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Word Spelunking is running an interview they did with me.
Word Spelunking is running an interview they did with me at: http://wordspelunking.blogspot.com/20...
Cover Reveal for THE DRAGONDAIN
It's finished!!! Cover Reveal for THE DRAGONDAIN:
TheMoonRealm.com
eBook available September 8, 2012.
Paperback to follow later this year.
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Copyright © 2011 by Richard Due. All rights reserved. Gibbering Gnome Press,
A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™ The Moon Realm™
TheMoonRealm.com
eBook available September 8, 2012.
Paperback to follow later this year.
❍
Copyright © 2011 by Richard Due. All rights reserved. Gibbering Gnome Press,
A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™ The Moon Realm™
2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award
The Moon Coin just won the 2012 Moonbeam Children's Book Award for pre-teen fiction. Gold.
I can't believe it!!!
I can't believe it!!!
The Traverse City Children's Book Festival, the Moonbeam Awards, and a literary scavenger hunt.
I just got back from a trip to Traverse City, Michigan, where the Traverse City Children's Book Festival was held in a beautiful old Opera House. It's lovely town right on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the people there support not one, but two amazing independent bookshops: Horizon Books, and Brilliant Books. (You can get THE MOON COIN in Horizon Books now, btw, just sayin'.)
The Traverse City Children's Book Festival. I'm in the lower right corner.
I got to meet a lot of amazing authors at the festival, but for me the most exciting part was meeting the kids: you would have thought they were in a candy store!
Some of the winners on display in the Opera House. (I did NOT arrange these books!)
After the festival, we packed up, got dressed up, and headed out to the top floor of the tallest building in town: the Park Place Hotel, where the Moonbeam Awards Ceremony was held.
I'm the dude on the far right. Jim Barnes, master of ceremonies, is in the center.
Lastly, I want to mention that the GoodReads Group, Anything Goes, has picked The Moon Coin as their December Book of the Month. Anything Goes is mostly comprised of UK members, but anyone is welcome to join. I've been in contact with Chris, a group moderator, and she's given me permission to put together a little international contest. So get ready for a literary scavenger hunt (drawing off The Moon Coin). The winner will receive a signed, numbered, paperback copy (I will ship this anywhere I can (except to the moon Darwyth; if you're on the moon Darwyth then you're on your own; sorry). I'll post the contest here at Anything Goes on the December the 1st. So if you like scavenger hunts, be on the lookout!
The Traverse City Children's Book Festival. I'm in the lower right corner.
I got to meet a lot of amazing authors at the festival, but for me the most exciting part was meeting the kids: you would have thought they were in a candy store!
Some of the winners on display in the Opera House. (I did NOT arrange these books!)
After the festival, we packed up, got dressed up, and headed out to the top floor of the tallest building in town: the Park Place Hotel, where the Moonbeam Awards Ceremony was held.
I'm the dude on the far right. Jim Barnes, master of ceremonies, is in the center.
Lastly, I want to mention that the GoodReads Group, Anything Goes, has picked The Moon Coin as their December Book of the Month. Anything Goes is mostly comprised of UK members, but anyone is welcome to join. I've been in contact with Chris, a group moderator, and she's given me permission to put together a little international contest. So get ready for a literary scavenger hunt (drawing off The Moon Coin). The winner will receive a signed, numbered, paperback copy (I will ship this anywhere I can (except to the moon Darwyth; if you're on the moon Darwyth then you're on your own; sorry). I'll post the contest here at Anything Goes on the December the 1st. So if you like scavenger hunts, be on the lookout!
While my wife and children race down the sloops like the ski bunnies they are, I've holed up at Trader's Coffee to edit THE MURK.
This picture was taken directly across the street from the coffee shop. If you've never been to Deep Creek Lake, MD, in the winter: yes! the water really is that blue!
I've got a decaf latte, a warmed palmier, a printout of chapter two, and four very sharp dixon ticonderogas at my side. Now, to work!
Good news for Moon Realm fans! Baker & Taylor has picked up Gibbering Gnome Press as a vendor.
Which means . . . after I slay a thousand forms, hire TRON to break into B&N's catalog system, kill the witch, and bring back the broom to Oz . . . after all that . . . The Moon Coin is headed for Barnes & Noble!
Here's how it happened: back in the fall, Barnes and Noble sent me a letter saying they wanted to carry The Moon Coin in their brick and mortar bookstores. The problem is that B&N doesn't acquire books from publishers and authors, they get them from distributors and wholesalers.
Well, this week I heard back from Baker & Taylor. I'VE GOT THE BROOM AND I'M HEADING BACK TO OZ! My book is going to be available to B&N, (among many other bookstores), and a 95% of all libraries!
I have no idea how long it's going to take me to get back to Oz, though. A couple months maybe? There's just never a roving band of blood-thirsty flying monkeys around when you need one. Have you ever noticed that? But when I do get back, and into the Barnes & Noble catalog, B&Ns everywhere will be able to stock the series!
I've already heard from one B&N children's dept manager who says she already has a special display in mind. She also plans to put up posters! Yikes!
One B&N store down, 722 to go.
In other news, I'm back up on Google Plus:
https://plus.google.com/1163465661647...
Here's how it happened: back in the fall, Barnes and Noble sent me a letter saying they wanted to carry The Moon Coin in their brick and mortar bookstores. The problem is that B&N doesn't acquire books from publishers and authors, they get them from distributors and wholesalers.
Well, this week I heard back from Baker & Taylor. I'VE GOT THE BROOM AND I'M HEADING BACK TO OZ! My book is going to be available to B&N, (among many other bookstores), and a 95% of all libraries!
I have no idea how long it's going to take me to get back to Oz, though. A couple months maybe? There's just never a roving band of blood-thirsty flying monkeys around when you need one. Have you ever noticed that? But when I do get back, and into the Barnes & Noble catalog, B&Ns everywhere will be able to stock the series!
I've already heard from one B&N children's dept manager who says she already has a special display in mind. She also plans to put up posters! Yikes!
One B&N store down, 722 to go.
In other news, I'm back up on Google Plus:
https://plus.google.com/1163465661647...
"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
Washington DC Book Signing
This was taken right after an Imagine, Write, Repeat presentation. Here I’m talking to one of the students while signing Moon Realm books. It was a smart crowd, filled with lots of good questions. The signing ran over a bit, but luckily the parents were very gracious. The librarian asked if I’d be interesting in coming back to run a writing workshop!
Eastern High School library, Wash. DC, Friday 31, 2014
Eastern High School library, Wash. DC, Friday 31, 2014
