The Newest Bundle At Ebooks Direct.

Ok, but now how about they codify this into law so it's not so easy to flip back and forth just based on who is currently appointed to the FCC :/

electoral-vote.com

FCC Reinstates Net Neutrality

Click on the map for the article

Finally! My partner talks about this non-stop every holiday season and literally pauses the movie to back out and watch this scene from the extras section every time she re-watches it (and I love her for it ❤) and I've seen reddit threads going back several years now discussing how Disney has talked about adding it back into the movie on D+. Seemed like it was maybe just forgotten, but it's finally happening!!

If you don’t start leaking out of your eyeholes during at least ONE song from the Muppet Christmas Carol soundtrack, then I have some CAPCHA’s for you, cuz you ain’t human.

My weaknesses are When Love is Gone, Bless us All, and It Feels Like Christmas.

I also maintain that whoever made the decision to CUT the When Love is Gone scene from the movie was Evil Incarnate. It gutted one of the most emotional scenes in the movie and broke the flow terribly.

In case you’ve never seen it:

ETA:

APPARENTLY Disney+ is finally making things right and will have the FULL (“Director’s Cut” psssh!) available starting DECEMBER 9th!!! FINALLY

Legendary U Washington bookseller Duane Wilkins is drowning in medical debt

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.

One more day

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:

Ebooks Direct

Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle

By popular demand! This ebook bundle contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with t

Don't want the whole store? No probs. There's always the "All The Wizardry" bundle...

Ebooks Direct

Young Wizards "All The Wizardry" Bundle

This bundle contains all the Young Wizards material in the Ebooks Direct inventory. That's nineteen ebooks, containing:: The nine New Mille

...or the 2023 Pride Bundle, with all our LGBTQ-centered works (naturally including all the Middle Kingdoms works).

Ebooks Direct

2023 Pride Month Package

This package contains all our Middle Kingdoms material—some of the first LGBTQ-representing epic fantasy in the 20th-century fantasy field,

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! :)

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

Peter Morwood

I am so sorry to have to tell you all about this. None of you, I suspect, will ever have any idea how sorry.

I am in utter shock and terrible pain to have to inform everyone that our friend, my dear husband and creative partner of nearly forty years, Peter Morwood, passed away suddenly early this morning after a brief illness that as late as yesterday (when his doctor saw him) had seemed to be on the mend.

I'm not in any position to say much more about this situation now, as you'll understand my current mental state is not up to the task. (I keep expecting to wake up from a bad dream, but it shows no sign of breaking.) I will let people know more about this in coming days.

There will be a postmortem shortly to determine the exact cause of his death. I'll share what details of this are appropriate as they become clear.

Meanwhile in the short term I'm very much going to need assistance with the expenses that in the days that follow will inevitably surround what's happened. For those people who want to assist, please feel free to use the Ko-Fi account here, and simply tag the associated messages, etc, "P expenses". ETA: Please choose the Stripe payment option at Ko-Fi rather than PayPal, as PP seems to be having some kind of obscure difficulties at the moment. I have disconnected PayPal until this is resolved.

My love will wait for me, I know, however long it takes. He's never minded waiting. (the saddest smile) My job now is to make sure he's not forgotten while I go on.

Meanwhile, can I just say to all of of you: I thank you all ahead of time for all the support and fondness for Peter that I know so many of you will express. He'd blush over it, I know. (He always did.) Please forgive me for being unable to do much in the way of answering messages, just now, in the wake of having to get to grips with this sudden and awful change in my world.

But also let me say, so urgently: Hug your loved ones now, while you can. Eventually a day will come when, expected or not, your opportunities end.

Thanks, friends.

--DD

At Ebooks Direct: OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS

Warning! Contains:

New York City

The Tree in Rockefeller Plaza

Young Wizards grown up (okay, in their mid-twenties, be that way.)

Gay wizards in bed (Just two of them. But you may be able to guess which ones...)

Dolly Parton (singing)

2020 behaving very badly

...and one little Owl who's mad as hell and NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE.

Please note that this is your last chance to obtain the ebook at its present low price before all the prices at the Ebooks Direct store go up on January 1st.

Get Owl Be Home For Christmas

This work also appears in Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal, as well as a standalone volume in the "All The Wizardry" bundle.*

...As usual, with regret, please note that due to Brexit, Ebooks Direct can no longer sell directly to UK-based readers. (More details here.) However, if you're UK-based, you can obtain the Kindle ebook of Owl... or the print or ebook versions of Interim Errantry 2 from Amazon.co.uk.

And a minor side note: last week's medical expenses took something of an unplanned-for bite out of local finance, so reblogs would be welcome just now, if you feel inclined. Please & thank you!

*Now that I think of it, it's also in the 2023 Pride Month package. This little bird really gets around... :)

Support the BBC for having a trans character in recent episodes of 'Doctor Who'

Apparently the BBC (UK) has had 144 complaints about a recent episode of Doctor Who because it contained an openly trans character.

I've made a complaint to the BBC that there weren't enough transgender characters in Doctor Who. I would love if 144 other people did the same thing. Here's the link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/complaints/make-a-complaint/#/Complaint

(For your easy reference: "The Star Beast" aired on 25/11/2023 on BBC One, and the trans character is called Rose.)

Please note that the complaint form asks for your UK postcode, so only UK folks can join in with this - but if you suspect you might have any UK-based followers, maybe give us a reblog to boost the signal?

Reply when you've done it, so I can keep track of us!

Here's my complaint:

I recommend:

Avoid sarcasm or irony. Assume your post will be taken literally. If you are clearly joking or being mean you will be ignored or misunderstood.

Include some gratitude/appreciation. It's pretty great that they included a trans woman in a positive way, and they should know that they have explicit support for that.

he has so many opinions to give

just ask him, please

Arctic wolves traversing deep snow...