Diane Duane dot com http://dianeduane.com en DD's Dublin2019 Worldcon schedule http://dianeduane.com/diane-duane-dublin-2019-worldcon-schedule <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/field/image/RainbowCCD.jpg?itok=TKpuqSyw"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/field/image/RainbowCCD.jpg?itok=TKpuqSyw" width="1000" height="667" alt="The Convention Centre, Dublin, and the Samuel Beckett Bridge" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>For those who may be attending <a href="https://Dublin2019.com" target="_blank">Dublin 2019</a>, the 77th World Science Fiction Convention: here's my schedule.</p> <p>Please note that what you see here are only those public events where I'm either part of the program item proper, or expected to be in attendance. I may be present at other programming events (I mean, wow, I really hope so...), but I'm not going to try listing those here because I honestly have <em>no idea</em> what's going to happen on the day. As some strategist or other would probably have said, "No con attendee's informal schedule long survives contact with reality..." And one other issue in passing: I'm delighted to sign things for people outside of autograph sessions or whatever, but please don't approach me right before a panel or other obligation: save it for afterwards, outside the room. And also: Even <em>after</em> a panel or whatever, <em>please</em> check my schedule to make sure that I don't have to be on another program item in ten minutes... because if this is the case, I'm going to have to blow you off (in as kindly a way as possible) and concentrate on getting myself to wherever I'm expected next. Thanks in advance for understanding!</p> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>THURSDAY 8/15: </b></span></h2> <h3> <span class="s1"><b>12:30 - 13:20: How To Build An Evil Empire, Point Square / Odeon 1</b></span></h3> <blockquote><p class="p4"><span class="s1">Format: Panel</span></p> <p class="p5"><span class="s1">15 Aug 2019, Thursday 12:30 - 13:20, Odeon 1 (Point Square Dublin)</span></p> <p class="p5"><span class="s1">So you want to build an Evil Empire? Using examples from film and literature, our panel of evil geniuses will help you avoid the pitfalls of previous empires with handy hints and tips, such as: don’t build an exhaust port that can set off a chain reaction leading to the reactor, which will destroy your brand new Death Star.</span></p> <p class="p5"><span class="s1">Diane Duane, Verity Allan (University of Cambridge), Lee Harris (Tor.com Publishing) (M), Steve Jackson, Rebecca Roanhorse</span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>15:00 - 17:50: Writers’ Workshop, CCD / Wicklow Room 5</b></span></h2> <blockquote><h5> <span class="s1"><i>Please note that this event is not open to non-registered workshop members. </i></span></h5> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>20:00 - 21:50: Opening Ceremonies &amp; 1944 Retro Hugos, CCD / Auditorium</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Event</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">15 Aug 2019, Thursday 20:00 - 21:50, Auditorium (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Join us on Thursday evening for the official opening of the convention! Hosted by Ellen Klages and Dave Rudden, this evening of surprises will introduce you to our Guests of Honour, present the Big Heart and First Fandom Awards, and pay tribute to science fiction’s illustrious past with the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards. Plus a preview of the many exciting performances that await you over the weekend!</span></p> <p class="p8"><span class="s2">Ellen Klages, Dave Rudden</span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <p> </p> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>FRIDAY 8/16:</b></span></h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>10:00 - 10:50: Storytelling Workshop: Spencer Hotel / Columba 2</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Workshop</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">16 Aug 2019, Friday 10:00 - 10:50, Columba 2 (Spencer Hotel)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Once upon a time some stories were told; now you can tell them your own way. Join us and Guest of Honor Diane Duane to rewrite some familiar fairy tales with a new twist.</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Sal Roche, Diane Duane </span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>14:00 - 14:50: Working As A Writer In Ireland: CCD / Wicklow Hall 2B</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Panel</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">16 Aug 2019, Friday 14:00 - 14:50, Wicklow Hall 2B (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">There is a rich and prolific community of writers who are living and writing in Ireland. In a country that is so friendly to creators, what are some of the benefits available to writers and any obstacles to know about? What resources are available and where does the writing community gather, learn, create, and publish their work locally?</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Ian McDonald, Diane Duane, Gareth Hanrahan (M), Jo Zebedee</span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>16:00 - 16:50: Expanding The Storyverse With Tie-In Novels: CCD / Wicklow Hall 2B</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Panel</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">16 Aug 2019, Friday 16:00 - 16:50, Wicklow Hall 2B (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Media tie-in novels have long been a staple of the wider genre, as eager readers consume books within the Star Wars, Buffy, and superhero universes, and more! Why are these media franchise books so popular? What does it take to write one? Are they just regurgitations of video content, or something more? What should authors looking to write a tie-in novel and readers looking to read one know about this sub-genre?</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane, Martha Wells (M), Pat Cadigan, D.B. Jackson </span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <p> </p> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>SATURDAY 8/17:</b></span></h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>10:00 - 10:50: Space Opera Is For Robots, Soap Opera Is For People: CCD / Liffey Hall 2</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Panel</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">17 Aug 2019, Saturday 10:00 - 10:50, Liffey Hall-2 (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Will humans ever live long-term in space, or is it easier to let our ‘mind children’ go to the stars, whether as uploaded minds or independent intelligences? If humans (or AI) leave for space, would we miss them?</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Lauren James (Walker Books) (M) , Diane Duane, Karl Schroeder (Tor Books), Laurence Raphael Brothers </span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>14:00 - 14:50: Meet the GoHs, Ginjer Buchanan and Diane Duane: CCD / Liffey A (Fan Bar)</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Reception</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">17 Aug 2019, Saturday 14:00 - 14:50, Liffey-A (Fan Bar) (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Join us for an informal gathering with Dublin 2019 Guests of Honour Ginjer Buchanan and Diane Duane. Their featured programme sessions are this afternoon, and this social interval in between gives you a chance to chat with them about about their careers and contributions.</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Ginjer Buchanan (Penguin Random House), Diane Duane</span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>15:00 - 15:50: GoH Fireside Chat with John Scalzi: CCD / Liffey Hall 2</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Interview</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">17 Aug 2019, Saturday 15:00 - 15:50, Liffey Hall-2 (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">John Scalzi sits down to talk with Diane Duane about the ups and downs of a life given over to SFF and genre TV and film. Other topics: crossing the streams of fandom and prodom, the cohabitation of art and married life, the intersection of writing and quirky food habits, and possibly the dead rising from the grave, human sacrifice, and dogs and cats living together… Actually, maybe the cats more than the dogs. In fact, a whole lot more.</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane, John Scalzi </span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>16:00 - 17:00: Autographs, GoHs Ian Donaldson and Diane Duane: CCD / Level 4 Foyer</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Autographing</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">17 Aug 2019, Saturday 16:00 - 17:00, Level 4 Foyer (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane, Ian McDonald</span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>18:00 - 18:50: Reading, GoH Diane Duane: CCD / Liffey Hall 2</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Reading</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">17 Aug 2019, Saturday 18:00 - 18:50, Liffey Hall-2 (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane</span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>20:00 - 20:50: Literary Beer, GoH Diane Duane: CCD / Liffey A (Fan Bar)</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Literary Beer</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">17 Aug 2019, Saturday 20:00 - 20:50, Liffey-A (Fan Bar) (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane </span></p> </blockquote> <h2>  </h2> <p> </p> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>SUNDAY 8/18: </b></span></h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>11:00 - 12:30: GoHs And The Books That Influenced Them: CCD / Second Stage (Liffey B)</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Panel</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">18 Aug 2019, Sunday 11:00 - 12:30, Second Stage (Liffey-B) (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Join many of our Guests of Honour for a discussion about the books that have most influenced them.</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Marianna "Kisu" Leikomaa (M),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bill Burns, Mary Burns, Diane Duane, Steve Jackson, Ginjer Buchanan (Penguin Random House), Ian McDonald</span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>13:00 - 13:50: Wands At The Ready: Magical Worldbuilding in SFF: CCD / Wicklow Hall 1</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Panel</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">18 Aug 2019, Sunday 13:00 - 13:50, Wicklow Hall-1 (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">When worldbuilding with magic, is it enough to add magic to our existing social structures, or does some magic alter the way the world works. There are soft magic systems with few rules and hard magic systems with lots of rules, does this affect the ways magic shapes the narrative? Arthur C Clarke said: "Magic is just science we don't understand yet." At what point does magic become science?</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Christopher Husberg (M), Zen Cho, Diane Duane, Justin Call</span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>15:00 - 15:50: Independent Authors and Book Covers: CCD / Liffey Hall 2</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Talk</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">18 Aug 2019, Sunday 15:00 - 15:50, Liffey Hall-2 (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Standing out in the crowd is always a challenge even for conventionally-published novels in a busy marketplace. It's even more of a challenge for an independent author attempting to present competitively and professionally in a field where readers decide to purchase your book (or not) based on a scrap of imagery usually no bigger than a postage stamp. Diane Duane discusses the challenges of adapting novel-cover design to leverage current trends, including examples of hardware / software pairings that have proven useful in creating new, fresh-looking covers on the fly. </span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane, Peter Morwood </span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>20:00 - 22:00: Hugo Awards: CCD / Auditorium</b></span></h2> <h2>  </h2> <p> </p> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>MONDAY 8/19: </b></span></h2> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>11:00 - 11:50: Creative Couples: CCD / Wicklow Hall 1</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Panel</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">19 Aug 2019, Monday 11:00 - 11:50, Wicklow Hall-1 (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner; Kate Wilhelm and Damon Knight; Kelly Link and Gavin Grant. The histories of science fiction and fantasy are studded with examples of couples who are notable as partnerships as well as individuals. But what is it really like to combine art, work, and life? When, why, and how does a project become a collaboration? In this panel, two creative couples will discuss their experiences.</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Heide Goody (Pigeon Park Press) (M), Diane Duane, Ellen Kushner , Peter Morwood, Delia Sherman</span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>13:00 - 13:50: Diane Duane: Tales From The Duck Factory: CCD / Wicklow Hall 1</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Talk</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">19 Aug 2019, Monday 13:00 - 13:50, Wicklow Hall-1 (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane on writing for television animation and the differences in both creating scripts and the demands of the medium compared to live action. Diane lets you in on what she got away with and the shenanigans of her cohorts.</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Diane Duane, Mr Keith Byrne (Tantalus ) (M)</span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>15:00 - 16:15: Volunteers Meet The GoHs: CCD / Level 5 Foyer (Green Room)</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Reception</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">19 Aug 2019, Monday 15:00 - 16:15, Level 5 Foyer (Green Room) (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">As the convention winds down, our hard-working volunteers will have the opportunity to meet and chat with Dublin 2019's Guests of Honour and Featured Artists. You can join them too! All you need to do is to visit Volunteers and offer your services. Volunteering is a great way to meet people (not just the Guests of Honour!), and there is a wide variety of ways to help. If you're reading this online, send mail to <a href="mailto:volunteers@dublin2019.com"><span class="s3">volunteers@dublin2019.com</span></a> for more information.</span></p> </blockquote> <h2> <span class="s1"><b>16:30 - 17:20: Closing Ceremonies: CCD / Auditorium</b></span></h2> <blockquote><p class="p6"><span class="s1">Format: Event</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">19 Aug 2019, Monday 16:30 - 17:20, Auditorium (CCD)</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">All good things must come to an end – and for Dublin 2019, an Irish Worldcon, that ending will come on Monday at 16:30. We will take a look back at the weekend that was, say farewell to our Guests of Honour, and get a sneak preview of what awaits us at the 2020 Worldcon, CoNZealand.</span></p> <p class="p7"><span class="s1">Mr Eoin Colfer (M)</span></p> </blockquote> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/worldcon" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Worldcon</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/dublin" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Dublin</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/dublin-2019" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Dublin 2019</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/schedule" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">schedule</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news-item" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">news item</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">news</a></div></div></div> Sat, 10 Aug 2019 07:37:13 +0000 DDCom Admin 466 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/diane-duane-dublin-2019-worldcon-schedule#comments Eligible for 2019 Hugo Award nomination: the Tale of the Five Series http://dianeduane.com/hugo-award-nomination-eligibility-tale-of-the-five-series-middle-kingdoms <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/field/image/MK%20Whats%20A%20Hugo%20Final%20Dome%20305%20Environment%201%20Freelorn%20ghost%20llight%20take%203.jpg?itok=3qerKtYg"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/field/image/MK%20Whats%20A%20Hugo%20Final%20Dome%20305%20Environment%201%20Freelorn%20ghost%20llight%20take%203.jpg?itok=3qerKtYg" width="1000" height="500" alt="The Five contemplate a Hugo Award" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>So it's that time of year when nominations open up for the World Science Fiction Society's <a href="http://www.thehugoawards.org/">Hugo Awards, </a>and it turns out that work of mine is eligible to be nominated for one in 2019. (I confess to being a little excited, since some of my earliest work is involved -- not to mention my very earliest award-nominated work -- in a universe for which I have something of a soft spot.)</p> <p>The award in question is the one for Best Series. And the series in question is the <em>Tale of the Five</em> series (also known as the Middle Kingdoms series or "the Door Into..." books): <em><a href="http://bit.ly/Tale1Fire">The Door Into Fire</a>,</em> <em><a href="http://bit.ly/Tale2Shadow">The Door Into Shadow</a></em>, and <em><a href="http://bit.ly/Tale3Sunset">The Door Into Sunset.</a></em> Also involved here is the first of a bridging series of five novella-length works dealing with events occurring between the original trilogy and the main series' upcoming completion in <em><a href="http://www.middlekingdoms.com/the-tale-of-the-five/the-door-into-starlight/">The Door Into Starlight.</a></em></p> <p>The WSFS rules say:</p> <blockquote><p>To be eligible for nomination for a Hugo award for Best Series in a given year, a series must comprise at least three works totalling at least 240,000 words, and one work in the series must have been released during the previous year.</p> </blockquote> <p>The first three works in the <em>Tale of the Five</em> series total approximately 330,000 words. The first bridging novella, <a href="https://ebooks.direct/collections/customer-favorites/products/the-levin-gad-tales-of-the-five-1" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank"><em>Tales of the Five: The Levin-Gad,</em></a> was published in August 2018. (The other four works in the bridging sequence will be published during late winter and spring of 2019.)</p> <p>To make it easier for people to decide whether they're interested in nominating the <em>Tale of the Five</em> for the 2019 Best Series award, all the nominatable (...'nominable?' whatever...) works are available at a deep discount (75% off) <a href="https://ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com/collections/tales-of-the-five-hugo-nomination-eligibility-collection">at our store at Ebooks Direct.</a> (The trilogy is also available at Amazon, but not discounted. The first bridging novella is available exclusively at Ebooks Direct, and while it will become available at Amazon when the other four are complete, by then nominations will have closed.) The discount will last until Hugo nominations close on March 15th at 11:59 (US) PST.</p> <p>...So there you go. Many thanks in advance for your interest and/or award consideration!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news-item" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">news item</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/hugo-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hugo</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/hugo-award" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hugo Award</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/hugo-eligibility" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hugo eligibility</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/tale-five-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Tale of the Five</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/middle-kingdoms" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Middle Kingdoms</a></div></div></div> Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:45:11 +0000 DDCom Admin 464 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/hugo-award-nomination-eligibility-tale-of-the-five-series-middle-kingdoms#comments Dublin 2019: Guest of Honour at the First Irish Worldcon http://dianeduane.com/blog/2018/08/30/dublin-2019-guest-honour-first-irish-worldcon <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/field/image/dcc3lo-1920x1277_0.jpg?itok=J9aPstao"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/field/image/dcc3lo-1920x1277_0.jpg?itok=J9aPstao" width="1000" height="665" alt="The Dublin Convention Centre, core venue for Dublin 2019" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>I’m ridiculously happy to let everybody know that I’ve been chosen to be one of the Guests of Honour at the 2019 World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland.</p> <p>To say that I’m blown away by this—and have been for some months while I sat tight on the news—would be badly understating the case. To be the recipient of an honor that's been bestowed on some of the people who've mattered deeply in my life as an SF fan and a writer is simply mind-boggling. To be asked to fill such a position, not just at a Worldcon based for the very first time in the land of saints and scholars and Nobel laureates for literature, a country known around the world for its love of the written and spoken word, but also on my own home ground… is an Amazing thing. Fantastic, even. …And I’m <em>really enjoying it!</em> So my thanks and gratitude go first to the convention committee, and all the people involved in putting me in this unexpected and extraordinary position.</p> <p>I’ve participated in a fair number of Worldcons in my time, but even at this end of time it’s obvious to me that (from my point of view anyway) this one’s going to blow them all out of the water. Naturally it’s going to be personally satisfying to take part in the events that routinely come with fulfilling a GoH’s responsibilities. And I seriously look forward to getting to know my fellow Guests of Honour, among whom it’s a privilege to be numbered. But what’s going to make this event <em>most</em> special for me is the opportunity to meet and hang out with the many, many people who’ll come to Dublin for the convention, and who’ll partake along the way of the inimitable, hospitable Irish buzz that I firmly believe will make this Worldcon uniquely memorable for <em>everybody.</em></p> <p>People who know me online, or in what we laughably think of as Real Life, will know I’ll have a fair bit more to say about this in the days and weeks to come. In the meantime, though, let me just say <em>Thank you</em> again! And I’m looking forward to seeing as many of you as can possibly make it to Dublin in August of 2019.</p> <p>Now to start stockpiling my share of those hundred thousands of welcomes we keep ready for visitors to Ireland. Let's see: a hundred thousand per visitor, times... what? Five thousand? Six? More?</p> <p>I look forward to refining my numbers. :)</p> <p><a href="http://dianeduane.com/outofambit/2019/08/02/dds-dublin-2019-worldcon-schedule/" target="_blank">ETA: My schedule for the convention has been posted here at Out of Ambit. </a></p> <hr /><p>The Dublin 2019 web page: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.dublin2019.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1502610926881000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFPEOl7KxPg46Y3cyI9AMqqYcTVyA" href="http://www.dublin2019.com" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.dublin2019.com</a></p> <p>Dublin 2019 at Facebook:  <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.facebook.com/dublin2019&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1502610926881000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGFrJPnEPiLfkSSsMqUDa3oOBdm1g" href="http://www.facebook.com/dublin2019" rel="noopener" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/dublin2019</a></p> <p>At Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Dublin2019">@dublin2019</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Dublin2019&amp;src=tyah">#Dublin2019</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news-item" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">news item</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/ireland" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ireland</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/dublin-2019" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Dublin 2019</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">news</a></div></div></div> Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:05:35 +0000 DDCom Admin 364 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/blog/2018/08/30/dublin-2019-guest-honour-first-irish-worldcon#comments Site update http://dianeduane.com/blog/2018/04/02/site-update <div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/portfolio/Outer%20Limits%20Vol%203_0.jpg?itok=-7kSw6tR"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/portfolio/Outer%20Limits%20Vol%203_0.jpg?itok=-7kSw6tR" width="800" height="600" alt="Warning triangles" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h2>  </h2> <h2 class="rtecenter"> <b>We're updating our site</b></h2> <p>You've arrived while we're in the process of giving the main DianeDuane.com site a makeover.</p> <p>Over this month a lot of new features are going to be added to make it easier for our visitors to get around and find what they want...so do stop in every now and then to see how the construction's coming.</p> <p>Please note that some pages that existed in the old website's structure may not be valid any more, as (in the case of outdated material) they've been removed, or (for newer/current material) they've been combined with other resources or relocated. We've placed a search box on the 404 page to help you find what you were looking for more easily.</p> <p>Meantime, thanks for your interest, and welcome again!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/dublin-2019" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Dublin 2019</a></div><div class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/schedule" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">schedule</a></div><div class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/site-update" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">site update</a></div></div></div> Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:24:39 +0000 DDCom Admin 421 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/blog/2018/04/02/site-update#comments The Big Meow http://dianeduane.com/feline-wizardry-3-the-big-meow <div class="field field-name-field-sub-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Feline Wizardry book 3</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-related-service field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Related Service:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/service/fantasy">Fantasy</a>, <a href="/service/young-wizards">Young Wizards</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-item-images field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/portfolio/FW3-TBM%20Final%20B%20BG%20Adjusted%202400x1800.jpg" title="Feline Wizardry 3: The Big Meow" class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="gallery-node-359-field_item_images-qu6dDdoaZ8E" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;Feline Wizardry 3: The Big Meow&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;Feline Wizardry 3: The Big Meow&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/portfolio/FW3-TBM%20Final%20B%20BG%20Adjusted%202400x1800.jpg?itok=q9yVitoi" width="750" height="1000" alt="Feline Wizardry 3: The Big Meow" title="Feline Wizardry 3: The Big Meow" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Life's already too busy for the little black wizard-cat Rhiow and the other cats of the New York City worldgating maintenance teams. The old, cramped Penn Station is being torn apart and relocated into its big new building, which means that the Penn worldgates have had to be moved too. Everyone's nerves are in shreds, and no one's had enough sleep for a human, let alone a Person. So when Rhiow goes staggering home to her litterbox the morning after the job's done and finds it already occupied by another cat -- who then vanishes -- at first she thinks she's hallucinating.</p> <p> But she's not. When her team is called to Los Angeles to do a minor consult after the city's single worldgate is deranged by a string of earthquakes, Rhiow's "hallucination" reappears bearing a dire message from the past. The messenger, a tom called Hwaith, reveals that similar earthquakes are striking Los Angeles in 1946 -- indicators not only of increasing instability in the San Andreas Fault, but of something far more troubling. Something is trying to subvert the Los Angeles gate to its own purposes. "The Lone Power?" Rhiow asks. "No," Hwaith says. "Something worse. Something from <i>outside.</i>"</p> <p> Rhiow and her team find themselves caught up in ever-deepening peril and mystery as they make the dangerous trip back to post-war Los Angeles. Their intervention plunges them headfirst into the glitzy, murky world of 1946 Hollywood, a smoggy film-noir landscape filled with glamourous starlets, flamboyantly corrupt studio heads, wicked, pampered cats with hidden agendas, unsolved murders, snoopy screenwriters, scheming PR flacks, and a shadowy, celebrity-ridden cult dabbling in knowledge better left alone -- knowledge which could destroy their world's present and doom its future, if the dreadful promise of the Year of the Black Jaguar is fulfilled...</p> <p> <em>The Big Meow</em> completes the "Feline Wizards" sequence begun in <em>The Book of Night with Moon</em> and its sequel <em>To Visit The Quee</em>n (published in the UK as <em>On Her Majesty's Wizardly Service</em>). We plan to publish ebook editions of these books at Ebooks Direct in 2018, pending the availability of rights.</p> <p> <strong>Please note</strong>: if you're a subscriber to the original <em>Big Meow</em> subscription project, please use <strong><a href="http://eepurl.com/c5NMtr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this link</a></strong> to add your contact data to our MailChimp contact list. We're in the process of reaching out to all original subscribers to make sure they've received all their subscription materials. Thanks in advance for your help!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-portfoliotags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/young-wizards" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Young Wizards</a></div></div></div> Wed, 04 Oct 2017 15:34:10 +0000 DDCom Admin 359 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/feline-wizardry-3-the-big-meow#comments Interim Errantry: On Ordeal http://dianeduane.com/interim-errantry-2-on-ordeal <div class="field field-name-field-sub-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The second major collection of Young Wizards interstitial fiction</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-related-service field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Related Service:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/service/fantasy">Fantasy</a>, <a href="/service/young-wizards">Young Wizards</a>, <a href="/service/novels">Novels</a>, <a href="/service/short-fiction">Short fiction</a>, <a href="/service/young-adult">Young Adult</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-item-images field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/portfolio/IE2%20On%20Ordeal%20Trio%20Cover%20Final%20With%20Top%20Shading%20Longer%20Version.png" title="Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal" class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="gallery-node-365-field_item_images-qu6dDdoaZ8E" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/portfolio/IE2%20On%20Ordeal%20Trio%20Cover%20Final%20With%20Top%20Shading%20Longer%20Version.png?itok=O7p4aJts" width="667" height="1000" alt="Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal" title="Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>A wizard's Ordeal is intensely personal, and sometimes (though not always) intensely dangerous. Each Ordeal is tailored to the wizard who may pass it, or fail to pass. Each induction is in some way diagnostic of the innermost nature of the wizard who embraces the challenge offered them by the Powers that Be.</p> <p> <i>On Ordeal</i> tells the unique tales of the wizardly initiations of three notable wizards of the Young Wizards universe -- Roshaun ke Nelaid, Mamvish fsh Wimsih, and Ronan Nolan Jnr. Watch as a disaffected alien prince, a lizard who wants to become a wizard (by eating one if necessary), and an ironically emo kid from the Dublin suburbs get to grips, up close and personal, with the Powers that Be... and come into the kind of power only those on errantry can dream of.</p> <p> Among them, these three epic tales of three very different introductions to the world of wizardry comprise more than 125,000 words of new, canonical Young Wizards material. Want a copy? Use the ADD TO CART button in the top right column. <a href="https://ebooks.direct/collections/interim-errantry-2-on-ordeal/products/interim-errantry-2-on-ordeal-1" target="_blank">Or <strong>click here. </strong></a></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-portfoliotags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/young-wizards" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Young Wizards</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/interim-errantry" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Interim Errantry</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/ordeal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">On Ordeal</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/novels" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">novels</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/short-novels" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">short novels</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/interstitials" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">interstitials</a></div></div></div> Sun, 25 Jun 2017 14:01:31 +0000 DDCom Admin 365 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/interim-errantry-2-on-ordeal#comments "5Q -- highest rating" http://dianeduane.com/5q-highest-rating <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>“The strong characterization, complex plot, and truly fascinating universe combined with a stellar, heartbreaking, nail-biting conclusion guarantee not to disappoint.”<em> (Wizards at War)</em></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Image:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/customers/Voya_logo.jpg" width="1200" height="452" alt="Voya Magazine" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-customer-name field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Customer Name:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">VOYA Magazine</div></div></div> Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:39:28 +0000 DDCom Admin 356 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/5q-highest-rating#comments "Intelligent and exhilarating adventure" http://dianeduane.com/intelligent-and-exhilarating-adventure <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>"Expands the limits of the genre... Exciting and magical." <em>(The Door Into Fire)</em></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Image:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/customers/PW_logo.jpg" width="441" height="142" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-customer-name field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Customer Name:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Publishers Weekly</div></div></div> Sat, 14 Jan 2017 12:53:01 +0000 DDCom Admin 355 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/intelligent-and-exhilarating-adventure#comments On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr http://dianeduane.com/on-ordeal-ronan-nolan-jnr <div class="field field-name-field-sub-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Third in the Interim Errantry: On Ordeal trilogy</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-related-service field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Related Service:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/service/fantasy">Fantasy</a>, <a href="/service/young-wizards">Young Wizards</a>, <a href="/service/young-adult">Young Adult</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-item-images field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/portfolio/On%20Ordeal%20Ronan%20Nolan%20Semifinal%202400x1600%20wih%20hand%20SFX_1.jpg" title="On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr" class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="gallery-node-402-field_item_images-qu6dDdoaZ8E" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/portfolio/On%20Ordeal%20Ronan%20Nolan%20Semifinal%202400x1600%20wih%20hand%20SFX_1.jpg?itok=Y1h4G5x3" width="512" height="768" alt="On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr" title="On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Once upon a time there was a kid who lived in the Dublin suburbs and never once even considered believing in wizards... until he found he could <em>be</em> one.</p> <p>Ronan had always felt himself both the odd man out, the guy nobody really got, the one who couldn't figure out where he fit in -- <i>and</i> the one who didn't stand out, who got lost in the crowd, who was never going to be anything unusual... just one more also-ran in a world that just seemed to be getting worse all the time. He was slowly starting to feel as if there wasn't any particular point in life, because <em>he</em> was never going to make that much of a difference to anyone or anything.</p> <p>Then Life took an interest.</p> <p>Without warning Ronan Nolan Junior was about to find himself the crux of an argument between forces older than Earth itself... and the recipient of an unfolding challenge that would change many more worlds than just one.</p> <blockquote><p><em>You handed him the Oath just like that? Seriously?</em></p> <p><em>Just like that.</em></p> <p>A suspicious pause. <em>A little rushed, wouldn’t you say? Not going to get the best response out of him under these circumstances.</em></p> <p><em>Now there’s something I wouldn’t imagine you caring about one way or the other! One more failed wizard? I’d think that’s a positive result for you.</em></p> <p><em>You know… I’m starting to wonder why you’re so interested in my reactions, one way or the other.</em></p> <p><em>Oh?</em></p> <p><em>Yes. In fact I don’t imagine we’ve had this long a chat about anything for…</em></p> <p><em>You’re going to try to do this in local time periods, are you? This should be fun. …Then again, you were always big on trivia.</em></p> <p><em>…Years, it would be here, wouldn’t it? Quite a lot of them. I have a vague memory that something very large sinking into the sea would have been involved. What was its name again?</em></p> <p>A slightly pained pause. <em>There would have been quite a few.</em></p> <p><em>Afállonë, yes, that was one. Atalantë, the Downfallen Land. Atlantis…</em> And a pause not at all pained, but entirely too darkly pleased. <em>Death by water; so inevitable, one way or another. Such a lovely symmetry, when life here arose from it.</em></p> <p>A sigh. <em>Your point being?</em></p> <p><em>Well, if you’re in such a hurry, then you won’t mind </em>me<em> rushing things a little.</em></p> <p>A concerned pause. <em>Wait. You don’t mean to—</em></p> <p><em>Yes I do.</em></p> <p><em>...In the first twenty-four </em>hours?</p> <p><em>Why not? Let’s see if he’s as good as you think he is. If not—</em> And what follows, rippling many surrounding dimensions with subspace-deep unease, is what even human beings would recognize as a shrug. <em>What’s the problem? You can always make another.</em></p> <p>And to the speaker's considerable surprise, to this there is no response.</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-portfoliotags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/young-wizards" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Young Wizards</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/interim-errantry" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Interim Errantry</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/ordeal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">On Ordeal</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/novels" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">novels</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/short-novels" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">short novels</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/interstitials" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">interstitials</a></div></div></div> Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:09:46 +0000 DDCom Admin 402 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/on-ordeal-ronan-nolan-jnr#comments On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih http://dianeduane.com/on-ordeal-mamvish-fsh-wimsih <div class="field field-name-field-sub-title field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Second of the Interim Errantry: On Ordeal series</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-related-service field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Related Service:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/service/novels">Novels</a>, <a href="/service/fantasy">Fantasy</a>, <a href="/service/young-wizards">Young Wizards</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-item-images field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/portfolio/IE2_OO_Mamvish_Cover_1600x2400_2.jpg" title="On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih" class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="gallery-node-279-field_item_images-qu6dDdoaZ8E" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" src="http://dianeduane.com/sites/default/files/styles/large_retina/public/portfolio/IE2_OO_Mamvish_Cover_1600x2400_2.jpg?itok=C9ApjNyx" width="667" height="1000" alt="On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih" title="On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Once upon a time there was a lizard who wanted to be a wizard. (Eventually…)</p> <p>Newborn child of a saurian species trapped by its own Choice on a world that the Lone Power has cruelly punished for rejecting It, Vish may just be a hatchling, but she knows that the world is badly broken and needs to be put right. To make this happen she begins a quest that will crisscross her huge, bleak planet and finally bring her face to face with the powers that rule her world.</p> <div style="margin: 20px 40px 20px 40px; padding: 20px; background-color: #eeeeee;"> <p>As Vish lay by a great boulder at the edge of a rocky plain some days away from Ashmesh’s old lair, the Clever One said to her, <em>It would seem to me that what you should do now is seek out wizards.</em></p> <p>She stretched and yawned, and then lay still again, for she was just beginning to get past the satiety that had come of doing right by Ashmesh, and it was in her mind that another of the flying predators would taste good about now. “And what might wizards be?”</p> <p><em>They are Tauwff with power,</em> Ashmesh said. <em>I once did justice to a wise one from the eastern stonehills who had eaten a wizard. He said that her mind had been full of astonishing things, as well as a strange language that no one had ever heard; and she used it to speak to stones and moss and water and air, and even the very sky.</em></p> <p>“That doesn’t seem like much use,” Vish said. “I can speak to those whenever I please.”</p> <p><em>But the wizard could hear them speak back,</em> said Ashmesh, <em>so the wise one of the Stonehills told me. And the dead things of the world would obey the wizard’s commands, after she had spoken to them a while.</em></p> <p>“That might be of more use,” Vish said.</p> <p><em>The most interesting thing,</em> however, said Ashmesh, <em>was that all wizards, apparently, come to meet the One who made the Doom and laid it on the world. They face that One in combat, and best It if they can.</em></p> <p>“And how do they best it,” Vish said, unimpressed, “if the world is still as it is?”</p> <p><em>The wise one couldn’t tell me,</em> Ashmesh said. <em>And the wizard he had eaten would only laugh at him, and would not tell him more.</em></p> <p>“That seems rude,” Vish said. “Well, it seems that I must, as you say, seek out wizards. I will make them young within me, and they will tell me their secrets of how to meet the One who Made the Doom and discover how it may be unmade.”</p> <p><em>That may not be enough,</em> said Ashmesh, <em>if the ones you make young are as stubborn as the one the Wise Tauwff of the Stonehills ate.</em></p> <p>“If things turn out that way,” Vish said, “then maybe what’s needed is for me to become a wizard. If one wants to be a wizard, what does one do?”</p> <p><em>The Wise One could never tell me that,</em> said Ashmesh, <em>nor could anyone else I’ve ever eaten.</em></p> <p>Vish scowled in annoyance. “Then I will have to find out,” she said.</p> </div> <p>And as for the Power Vish will <i>not</i> meet… the tale of how that happened (or did not) is here revealed.</p> <p><a href="http://ebooksdirect.co/collections/frontpage/products/on-ordeal-mamvish-fsh-wimsih" target="_blank"><strong><i>On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih</i></strong></a> is a 30,000-word canonical work in the Young Wizards universe. It is also the second of three tales of the wizardly Ordeals of major characters in the series — each one unique (as is every Ordeal), each one revealing something unique about the person who undergoes it and comes out on the other side of the experience in possession of that singular gift that can be conferred only by the Powers that Be: wizardry.</p> <p><a href="http://ebooksdirect.co/collections/frontpage/products/on-ordeal-mamvish-fsh-wimsih" target="_blank"><strong><i>On Ordeal: Mamvish fsh Wimsih</i></strong></a> is available DRM-free in multiple formats tailored to your preferred e-reader from <a href="http://ebooksdirect.co" target="_blank">Ebooks Direct.</a></p> <p></p><center><br />  </center> <p>Caution: contains culturally consensual* cannibalism.</p> <p>*Mostly.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-portfoliotags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/novels" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">novels</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/interstitials" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">interstitials</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/young-wizards" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Young Wizards</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/interim-errantry" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Interim Errantry</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/ordeal" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">On Ordeal</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/news-item" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">news item</a></div></div></div> Sat, 17 Dec 2016 17:18:19 +0000 DDCom Admin 279 at http://dianeduane.com http://dianeduane.com/on-ordeal-mamvish-fsh-wimsih#comments
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