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Cover reveal for the print edition of THE DRAGONDAIN.
Cover reveal for the print edition of THE DRAGONDAIN.
This isn't the exact final, yet, but it's getting pretty darn close.
And, if you want to see a larger image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ulfhedna...
This isn't the exact final, yet, but it's getting pretty darn close.
And, if you want to see a larger image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ulfhedna...
Pocket Rinn
Email me a pic of your Pocket Rinn and I'll post them in the Pocket Rinn Gallery tab on my blog.
This pocket Rinn is my daughter's cat: Simpkin. She's reclining on 1,000 copies of THE DRAGONDAIN.
This is Preciosa the jaguar. She lives in Peru. She REALLY wants to read The Moon Coin!
Preciosa is a tad larger than your average pocket Rinn. I can't tell from the pic how many pounds she weighs, but I'm guessing she's still smaller than a real Rinn cub, and so I decided to include her. Besides, how many North American authors get to post pics of a jaguar pawing at their book? :)
This pocket Rinn is my daughter's cat: Simpkin. She's reclining on 1,000 copies of THE DRAGONDAIN.
This is Preciosa the jaguar. She lives in Peru. She REALLY wants to read The Moon Coin!
Preciosa is a tad larger than your average pocket Rinn. I can't tell from the pic how many pounds she weighs, but I'm guessing she's still smaller than a real Rinn cub, and so I decided to include her. Besides, how many North American authors get to post pics of a jaguar pawing at their book? :)
THE MOON COIN is 3 shelves shy of the 2,000 mark!
It took THE MOON COIN twelve-and-a-half month to reach 1,000 shelves on GoodReads. And it looks like it's going reach 2,000 in three months.
Thanks everybody!
Here's a chart of THE MOON COIN'S GoodReads shelf adoption. That dramatic rise in the middle directly corresponds to when the paperback edition was released.
Thanks everybody!
Here's a chart of THE MOON COIN'S GoodReads shelf adoption. That dramatic rise in the middle directly corresponds to when the paperback edition was released.
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
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).
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).
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
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!
