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dduane: Summer Storewide Ebook Sale: we’re extending it And right above this you can see why. That’s Mr. Goodman. He’s the last of  our cats. All his previous companions have departed our household over the last few years due either to old age (Mr. Squeak was eighteen when his body simply wore out) or an increasingly frequent and profoundly upsetting new form of attrition: roadkill. The little country road which was very quiet when we moved here — it’d be an event if a car passed more than once an hour — has become busier and busier over the last few years. Our house is badly placed in that we’re just past a sharp curve which forces drivers to slow down… and after that, they then (in the all-too-familiar manner of frustrated Irish drivers in the countryside) immediately hit the gas again.  They don’t much care what’s in front of them when they speed up, it seems. Bubble (2 years old), Beemer (7 years), and little Pip (18 months old) were all lost to us this way. In all cases it was mercifully instantaneous… not that this was much consolation. They had all been raised as outdoor countryside cats: keeping them in was never a realistic option. They lived happy lives until those lives stopped. Now only Goodman’s left, and he’s sad, because until now he’s never been alone in his life. We’ve been holding off on dealing with this while we started working out how to handle the problem, since we really don’t want to lose any more cats the way Beems, Bubs and Pipkin went. Now, though, it’s time to get Mr. G.  some friends, and we have a request in at the best of our local rural vets for a pair of female littermates, eight weeks old. But these guys are going to be actively dissuaded from going out in the road. We’re going to be installing in-the-ground pet security fencing, the kind that keeps the pet from crossing it by Tech Magic. Goodman won’t mind this, as he doesn’t roam much at his age (he’s thirteen and was neutered early) and the kittens won’t mind either; our yard’s a good size inside where the fencing will go, and they’ll have plenty of room to do the usual crazy kitten things. (And ideally they’ll run Goodman ragged, which he’ll enjoy. Even at thirteen he has a lot of fun in him: when he gets the wind up his tail, his “handbrake turns” on the tile at the bottom of the stairs are something to see.) We’ve been running a sale during late June and early July at our Ebooks Direct store to help defray the costs of the fencing (which are fairly hefty, as we have to gp up and down the road a good ways). We’re financially very close to where we need to be to get this plan implemented, so I’ve asked our online store manager to let the discount codes run for one week more. We’re deepening the discount a little, too: until further notice, everybody can have 60% off anything in the store. The discount code is JUNEJULY — if you need info on how to use the discounts at our shop, it’s here. All the ebooks in our catalog are included — you can browse the catalog here to see what we have to offer. Newest in the store are the Peter Morwood “Horse Lord” prequels Greylady and Widowmaker, and DD’s new ebooks Raetian Tales 1: A Wind from the South and Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses: The Author’s Cut; and of course we also feature (and are discounting) the 9-volume Young Wizards International Edition complete sets. All you have to do to obtain the discount is use the discount code / coupon code JUNEJULY during the checkout process. As mentioned above, instructions about how and when to put the code in are here. Meanwhile, if you would reblog this as widely as possible so that people who haven’t seen the offer can have a chance to see it and take advantage of it if they want to, that would be very kind of you, and Peter and I and Goodman will all thank you very much indeed.  (But you knew that.)   Thanks again!

dduane:

Summer Storewide Ebook Sale: we’re extending it

And right above this you can see why. That’s Mr. Goodman.

He’s the last of  our cats. All his previous companions have departed our household over the last few years due either to old age (Mr. Squeak was eighteen when his body simply wore out) or an increasingly frequent and profoundly upsetting new form of attrition: roadkill.

The little country road which was very quiet when we moved here — it’d be an event if a car passed more than once an hour — has become busier and busier over the last few years. Our house is badly placed in that we’re just past a sharp curve which forces drivers to slow down… and after that, they then (in the all-too-familiar manner of frustrated Irish drivers in the countryside) immediately hit the gas again.  They don’t much care what’s in front of them when they speed up, it seems.

Bubble (2 years old), Beemer (7 years), and little Pip (18 months old) were all lost to us this way. In all cases it was mercifully instantaneous… not that this was much consolation. They had all been raised as outdoor countryside cats: keeping them in was never a realistic option. They lived happy lives until those lives stopped.

Now only Goodman’s left, and he’s sad, because until now he’s never been alone in his life. We’ve been holding off on dealing with this while we started working out how to handle the problem, since we really don’t want to lose any more cats the way Beems, Bubs and Pipkin went. Now, though, it’s time to get Mr. G.  some friends, and we have a request in at the best of our local rural vets for a pair of female littermates, eight weeks old. But these guys are going to be actively dissuaded from going out in the road. We’re going to be installing in-the-ground pet security fencing, the kind that keeps the pet from crossing it by Tech Magic.

Goodman won’t mind this, as he doesn’t roam much at his age (he’s thirteen and was neutered early) and the kittens won’t mind either; our yard’s a good size inside where the fencing will go, and they’ll have plenty of room to do the usual crazy kitten things. (And ideally they’ll run Goodman ragged, which he’ll enjoy. Even at thirteen he has a lot of fun in him: when he gets the wind up his tail, his “handbrake turns” on the tile at the bottom of the stairs are something to see.)

We’ve been running a sale during late June and early July at our Ebooks Direct store to help defray the costs of the fencing (which are fairly hefty, as we have to gp up and down the road a good ways). We’re financially very close to where we need to be to get this plan implemented, so I’ve asked our online store manager to let the discount codes run for one week more. We’re deepening the discount a little, too: until further notice, everybody can have 60% off anything in the store. The discount code is JUNEJULY — if you need info on how to use the discounts at our shop, it’s here.

All the ebooks in our catalog are included — you can browse the catalog here to see what we have to offer. Newest in the store are the Peter Morwood “Horse Lord” prequels Greylady and Widowmaker, and DD’s new ebooks Raetian Tales 1: A Wind from the South and Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses: The Author’s Cut; and of course we also feature (and are discounting) the 9-volume Young Wizards International Edition complete sets.

All you have to do to obtain the discount is use the discount code / coupon code JUNEJULY during the checkout process. As mentioned above, instructions about how and when to put the code in are here.

Meanwhile, if you would reblog this as widely as possible so that people who haven’t seen the offer can have a chance to see it and take advantage of it if they want to, that would be very kind of you, and Peter and I and Goodman will all thank you very much indeed.  (But you knew that.)   :)

Thanks again!

10 months ago

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    Don’t have any spare or I’d totally be buying stuff, so I’m counting on my few followers to cover me this time!
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    Godspeed with that! :) And WOW, that is only 16$ for the whole Young Wizards series, DRM-free! Extremely tempting … I...
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    If you haven’t read Diane Duane, now is a great time to start. I began with Door Into Fire, and would recommend it to...
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    I have pretty much bought all the books! But! If you haven’t already, please do!
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    This discount is insane. I just bought 14 books for less than $30. GORGEOUS. Plus, I have to support this adorable cat.
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    We have the entire young wizards ebooks now. I started reading them when I was the age my eldest daughter is now. Gosh.
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    I finally caved and bought the Young Wizards e-books! This is a great sale, and you should go buy some books! \o/
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