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Illustrations and Excerpts from The Moon Coin
Posted in Artwork, The Moon Coin, The Moon Realm, tagged art, artwork, award, award winning, children, excerpt, fantasy, illustrated, illustration, kidlit, kids, Kindle, mg, middle grade, quote, Series, ya on December 25, 2013| 1 Comment »
Illustrations and excerpts from the
The Moon Coin.
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From Chapter One
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From Chapter Two
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From Chapter Three
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From Chapter Four
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From Chapter Five
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From Chapter Six
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From Chapter Seven
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From Chapter Eight
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From Chapter Nine
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From Chapter Ten
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From Chapter Eleven
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From Chapter Twelve
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From Chapter Thirteen
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From Chapter Fourteen
From Chapter Fifteen
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From Chapter Sixteen
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From Chapter Seventeen
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From Chapter Eighteen
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From Chapter Nineteen
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From Chapter Twenty
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Interview with Bill Watterson
Posted in The Moon Coin on October 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Gaithersburg Book Festival
Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged Gaithersburg Book Festival on May 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Gaithersburg Book Festival
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Not the best weather, but we stayed dry, gained some new fans, and met some great book people.
Somehow, I failed to get my camera bag in the car. Maybe it was the 5am wake-up time. Snapped this one from my mobile.
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Midwest Book Review
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 »
“The Moon Coin is a fine and adventurous read for young adults,
highly recommended.”—Midwest Book Review
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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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The Moon Coin
Book One / A Moon Realm Novel
Now available in paperback and eBook.
.. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes iBookstore, and Second Looks Books...
Two chapters formatted for ePub, Mobi, or PDF.
Please share these files with your friends. Enjoy.
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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™
Oscar Knows Things
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?
ColorPage Testimonial
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 »
ColorPage, the amazing printer I use for all the Moon Realm books, asked me to do a testimonial for their website. Here it is:
Click HERE to read it in full.
Notes from my Coat-of-Many-Pockets
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 »
Notes from my Coat-of-Many-Pockets
You didn’t think Ebb was the only one with such a coat, did you?
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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. : (
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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: https://themoonrealm.com/tmremaillist/
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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/
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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.
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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. 😉
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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.
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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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The Clock, She’s a Ticking!
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:
The Importance of GoodReads
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!!!
THE DRAGONDAIN: Unleashed!
Posted in The Moon Coin, tagged "Game of Thrones", "The Chronicles of Narnia", Narnia, 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!
Book Two / A Moon Realm Novel
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The tale continues . . .
The Chronicles of Narnia meets Game of Thrones
Precocious reader to adult: 304 paperback pages, 85,000 words, full-color illustrations. Book two of the Moon Realm series.
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Gold Medal Winning Series of the Moonbeam Children’s Book Award.
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Two chapters formatted for ePub, Mobi, or PDF.
Please share these files with your friends. Enjoy.
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The Dragondain
Now available in paperback and ebook.
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes iBookstore.
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Paperback Edition
On Sale at Amazon
Click HERE.
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The Moon Coin
Book One / A Moon Realm Novel
Now available in paperback and eBook.
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Amazon, Second Looks Books, and Back to the Books.
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Paperback Edition
On Sale at Amazon
Click HERE.
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Available for E-Readers:
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes iBookstore
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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®
THE DRAGONDAIN Print Edition has Launched!
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.
Book Two / A Moon Realm Novel
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The tale continues . . .
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Two chapters formatted for ePub, Mobi, or PDF.
Please share these files with your friends. Enjoy.
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The Dragondain
Book Two / A Moon Realm Novel
Now available in paperback and ebook.
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes iBookstore, and Second Looks Books.
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The Moon Coin
Book One / A Moon Realm Novel
Now available in paperback and eBook...
Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes iBookstore, and Second Looks Books.
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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®