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There I was at 4:45 in the morning, with stars overhead... and a few small meteors in the span of my ten minutes or so spent absorbing the experience. The sky was slightly bland from the humidity of the dew, and probably from the dawn too, barely imminent.

Sounds in the distance, coyotes, owls, a truck zooming along very far away on the expressway, a car on the road from Albion to Winslow, some chirpy things that were probably birds. Thankfully, no cluck from the chickens our neighbor has imported to pollute the country sounds.

A sound from behind me as I stare up: Scrabble, jumping into the kitchen window. Usually I'll take her out for a turn on the deck a couple times a day, but rarely in the dark -- and not this morning. Scrabble is very cat, sometimes chases behind me through the open door ... or struggles from my arms. In the light I can find her easily.

Meanwhile, I dunno what was up. Neither of us could sleep once Mozart jumped off the bed and began proclaiming ... something ... in the kitchen. I thought he'd caught a mouse, so got up full of chase-the critter-down energy but apparently he just needed to say something. He...went back to sleep.

Or maybe it's the excitement, since this is the "official" pub date for Duainfey. Reallio trullio, this would be a good day for you to rush off to your favorite genre shop, big box store, or local indie and buy or order a couple copies. If you've done this already, let another friend or two know, or ask your library to get a copy in.


Duainfey .. by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
# ISBN-10: 1416555528
# ISBN-13: 978-1416555520
$24

Apparently in stock in some Borders, at some Barnes & Noble, at Amazon, at Uncle Hugos, at Larry Smith Bookseller, also at Powell's, Books-A-Million, at Chapters, and soon to have signed copies at Mysterious Galaxy. We'd like to hear reports of sightings, too -- anyone seen one at a Waldenbooks? At Tattered Cover in Denver? Toadstool Books in New Hampshire? Constellation Books (the one in Reisterstown, MD.) ... and how about Little Professor? Or maybe Greetings and Readings? Really ...get us a list of who has it an we'll post it here as time permits....

Hehe -- a search at Wal*Mart online seems to indicate they *do not* carry Duainfey. Whoa, now that's a sign of book about magic gone bad, alright. Too bad for the big-squeaky clean.

FWIW, Duainfey's been bouncing around in the amazon rankings - we've seen it in the 2000s and in the 12000s in the last week, this morning it was 8023.

And now go, spread the word about Duainfey! -- there are writers in the world and they need crunchies for their cats!

2008-09-02 11:56 (UTC)
by [identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com
As noted in Sharon's comment-space, Duainfey spotted in the wild in Beechwood, Ohio. Borders shelf.

Duainfey sighting

2008-09-02 13:17 (UTC)
by (Anonymous)
The Borders Express (formerly Waldenbooks) where I work in Westminster, MD got in 2 copies of Duainfey in the weekly shipment last Friday. It didn't have a mandated street date, so the books went on the shelf immediately. I know that the Borders Express in Owings Mills in Baltimore County also got at least one copy. Both my colleague there and I had already ordered in and bought our copies by then.

Re: Duainfey sighting

2008-09-02 17:03 (UTC)
by (Anonymous)
Wait a minute --
we got fans in Westminster we don't know about? Gah .. .we could have stopped by a few weeks ago... is this the store in the old Cranberry Mall? We signed there .. it may been 1n 1988 when Agent of Change came out ...

Re: Duainfey sighting

2008-09-02 20:38 (UTC)
by (Anonymous)
Yep, it's the formerly Cranberry Mall, now the 'Town Mall of Westminster'. Same place. And don't think I wasn't waiting for you two to show up a few weeks ago!

Re: Duainfey sighting

2008-09-02 21:44 (UTC)
by (Anonymous)
Sigh ...
we were *very* scheduled; consider that a stop at the Bojangles was a big break, and a visit to the WaWa heavy news. Other than that 9and a walk to Safeway) we had family stuff set for 12 hours out of ten.

2008-09-02 15:39 (UTC)
by [identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com
Waterstones UK online says that it is still available for pre-order, released today. Not available on the shelves and they wouldn't normally have it because they have to go through a different supplier (they can order it, it just won't be stocked in their warehouse because it's a non-UK publisher).

Duainfey

2008-09-03 03:03 (UTC)
by (Anonymous)
Waldenbooks in rural Peru IL has it.
Sid Whitaker

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2008-09-03 18:00 (UTC)
by [identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
Someone mentioned you on [livejournal.com profile] filkertom's LJ; now that I know you're here, I've added you to my Friends list.

I greatly enjoyed the Liaden books and much of your other writing. I'll keep an eye out for Duainfey.

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