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Just your reminder that these (ebook) prices will be on offer for only four more days... until at 23:59 Irish time on New Year's Eve, all prices in the store go back to their pre-discount levels.

Why not duck in there now and get a whole heap of reading while it's still cheap? And keep your local online semi-indie author from getting overly broke. :)

Here's the link:

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Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle

By popular demand! This ebook bundle contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works. All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with t

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December 20, 2010: The blizzard of the century is on its way.

So are the aliens.

JD 2455550.52 / December 20th, 2010...

It’s five days till Christmas, and the day before the 2010 Winter Solstice. The biggest pre-Christmas blizzard seen for decades is heading straight for the New York metropolitan area. But in one small corner of the Town of Hempstead, everyone’s attention is on other business. That’s because there’s a party tonight at Juan and Marina Rodriguez’s house… and the guest of honor is a being from four hundred light years away who looks a whole lot like a Christmas tree.

The motive force behind the festivities is the redoubtable Carmela Rodriguez, intent on her longtime plan to fulfill one of the great wishes of the wizard known as Filif—to finally get him into a full set of Christmas decorations. The two-day party that ensues (with an epic sleepover in the middle) brings together a cast of old and new friends to eat, drink, exchange presents... and deal with a local holiday-season problem in a very wizardly way.

This 35,000 word novella is a canonical work in the Young Wizards universe and takes place between the events of A Wizard of Mars and Games Wizards Play. ...And at Ebooks Direct, you can now get it in a single package with the How Lovely Are Thy Branches Advent Calendar—a collection of twenty-five "behind the scenes" scenes that don't appear in the original work.

Contains:

Toxic vintage Christmas lights

Tales of why you should always shake the eggnog jug

Examples of finding just the right present

The revelation of unusual kinks

Headhunting for the intergalactic catering industry

Weird musical theater

And the answer to the ever-controversial question: What the heck is a mochteroof?

Get the How Lovely Are Thy Branches Christmas Package at Ebooks Direct for just $2.99!

These works also appear as standalone volumes in the "All The Wizardry" bundle.*

...UK readers: As usual, with regret, please note that due to Brexit, Ebooks Direct can no longer sell directly into the UK. (More details here.) However, if you're UK-based, you can obtain the Kindle print or ebook versions of Interim Errantry—which contains How Lovely Are Thy Branches—from Amazon.co.uk.

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.