Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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Click HERE for an article on the festival by Gazzette.net.
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20,000 attendees expected! I’ll be signing copies of The Moon Coin and The Dragondain (free book poster for anyone getting a book), and handing postcards, etc. And the chocolate gold coins have shipped from Texas! So we should have those on hand too.
Posted in Reviews, The Dragondain, The Moon Realm, tagged fiction books, The Dragondain on March 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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“The magic is more mesmerising, the adventures more alluring, the
building sense of intrigue and danger more tantalising and evocative.”
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Click HERE or the image above for the review.
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Posted in Reviews, The Moon Coin, tagged Carolyn Arcabascio, Midwest Book Review, Richard Due, The Midwest Book Review, The Moon Coin on March 14, 2013 | 2 Comments »
This just in from the Midwest Book Review:
A good story almost comes alive in our imagination, and it may do just that. “The Moon Coin” begins Richard Due’s Moon Realm series, following young Lily and Jasper, who learn much about the place from their uncle. But when he goes missing, the kids will learn there was more to his stories than just stories, and the secrets behind them will prove dangerous as they are enticing. “The Moon Coin” is a fine and adventurous read for young adults, highly recommended.
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Copyright © 2011 by Richard Due. All rights reserved. Gibbering Gnome Press,
A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™ The Moon Realm™
Posted in Artwork, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged birdfish, electrimals, Oscar Knows Things on February 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Tales, unlike stories, never lie. You see, a tale is an account of things in their due order, often divulged secretly, or as gossip. Would you like to hear one?—Lord Autumn
Carefully concealed within the nocturnal tales of Lily and Jasper Winter’s youth are hidden secrets only a child could believe. And believe they did. But now, as young teens, their Uncle Ebb’s disappearance has left many more questions than answers. Had he meant for them to discover the Moon Coin? Did he need them in the Moon Realm? Was it really possible that, by telling his tales, he’d actually been preparing them for the adventure of a lifetime?
Posted in Gibbering Gnome Press, a Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged ColorPage, French Flaps, Richard Due, The Moon Coin on February 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Click HERE to read it in full.
Posted in Second Looks Books, The Moon Coin, tagged books, Coat of Many Pockets, Gibbering Gnome Press, librarians, pocket Rinn, The Moon Realm on February 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
You didn’t think Ebb was the only one with such a coat, did you?
Jessi, from Maryland, sent in this pick of her pocket-Rinn.
She sent this message with it: This is Blooregard Q. Kazoo, commonly called Bloo. He just wants to read this pretty book with the similarly majestic kitty on the front of it, OK? But he doesn’t have opposable thumbs. : (
Gibbering Gnome Press has been thrilled with the response to their ebook giveaway for THE MOON COIN. We thought it would take four weeks to get 50 takers. We got 40 in the first week! If the next 10 go before this weekend is out, Gibbering Gnome Press is prepared double the number of ebook versions they’re giving away. That’s right, they’ll give away as many as 100 ebook copies! Also, in addition to the Kindle and Nook versions, there are now a limited number of iTunes iBookstore versions available. So don’t forget to mention that if you want an iBookstore version. Please Share this Post. 
Here’s the original offer:
In an effort to build up our email list, Gibbering Gnome Press is giving away 50 free e-books of The Moon Coin, the first book in the award-winning Moon Realm series, to the first fifty people who join our email list. Please specify if you’d like to receive a Kindle or Nook version in your email.
You will receive your gift link on February 18th.
Details here: http://themoonrealm.com/tmremaillist/
There are some images in this film that come freaky close to the Moon Realm. If you want to see what it looks like to have one world hanging over another, or what a crossover might look like, then check it out! (As you already know, if you’ve read the books, the way gravity works in this film is VERY different than in the Moon Realm.)
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/upsidedown/
Gibbering Gnome Press just made it a whole lot easier for librarians (public & school) to order MOON REALM novels. For details click HERE. There’s even a handy, printable Order From. So if your local library is lacking in the Moon Realm department, print out a copy of the PDF and take it down to your local library and tell them you’re dying to read the print edition. Which is quite lovely, btw. You can catch a glimpse of it HERE.
If you’re a GoodReads member (What’s GoodReads? Imagine if facebook was filled with readers and authors and all they wanted to do was talk about great books!), and you enjoy middle-grade books (Harry Potter, The Hobbit, Percy Jackson, etc.), or shop for a middle-grader who does, check out the Group Great Middle Grade Reads. And while you’re there, don’t forget to give the Moon Realm books a vote on their Listopia List, which you can get to that list by clicking HERE. 
We’re gathering quotes from THE DRAGONDAIN to include on five new Second Looks Books bookmarks. If you have any favs, please shout them out. (We may just use one of them!)
Here are the five quotes we used on last year’s booksmarks. They’re all taken from THE MOON COIN:
“But—” yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”
“Some people are just sad when there aren’t talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter
“You won’t find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn
“Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb
Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled. Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.
Gibbering Gnome Press has posted two GoodReads giveaways for signed and numbered, limited edition paperbacks of the first two books in the Moon Realm. You can enter to win through the links below.
Click HERE for The Moon Coin.
Click HERE for The Dragondain.
Lastly, for those of you who are wondering, I’m editing third book in the Moon Realm series, The Murk, as fast as I’m able. I’ve been handing off the first few chapters with my primary editor these last few weeks, and she’s been saying nice things about it. And she hasn’t read chapter 3 yet, which was great fun to write. I can’t wait to hear what she thinks of it. I’ll say only one word about it: Faerathil. 
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Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged "Deep Creek Lake", Editing, The Moon Realm, The Murk on January 19, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I’m thick in the race to publish book three, The Murk, on time. I’m editing every day now. My primary job is to keep a steady stream of pages flowing to my editor. Chapter two feels like it’s just a few days away from being ready (eight passes so far, the last two on paper). Meanwhile, I’m still making my first pass on the book’s closing chapters! I’m so far behind! Making the Fall pub date is going to be a challenge!
Today, thankfully, has been one of magical editing days where not only do I have lots of time (so rare), but things are falling into place left and right (rarer still)!
So, while my wife and children race down the sloops like the ski bunnies they are, I’ve holed up at Trader’s Coffee.
This picture was taken directly across the street from the coffee shop. If you’ve never been to Deep Creek Lake, MD, in the winter: yes! the water really is that blue!
I’ve got a decaf latte, a warmed palmier, a printout of chapter two, and four very sharp dixon ticonderogas at my side. Now, to work!
Day two. On the way to Trader’s Coffee House, I pulled over and snapped this shot below.
And here’s the original shot I pulled this detail from:
Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged 99 cents, award, award winning, books, Moonbeam, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, sale, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm on January 8, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
For a limited time, the first book in the award-winning
Moon Realm Series is going on sale! Please spread the news!
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Copyright © 2011 by Richard Due. All rights reserved. Gibbering Gnome Press,
A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™ The Moon Realm™
Posted in The Dragondain, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged autographed, books, Free, giveaway, GoodReads, signed, The Dragondain, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm on January 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged GoodReads, Shelf, Shelves, The Moon Coin on December 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If you love reading books, or talking about books, or connecting with other readers or authors, you might want to check out GoodReads. Who knows, you just might find your next good read there.
If you’re an author, one of the indicators of how well your book is doing on GoodReads is by checking how many people have put your book on their “shelf.” It’s not a real shelf, and it doesn’t guarantee that the person will actually read your book. But it does show that they’re interested, and that you might be in their reading queue.
Here’s a graph of The Moon Coin’s shelf adoption from the publication of the ebook, through the publication of the paperback, and ending today.
That dramatic rise in the middle directly corresponds to when the paperback edition was released.
It took The Moon Coin twelve-and-a-half months to reach 1,000 shelves. It’s currently on track to surpass 2,000 shelves in just three months.
To everyone who put my book on their shelf: THANK YOU!!!
Posted in The Moon Realm, tagged pocket Rinn, Rinn, The Moon Realm on December 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
(if you want to add to the gallery, send me a pic along with the name, State and/or Country of origin, to here)
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This Pocket Rinn is my daughter’s cat: Simpkin. She’s reclining
on 1,000 copies of THE DRAGONDAIN.
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This is Preciosa the jaguar. She lives in Peru. She REALLY wants to read The Moon Coin!
Preciosa is a tad larger than your average pocket Rinn. I can’t tell from the pic how many pounds she weighs, but I’m guessing she’s still smaller than a real Rinn cub, and so I decided to include her. Besides, how many North American authors get to post pics of a jaguar pawing at their book?
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This is Larissa’a Pocket Rinn, Max! He prowls the jungles of Oregon, USA.
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This Pocket Rinn’s name is Moppet, sister to Simpkin. She was supposed to be given away while just a mere pocket cub, but, by some inexplicable process, she wheedled her way into staying.
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Jessi, from Maryland, sent in this pick of her pocket-Rinn.
She sent this message with it: This is Blooregard Q. Kazoo, commonly called Bloo. He just wants to read this pretty book with the similarly majestic kitty on the front of it, OK? But he doesn’t have opposable thumbs. : (
Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged paperback, Richard Due, sale, The Dragondain, The Moon Realm on December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Gibbering Gnome Press has paperback copies of THE DRAGONDAIN in stock!
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Copyright © 2011 by Richard Due. All rights reserved. Gibbering Gnome Press,
A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™ The Moon Realm™
Posted in The Dragondain, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged adventure, fantasy, middle grade, print edtion, Series, The Dragondain, Tween on November 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“Tales, unlike stories, never lie. You see, a tale is an account of
things in their due order, often divulged secretly, or as gossip.
Would you like to hear one?” —Lord Autumn
It’s the middle of the night, you need to send your brother to the Moon Realm, and he won’t wake up. So you improvise. . . .
When a confused Jasper awakes, he’s convinced he’s dreaming. But by the time he meets Greydor, Jasper understands that this is no dream. In fact, persuading the King of the Rinn to work with the men of Dain to defeat their common enemy is a nightmare. Then there’s the other side of the coin: convincing Tavin and Dubb that saddling a Rinn isn’t certain death. (“It’ll be fun!”) And perhaps even a greater worry: can he make friends with Dubb’s daughter Darce before she punches his lights out?
Lily has problems, too. There’s a little mousie scratching in her closet. Or at least, it sounds like a little mousie. Oh, and her second confrontation with Curse, and trying to form her first peerin. (Don’t you have to be from Dain to do that?) And where’s Ebb?
One thing’s for sure: now that Lily and Jasper have entered the Moon Realm, nothing can ever be the same again.
Illustrated by Carolyn Arcabascio. Book Two in the award winning Moon Realm Series.
For a Two Chapter Preview: click HERE.
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Copyright © 2011 by Richard Due. All rights reserved. Gibbering Gnome Press,
A Division of Ingenious Inventions Run Amok, Ink™ The Moon Realm™
Posted in The Dragondain, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged Barnes & Noble, Distributors, The Moon Coin, Wholesalers on November 16, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It came in the mail yesterday. A snail mail letter from Barnes & Noble, postmarked New York. My wife opened it. She scanned it. “They don’t want your book,” she said. [insert explosions, screams, and that little light that came out of Sirius Black's mouth shooting out like a bullet from mine] Okay. It wasn’t that bad. Honestly, it had been the answer I’d been expecting all along. I’m a small publisher of two books, both by me.
Then, she said, “Wait, I skimmed over this first part.” She read it aloud: “Thank you for sending us THE MOON COIN. We welcome the opportunity to review books of all types from publishers large and small. After a careful review, the buyer for the category has decided to place an order for approximately 10 copies on THE MOON COIN.”
Then I read it. Ten times. I read it ten times because I was certain that on the next reading it would say something else.
But . . . it didn’t. It’s been a whole day. I’m still in shock.
The one big hitch is that B&N wants me to get my book into a distributor or wholesaler (there’s a difference?), before they’ll order the copies. I’ve been thinking about distributors for awhile now. I even went the the Self-Publishing Book Expo in New York last month, mostly to go to a workshop on distributors. What did I learn? There’s no way I can swing a distributor for THE MOON COIN or the upcoming THE DRAGONDAIN. My unit price is just too high. 22 full-color illustrations can do that to a book, you know. I stopped crunching the numbers after I got to the point where I was losing several dollars on each book (and I just knew there were more fees). Distributors want exclusives, which means I’d have to pull the book out of my own bookstore (and all the independents that are currently selling it). Distributors want a hefty cut of ebook sales. It’s endless.
I was despair incarnate.
Then I flipped over the list of distributors B&N had sent me. A list of wholesalers, huh? What are those?
I googled them. Wholesalers don’t ask for exclusivity. Wholesalers don’t ask for a cut of ebook sales. Wholesalers don’t ask for as big of a cut.
I said all right.
Our bookstore even had an account with one of the wholesalers on the list!
I submitted the book to them today. If they give me the thumbs up, THE MOON COIN is headed to a Barnes & Noble (and thousands of independent bookshops) near you. If they give me the thumbs down . . . all is lost and I sink into a pit of despair deeper than tar is black. Stay tuned.
Here’s the actual letter:
Posted in Reviews, The Dragondain, The Moon Realm, tagged "The Howling Turtle", The Dragondain on November 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged adventure, Anything Goes, award, awards, Brilliant Books, Carolyn Arcabascio, fantasy, GoodReads, Horizon Books, literary, Moonbeam, Moonbeam Award, Moonbeam Awards, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Richard Due, scavenger hunt, Series, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, Traverse City Children's Book Festival on November 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I just got back from a trip to Traverse City, Michigan, where the Traverse City Children’s Book Festival was held in a beautiful old Opera House. It’s lovely town right on the shore of Lake Michigan, and the people there support not one, but two amazing independent bookshops: Horizon Books, and Brilliant Books. (You can get THE MOON COIN in Horizon Books now, btw, just sayin’.)
The Traverse City Children’s Book Festival. I’m in the lower right corner.
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I got to meet a lot of amazing authors at the festival, but for me the most exciting part was meeting the kids: you would have thought they were in a candy store!
Some of the winners on display in the Opera House. (I did NOT arrange these books!)
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After the festival, we packed up, got dressed up, and headed out to the top floor of the tallest building in town: the Park Place Hotel, where the Moonbeam Awards Ceremony was held.
I’m the dude on the far right. Jim Barnes, master of ceremonies, is in the center.
Link to the press release HERE.
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Lastly, I want to mention that the GoodReads Group, Anything Goes, has picked The Moon Coin as their December Book of the Month. Anything Goes is mostly comprised of UK members, but anyone is welcome to join. I’ve been in contact with Chris, a group moderator, and she’s given me permission to put together a little international contest. So get ready for a literary scavenger hunt (drawing off The Moon Coin). The winner will receive a signed, numbered, paperback copy (I will ship this anywhere I can (except to the moon Darwyth; if you’re on the moon Darwyth then you’re on your own; sorry). I’ll post the contest here at Anything Goes on the December the 1st. So if you like scavenger hunts, be on the lookout!
Posted in The Moon Realm, tagged Book Festival, Carolyn Arcabascio, Children's Book Festival, Moonbeam Award, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Richard Due, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, Traverse City Children's Book Festival on November 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll be at the festival, reading from The Moon Coin and signing books.
Dates & Location
10:00am to 4:00pm
The annual Traverse City Children’s Book Festival will be held Saturday , November 10, 2012 at:
City Opera House
106 East Front Street
Traverse City, MI 49684-2509
(231) 941-8082
Tickets & Admission
General attendance is free!
No tickets are required
Posted in The Dragondain, The Moon Realm, tagged bluelines, galleys, The Dragondain, The Moon Realm, Typesetting on October 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Here be the completed bluelines to the print edition of The Dragondain. I took this pic from Gibbering Gnome Press’s natural light studio (also known as my porch). I’ve burned the publication files to disc. Tomorrow, I’ll have another sample cover made—for correction verification—then it’s straight off to the printer. I’m really hoping this will be the only round of corrections, but I never really know until the boxes start appearing—like magic—in Gibbering Gnome Press’s loading dock (also known as my garage). For example, this time I had to change things around in the front matter to acknowledge that I’d won a Moonbeam award, which I still find hard to believe! Part of me thinks that if I see it in print, then maybe the news will get through my thick head and into my wee little brain. It’s so surreal. Maybe . . . maybe I’m in the Matrix! Now that seems much more likely. Yeah, that’s gotta be it: I’m in the Matrix! That explains SO much. I can’t wait to start dodging bullets in slow mo! Or run up walls and jump off buildings. Welp, off to go practice my new powers. Wish me luck!
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