is a nightmare. Then there’s the other side of the coin: convincing Tavin and Dubb that saddling a Rinn isn’t certain death. (“It’ll be fun!”) And perhaps even a greater worry: can he make friends with Dubb’s daughter Darce before she punches his lights out?
Lily has problems, too. There’s a little mousie scratching in her closet. Or at least, it sounds like a little mousie. Oh, and her second confrontation with Curse, and trying to form her first peerin. (Don’t you have to be from Dain to do that?) And where’s Ebb?
One thing’s for sure: now that Lily and Jasper have entered the Moon Realm, nothing can ever be the same again.
Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Book Two in the award winning Moon Realm Series.
For a Two Chapter Preview: click HERE.
The Dragondain's GoodReads page
"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
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
WIN A SIGNED & NUMBERED, LIMITED EDITION PAPERBACK
Signed, numbered, limited editions of
The Moon Coin
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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SPECIAL OFFER: THE WINNER OF THE DRAGONDAIN WILL RECEIVE A FREE GIFT VERSION OF THE MOON COIN: limited to the following eReaders: Kindle (Amazon), Nook (Barnes & Noble), or iPad/iPad mini/iPhone/iPod Touch (iTunes iBookstore).
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Signed, numbered, limited editions of
The Moon Coin
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.
Click HERE to enter giveaway for The Moon Coin.
&
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.
Click HERE to enter giveaway for The Dragondain.
SPECIAL OFFER: THE WINNER OF THE DRAGONDAIN WILL RECEIVE A FREE GIFT VERSION OF THE MOON COIN: limited to the following eReaders: Kindle (Amazon), Nook (Barnes & Noble), or iPad/iPad mini/iPhone/iPod Touch (iTunes iBookstore).
Amazon Barnes and Noble iTunes iBookstore
TheMoonRealm.com Twitter facebook GoodReads tumblr Google+
Copyright © 2011, 2012 by Richard Due. All rights reserved. Gibbering Gnome Press,
A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™ The Moon Realm™
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.
http://goo.gl/Jh2sK
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.
http://goo.gl/Jh2sK
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...
The Moon Coin has cracked Amazon's top 20 bestsellers (in their Free store) for the second day in a row.
The Moon Coin has cracked Amazon's top 20 bestsellers (in their Free store) for the second day in a row. It's the only middle grade novel there, which I find very curious. If you or someone you know loves epic adventure fantasies, go grab a copy before the promotion ends!
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Win signed 1st edition. Will send ANYWHERE ... on Earth.
“A great middle grade fantasy.” --ForeWord Reviews
"The Moon Coin is a fine and adventurous read for young adults, highly recommended."--Midwest Book Review
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Telling a wicked good tale is a talent, but making it sound believable is a gift. Even as young teens, Lily and Jasper Winter still love their uncle's bedtime tales. But they don't believe, as they once did, that the tales he spins are true, or that his fantastic paintings are from places he's actually been . . . that would be childish.
Now Uncle Ebb is missing.
Lily and Jasper are supposed to stay out of trouble while their parents search Ebb’s study, but his mansion is full of distractions. A Tesla generator thrums in the basement. Prismatic electrimals drift lazily around walls resembling underwater reefs. Then Oscar, a fuchsia-plumed flying seahorse, leads the siblings to a secret room, where the mystery of their uncle’s disappearance deepens. They’ve never seen Ebb without his golden necklace, yet there it is, with a curious coin dangling from it.
That night, Lily's careful examination of the coin yields unexpected results. To her surprise, it transports her to the Moon Realm, the setting of Uncle Ebb's bedtime tales. Lily is thrilled to meet the horse-sized, leonine Rinn and the lunamancers of Dain. But something is wrong. The inhabitants of the moons are no longer allies, and the heroic characters from the tales either don’t exist or are known only as myths. Worse, one of the moons appears to be dead, haunted by an evil villain named Wrengfoul. And no one seems to know what’s become of Ebb.
Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Volume One of the The Moon Realm Series.
Gold medal winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for pre-teen fantasy.
"The Moon Coin is a fine and adventurous read for young adults, highly recommended."--Midwest Book Review
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Telling a wicked good tale is a talent, but making it sound believable is a gift. Even as young teens, Lily and Jasper Winter still love their uncle's bedtime tales. But they don't believe, as they once did, that the tales he spins are true, or that his fantastic paintings are from places he's actually been . . . that would be childish.
Now Uncle Ebb is missing.
Lily and Jasper are supposed to stay out of trouble while their parents search Ebb’s study, but his mansion is full of distractions. A Tesla generator thrums in the basement. Prismatic electrimals drift lazily around walls resembling underwater reefs. Then Oscar, a fuchsia-plumed flying seahorse, leads the siblings to a secret room, where the mystery of their uncle’s disappearance deepens. They’ve never seen Ebb without his golden necklace, yet there it is, with a curious coin dangling from it.
That night, Lily's careful examination of the coin yields unexpected results. To her surprise, it transports her to the Moon Realm, the setting of Uncle Ebb's bedtime tales. Lily is thrilled to meet the horse-sized, leonine Rinn and the lunamancers of Dain. But something is wrong. The inhabitants of the moons are no longer allies, and the heroic characters from the tales either don’t exist or are known only as myths. Worse, one of the moons appears to be dead, haunted by an evil villain named Wrengfoul. And no one seems to know what’s become of Ebb.
Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Volume One of the The Moon Realm Series.
Gold medal winner of the Moonbeam Children's Book Award for pre-teen fantasy.
The Moon Coin “charming and clever and beautiful and daring”
A Perfect Tales-Told-By-the-Fire Book
By Tricia Rightmire
I’ve been working on how to phrase this review for a while, but I sit down planning to sound all clever and erudite and end up getting all wistful and making lots of hands-over-my-heart gestures at the screen, so I think this time I’m just going to go with that. . . .
The Moon Coin is lovely, folks. It is charming and clever and beautiful and daring; it’s full of adventure and surprises and courage and puzzles and characters with whom I fell immediately and permanently in love. It’s written with a younger audience in mind—think “older elementary school, some middle schoolers”—but it’s the sort of book that just begs for a blanket and some comfy pillows and a crackling fire on the hearth, with everyone piled in together and hearing about far-off lands full of faeries and dragons and cats big enough to ride (they get really crabby about that, though, so I don’t recommend trying it). It doesn’t shy away from big words or complex ideas, but couches them all in a universe that’s so rich and consuming that they’re not “too hard” . . . and it’s just. so. fun.
The downside is that it’s the first of an as-yet uncompleted series, so you can’t just sit down and binge-read through them all; the upside is that every minute in this world is delicious and grand, and makes you want nothing more than to have your own Moon Coin so you can go adventuring. Grab the youngsters who mean the most to you, settle in, and enjoy!
By Tricia Rightmire
I’ve been working on how to phrase this review for a while, but I sit down planning to sound all clever and erudite and end up getting all wistful and making lots of hands-over-my-heart gestures at the screen, so I think this time I’m just going to go with that. . . .
The Moon Coin is lovely, folks. It is charming and clever and beautiful and daring; it’s full of adventure and surprises and courage and puzzles and characters with whom I fell immediately and permanently in love. It’s written with a younger audience in mind—think “older elementary school, some middle schoolers”—but it’s the sort of book that just begs for a blanket and some comfy pillows and a crackling fire on the hearth, with everyone piled in together and hearing about far-off lands full of faeries and dragons and cats big enough to ride (they get really crabby about that, though, so I don’t recommend trying it). It doesn’t shy away from big words or complex ideas, but couches them all in a universe that’s so rich and consuming that they’re not “too hard” . . . and it’s just. so. fun.
The downside is that it’s the first of an as-yet uncompleted series, so you can’t just sit down and binge-read through them all; the upside is that every minute in this world is delicious and grand, and makes you want nothing more than to have your own Moon Coin so you can go adventuring. Grab the youngsters who mean the most to you, settle in, and enjoy!
