Uptown Local and Other Interventions

[dianeduane]

So Uptown Local and Other Interventions is finally ready!

I've been wanting to collect a batch of favorite stories together for a while now, and an ebook seemed like the perfect way to go. (The paper version will follow later: we'll be converting this along with the new international ebook editions of the Young Wizards books.)

The anthology contains:

• In The Company of Heroes -- A billionaire "living the dream" goes on a desperate quest for the one thing he needs to make his life perfect: a very special comic book...


• The Rizzoli Bag -- A sad young man in a Roman cafe is offered a once-in-a-lifetime bargain...


• Out of the Frying Pan -- The life of a part-time witch working in a shopping mall is turned upside down in a day...


• The Queen and the Thief and the Dragon -- A (fairy) tale of the True West, and a young monarch's solution to a thorny diplomatic problem...


• Bears -- An ancient sorrow (with a modern twist) wanders through the tumult of a pre-Lenten street carnival...


• The Fix -- In the dark guts of Rome's Colosseum, a slave boy with an impossible dream becomes entangled in the machinations of immortals...


• Herself -- In the heart of Dublin, something is killing the People of the Hills -- and it's going to take Ireland's only superhero to stop it...


• Hopper Painting -- Desolation and redemption in a midnight diner...


• The Back Door -- Two terrorists meet in Zurich to carry out a very unusual heist with a confederate who's more dangerous than they imagine...

...And naturally the title story, which hasn't been in print since it appeared in the So You Want to Be a Wizard 20th anniversary hardcover: and the only other Young Wizards short story, Theobroma.

Uptown Local and Other Interventions is available for purchase in DRM-free Kindle / .mobi and Nook / iPad / .ePub formats here and (soon) at the DianeDuane.com online bookshop for USD $5.99.

If you're interested in grabbing a copy, click here for the sales page at DianeDuane.com. It's got the PayPal buttons.

BTW, this is important: If by chance you saw the tweet about the anthology last night and bought a copy then or early this morning, your copy is missing a vital page or two of the story "Herself". Please use the download link in your confirmation email to download another copy, as the missing material has been restored. We'll also be emailing all the affected purchasers new copies of the file as soon as we make a few other corrections to the text.

Comments

[atrypical.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Will this be in a paper copy at some point?

[agawa-jean.livejournal.com]

The paper version will follow later

Sounds like it!

[agawa-jean.livejournal.com]

Sorry, this is kind of a stupid question, but can you read ebooks on your computer? Or, more specifically, this ebook? I don't have an kind of e-reader, but if I get the time I'd still like to read it.

[atrypical.livejournal.com]

Whoops. Sorry, I'm still sleepy. :)

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I know you can get Kindle, Mobipocket, and EPub readers for most common OSs (since you don't specify, I'm guessing Windows? you can get them for Windows), and she says they're the unlocked form of those formats. Therefore: yes. I've used several EPub and Mobipocket readers on Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, and Android, and unlocked books do in fact work across multiple systems just fine.

In the absence of other constraints, pick EPub format (most modern one, widely supported).

[isfdb.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up - we'd have missed adding this automatically.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

De nada. :) You may also want to check the DianeDuane.com store and / or the Kindle Store for the new Young Wizards international editions. (Probably the Kindle store as they have B00-format Amazon id's.)

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Also, ePub format is really easy to read even without a specific e-reader. Just unzip it and look for files with names ending in .htm, .html or .xhtml, and open them in a web browser. OK, you'll lose the special formatting and navigation features but they aren't esential.

(That's non-DRM ePub format. DRM you may be pushed to find a reader. But D's current books are DRM-free and I think she intends to keep it that way.)

[isfdb.livejournal.com]

We don't work well with ASINs: e.g. you don't get the links to Amazon/Barnes& Noble/alibris/Abebooks etc pages unless there's an ISBN. There's no problem adding them of course, apart from pressure of other work. We'll get round to them eventually I'm sure, but we're still mostly dead-tree-version orientated.

[agawa-jean.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's very helpful.

[agawa-jean.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

And, though it's not enough difference to matter, the Gutenberg EPubs are smaller than their Mobipockets of the same book (at least in the cases I remember seeing lately). So it may represent a general pattern. (However, it may also just represent quirks in Gutenberg's particular conversion process to produce those two formats, in which case it's irrelevant to consideration of ebooks from elsewhere.)

[jilumasam.livejournal.com]

Well I have purchased my first ever ebook. I have kindle for PC on my computer, so now after paying about $6.50 Australian I now have the anthology sitting on my computer.

I'm seriously considering getting the YW international editions before I go on holidays :)

The shipping cart worked beautifully!

Lizzy :D

[trialia]

Yay! As soon as I have funds I will snag this :) which is to say, Tuesday, probably. Thanks for putting it up! I already have Theobroma, but it's the only story of that lot I do have.

[kd7sov]

You will, I hope, be making a similar announcement when the paper version becomes available? Even apart from file compatibilities, there's something very satisfying about having a physical book.

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! We'll be doing all the conversions of ebooks to paper books at the same time, during late March and early April. Exactly who the paper publisher is going to be is still up in the air -- we're looking into Amazon's service to see if it can handle the kind of typesetting requirements I have for a paper book.

Anyway, there'll definitely be an announcement on the various blogs and web pages.