Nearly every sf writer who's ever toured the west coast knows Duane - he's the encyclopedically knowledgeable sf buyer for the U Washington Bookseller, who has organized some of the best sf signings in Seattle history. He's a force of nature.
He's also broke. A two-week hospital stay left him drowning in medical debt - despite being insured! - and now he's being threatened by a collection agency.
Now, Duane is forced into participating in one of the most barbaric of contemporary American rituals, fundraising to cover his medical debt. He's raised $6k of the $10k he needs (I just pitched in $100).
If you can afford to help out someone who's done so much for our community, please kick Duane whatever you can spare.
Reblog this when it’s on your dash. You will save someone’s life.
WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
I FELL THROUGH A HOLE IN THE DECK OF OUR NEW HOUSE WHEN I WAS 2 YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER
Just a reminder that these (ebook) prices will be on offer for only 23 hours or so... until, at 23:59 Irish time on New Year's Eve, all prices in the store go back to their pre-discount levels.
So there’s nit much time left to duck in there now and get a whole heap of reading while it's still cheap… while also helping to keep your local online semi-indie author afloat. :)
Here's the link:
Don't want the whole store? No probs. There's always the "All The Wizardry" bundle...
...or the 2023 Pride Bundle, with all our LGBTQ-centered works (naturally including all the Middle Kingdoms works).
So if you've been thinking about grabbing something at a lower price... time's running out. Come visit us and check out our full inventory in detail, if you like. And if you've already taken advantage of one or more of these offers, please reblog for the attention of others who might have missed what's going on? Plz & thank you!
(Adding here our usual sorrowful caveat to our British friends: we can't sell directly to you any more because of Brexit. Our apologies.)
Thanks, all! :)
fun fact about me is that when i was a kid id write capital E’s with as many of those little horizontal lines as possible and id call them ladder E’s and adults fucking hated them
…Because we can. (And because it looks like some extra people will be wandering in due to an unexpected crossposting on Twitter…)
This means it’ll be closing down at 23:59 Irish time / 12:59 Hawai’ian time, today, 1 September 2022.
For those of you who haven’t seen them before, the details are below:
Just for Tumblr users – for the next 5 hours or so (until 12:59 Hawai’ian time on 1 September 2022), get 20% off the price of the already-discounted package containing the entire contents of our Ebooks Direct store. With the extra discount, that’s $44 for the whole thing!
I had some murmurs in my ask box over the last ten days or so from folks who were sad that they’d missed out on earlier iterations of this sale, for one reason or another. And when I mentioned this to @petermorwood, in his usual direct way he shrugged and said, “Well, why not just do it again?”
…And frankly, that made perfect sense. Some people are getting ready to start one version or another of the New School Year, and might possibly enjoy having some extra reading to distract them. And other people might just want to top up their electronic TBR piles on the relatively-cheap. And who knows how many other reasons people might have. So why not?
Therefore: if you’d like to avail yourself of this genuinely around-the-bend bargain price* on the whole-store 35-book package, just go to this URL, put one of the “I Want Everything You’ve Got” packages in your shopping basket (make sure to tell the page which ebook format you want/need: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iBooks/Apple or generic .epub), and then proceed to the checkout. (The fully discounted price won’t show until you get there: this is just the way the store behaves when we’ve already got an across-the-board discount running.)
In the checkout page you’ll find the store has applied your extra discount automatically, like this:
…Then you just make the payment by whatever method you prefer (we do credit cards via Stripe, as well as PayPal), and the store emails you the download links for the files. (If you need assistance with getting the files into your e-reader or app, we’ve got a page at the store with useful advice on that.) And from over here I will applaud you for your general wonderfulness, and get back to work.
(BTW, in case anybody accidentally just goes straight to the main product link [which doesn’t auto-attach the discount], the added-discount code is EVERY24. That way if it’s missing from the field in the checkout page, you can put it in yourself.)
Anyway: Enjoy, all! And if this offer’s of no interest to you, would you kindly consider reblogging it for the attention of others who might like to know about this? Those reblogs really help.** Please & Thank You! :)
(Oh, by the way—! UK people, one [sad] thing: we can’t include you in this offer… please forgive us. Due to Brexit we can no longer sell direct into the UK. Details on that are here. …My apologies for that.) :(
*Because seriously, $44 for 35 ebooks isn’t too bad…
**Especially since I don’t really care to Blaze posts like this. Properly speaking, Blaze is for shitposts. (Like the Duckie of Light.) :)
As we continue tweaking prices at the store, and in the wake of the recent price change on the "All The Wizardry" bundle, it made sense to adjust (downward!) the price of the 9-volume New Millennium Edition box set.
So we've done that, reducing it to USD $24.99. (Yay!)
Don't need all the wizardry we've got, but just want the first nine books in the main sequence? The link above is what you want.*
And as the nice men in the commercial used to say, "Thank you for your support!"
(PS: please note that since Kindles don't take Amazon's old .mobi format any more—they've finally finished switching over to the industry-standard .epub format—that's what our Kindle box set now contains. Just in case you were wondering. But if for some reason you prefer to have .mobi files, we can still supply those: just drop us a note via the store's support email.
*Assuming you're not in the UK, as—unfortunately—due to Brexit-related BS, we can't sell directly to you any more. Details are here.
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