Buy small this Xmas! Buy from me. All my books have reviews up on #Goodreads You can dig them out on #Booktopia (Aus) #BarnesAndNoble (US), #Watersontes (UK), and if you really must: #Amazon.

#books #BooksBooksBooks #Christmas #reading #AmReading #SciFi #Fantasy #paranormal #IndieArtist #writing

It's December, folkes! That means a whole bunch of people telling you to shop small and buy local for #xmas. You can do this by dodging #amazon and buying my books in Australia from #Booktopia and in the US from #BarnesAndNoble and the UK from #Waterstones
Aus:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/search?keywords=d.harrigon&productType=917504&pn=1
US:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/d.%20harrigon
UK:
https://www.waterstones.com/books/search/term/d++harrigon
#books #reading #FuckAmazon @bookstodon

Greetings, #BookLovers

Have you ever read any #book that’s a slice of life?
I’m writing slice of life books filled with pepper, jumbies, great exaggerations, truths.

#slice_of_life #booktopia #bookstodon

#IngramSpark distributes me through #Amazon, #BarnesAndNoble #Waterstones and #Booktopia.

Books by D. Harrigon:

Somebody Keeps Callin' - A woman wakes next to a headless corpse and says, "Oh, no. Not again."

Cruel Provocations - Lesbian witch fights capitalism in steampunk southern France.

Desolation: The Overdue Library and Keep Your Imgainary Friends close - Hetch didn't mean to destroy the world. She was just curious.

Desolation book three on #Kickstarter soon.

#FediBookShop #books

I just finished Alan Moore's "The Great When". Nominally an urban magic novel, it lulls you by appearing to follow the typical storyline for such works, but all the time you get the feeling that something is slightly off ... but unable to put your finger on it. Then, in the last gasps of the book, it turns around and stabs you between the eyes [and, most annoyingly, leaves Chekov's gun on the mantlepiece!].
This is the first book in a new series by the author of "Watchmen" and "V-for Vendetta".
The language is rich, and I found myself pausing many times to think about and enjoy his phrasing. The main characters are engaging but not necessarily likeable. I would much rather sit down for a beer with some of the peripherals...
Definitely worth reading and thinking about.
#booktopia
[edited spelling mistake]

Arrgh! For the second time I made the mistake of buying an eText (published by O’Reilly) from #Booktopia and finding it almost impossible to read. There is a distinction between eTexts and eBooks in Booktopia that isn’t made clear, but obviously affects how you can read them.

The only working option I found was to read it in a desktop browser tab from booktopia.vitalsource.com, which is ugly and difficult. The link for the iOS reader fails with a message that it is not available in my region. I think Booktopia used to have an iOS app but doesn’t any longer.

Has anybody worked out a solution (other than don’t buy these things)?

UPDATE: I have loaded the vitalsource reader into Safari on iPad, which is an improvement.

So grateful for folks helping to print my Sombulus omnibus! Here's Astyr's start with an immortal king who can't seem to get the hang of dying... and when the magic to remove his immortality gets... weird. 😆

Go claim yours at https://www.sombulus.com/omnibus , and thank you for sharing with your weird fantasy-loving friends! ✨

#bookteaster #booktopia #backerkit #crowdfunding

Sombulus - Books 1+2 Remastered

Three world-hopping adventurers - a flippant magic scavenger, curious tinkerer, and zealous paladin - solving the weird magic problems they find and the ones they create! An all-ages fun fantasy graphic novel series!

BackerKit

Good news for Booktopia!

And maybe now they'll deliver the book I ordered from them almost two months ago? 🤞

‘Well-placed for growth’: Booktopia has been saved by an online electronics store – which plans to invest millions | https://theconversation.com/well-placed-for-growth-booktopia-has-been-saved-by-an-online-electronics-store-which-plans-to-invest-millions-237028

#booktopia #digiDirect #australia

‘Well-placed for growth’: Booktopia has been saved by an online electronics store – which plans to invest millions

Booktopia made up 54.7% of Australia’s online bookselling market. Its sale to digiDirect is good news for Australian readers, writers and publishers.

The Conversation

Yeah, no, still can't type sombulus.com/omnibus without trying to make it ombibulususuusus

Anyway. Comic book big. Get big comic book in September. Has sillies and swordies. 📘 https://www.sombulus.com/omnibus

#Booktopia #Backerkit #crowdfunding

Get ready for Sombulus - an all-ages magical world-hopping graphic novel!

From Delphina - Get ready for Sombulus - an all-ages magical world-hopping graphic novel!

Delphina

Venting:

#Dymocks online #customer #support is a joke.
They send pointless circular requests like "Can we have information you just supplied" and if you don't respond the next day (Friday) close your ticket.
Not happy? Tough, you can't provide feedback on that ticket because you weren't at work until Monday and its expired.
Want to complain? Tough. All contacts go to the same useless team.

Dymocks in person: lovely and helpful. Would recommend
Dymocks online: 0/10, do not recommend, avoid them.

Hopefully #booktopia can find their way back :(