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  Diane Duane will write The Door into Starlight if fans can prove interest

  1287 readersA number of authors have as-yet-unwritten books that are the subject of inquiries. (I mentioned George R.R. Martin’s experiences of that nature last year.) For Diane Duane, it’s the last book of the “Middle Kingdoms” series, The Door into Starlight. Though it has been thirty years since the first book in the series, Duane has

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  Diane Duane releases revised Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses e-book

  986 readersDiane Duane has revised and relaunched another of her backlist as an e-book. This one, Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses, takes CSI-style forensic drama (though it was first published in 2002, the same year as the original CSI launched) and puts it into an SF/fantasy setting. It’s one of the few Duane books I haven’t gotten

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  Review: The Young Wizards series and The Big Meow by Diane Duane

  2154 readersLong before Harry Potter, there was another young-adult series about teenaged wizards. Diane Duane began her “Young Wizards” series in 1980 with the novel So You Want to Be a Wizard, an exciting adventure about a pair of bookish, unpopular-at-school teens who discover they can do magic and proceed to save the universe together. To

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  Young Wizards e-book errors to be fixed by publisher, thanks to reader feedback

  1103 readersDiane Duane has posted an update to her blog on the error correction issue with Young Wizards e-books. She contacted her editor, who contacted the digital editions department at her publisher, and she’s received a response from them that they have developed a new error-correction process that looks specifically for commonly-occurring OCR errors and eliminates

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  Diane Duane offers e-book format bundles, Young Wizards series bundle in her e-book store

  2946 readersA couple more e-book-related news items from Diane Duane’s blog that hit in recent days: First, Duane is now able to make available multi-format bundles, including both EPUB and Kindle/MOBI, for all the DRM-free e-books in her store. (And .LIT will be added to these bundles as well, over the next month.) To celebrate, she’s running

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  Kobo makes Young Wizards e-books available in Canada

  1508 readersSpeaking of Kobo, Diane Duane posted another note on her blog about the Canadian Young Wizards situation (which we previously mentioned here). Nathan Maharaj, Kobo’s Marketing Manager, saw her earlier blog and contacted her publisher to find out about the Canadian rights for the Young Wizards novels. Upon learning they did have the rights, Kobo

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  Diane Duane releases revised Middle Kingdom e-books

  2315 readersLast year I reported on Diane Duane’s release of her “Middle Kingdom” series as DRM-free e-books through her own e-book store. Today, Duane posted an update to her blog noting that revised versions of these e-books are becoming available, starting with The Door into Fire. (The other two will follow soon.) The revisions are strictly

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  Diane Duane runs 50% off sale on DRM-free e-books

  1602 readersDiane Duane is running a Summer Solstice sale on her DRM-free multiformat e-book store, featuring her own and husband Peter Morwood’s works (including the Young Wizards International Edition and the revised version of Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses). The discount is 50% off, obtained by use of the discount code SOLSTICE in the checkout, and lasts

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  Diane Duane marks her e-books down 50% for today only

  1820 readersFor “absolutely no reason”, Diane Duane is running a 50%-off sale on every e-book in her on-line store, good today, October 10th, only. Use the coupon code NOREASON to get the discount. Duane’s e-books are available DRM-free in both mobi (Kindle) and EPUB (Nook, Kobo) formats, and are already quite reasonably priced. 50% off that

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  Making War Personal in Young Adult Novels

  1476 readersThere’s even a place for poetry in teen war novels. There is a place for beauty. By Beth Kephart War is personal, the saying goes. It’s the buckle and moil where the house used to be. It’s the shadow where once there was a friend. It’s the brother gone missing and the mother at risk. It is