#macmillan

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in TUCSON (Mar 9-10), then San Francisco (Mar 13), Anaheim, and more!

It's been 21 years and 29 days since Tor Books published my first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. In the years since, Tor has published every one of my novels, sending me around the USA and Canada to talk about them. Now, they've teamed up with Humble Bundle to sell 18 of my ebooks on a name-your-price basis, with part of the proceeds going to benefit EFF:

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/cory-doctorow-novel-collection-tor-books-books

I've been associated with EFF even longer than I've been published by Tor! My first novel came out while I was working EFF's first-ever booth at CES. I split my time between the booth and my motel room, where I paid $0.25/call to dial up to Earthlink's local number and manage the launch-day publicity. Over the years, I've benefited immensely from Tor's editorial and publicity departments, working with brilliant publishing people like Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Patty Garcia, Dot Lin, Laura Etzkorn, Elena Stokes, Sarah Reidy, Lucille Rettino, and of course, Tor founder Tom Doherty.

But I like to think that it was a two-way street. Tor and I have come a long way together on ebooks: most visibly, they allowed me to publish several novels under Creative Commons licenses (my first book was the first ever CC book, coming out just weeks after the licenses themselves launched). As my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden said at the time, "Ebooks have the worst hours-in-meeting-to-dollars-in-revenue ratio of anything in my publishing career. Why not?"

https://craphound.com/down/download/

Just as important – but less visible – was Tor's willingness to let me insist that all my books be published without DRM, meaning that anything you buy on say, Amazon, can be moved to any reader program if you decide to start getting your ebooks elsewhere. This worked so well that in 2012, Tor became the first major publisher in the world to ban DRM on all its ebooks, flying me, John Scalzi and Charlie Stross to New York City to announce it this at a big, splashy event at Book Expo America:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130512022634/https://tor.com/blogs/2012/06/tor-books-announces-e-book-store-doctorow-scalzi-a-stross-talk-drm-free

Tor's unique status as the sole major DRM-free publisher in the world was well timed! That same year, I curated the very first Humble Ebook Bundle, which was very top-heavy with Tor titles, and raised more than $1,000,000 for the writers, publishers and charities associated with it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121017215636/http://www.humblebundle.com/

That opened the floodgates to a series of Humble Bundles, tempting other major publishers to dabble with DRM-free, including Simon and Schuster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-I5QyAfglU

And Harpercollins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHMLfeCrCrE

Now, 12 years after that inaugural Humble Ebook Bundle, I find myself honored by being the subject of a bundle of my own (it helps that I've written a hell of a lot of books in the intervening years). Included in the bundle are (nearly) all of my Tor novels and novellas: The Lost Cause; "The Canadian Miracle" (a Lost Cause story); Red Team Blues; Radicalized; Walkaway; "Party Discipline" (a Walkaway story); Pirate Cinema; Rapture of the Nerds (with Charlie Stross); For The Win; Makers; Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Eastern Standard Tribe, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother, Homeland, Attack Surface, and "Lawful Interception" (a Little Brother story).

(The sole exclusion is The Bezzle, which came out two weeks ago and is already a USA Today national bestseller!)

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Also included in the bundle is Poesy the Monster Slayer, my 2020 picture book for the littlies:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627/poesythemonsterslayer

All these books are delivered as DRM-free epub files. The Bundle runs for the next three weeks, and the minimum buy-in is $18 – that's just $1/book (full retail value is $187). Of course, you can name a higher price, and, as with all Humble Bundles, you can adjust the final split to share out the money between me, EFF, and the Humble folks.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/03/humbly-bundled/#eff-too

#pluralistic #ebooks #publishing #science fiction #tor books #tor #macmillan #drm #drm-free #eff #electronic frontier foundation

[millerdoc]

#peter capaldi #the big c #Macmillan #cancer

[fitsofgloom]

Keep On Tryin', You Know It's Undyin'! This was actually adapted for the screen in 1942 by Twentieth Century Fox.

#the undying monster #jessie douglas kerruish #macmillan #tandem #1936 #vintage paperbacks

[princessbutler1316]

Crazy Foreshadow in Kuro II

Number 1

Well...let's start with this scene...

I know... don't ask...just keep in mind that Kuro II was 2010 and Weston started in 2012...

Number two

So… remember what I said in the constellation it looked like one of the silhouettes looked like it was missing its head in the new ending?

So…it was a reference, someone else also lost their mind and head, who do you ask?

Well…Alois...Trancy...

...yeah...Someone is going to lose their head in the near future, I don't think it was Snake bc his neck was cut not the head (it might be me if I start creating more theories again)

#again kuro I and II situation are the prototype and might have some clues #kuroshitsuji #black butler #alois trancy #black butler theories #ciel phantomhive #macmillan #kuroshitsuji ii #black butler manga

[morggo]

Here's a better #ArtistWrapped2022 #ArtVsArtist2022 along with some few huge accomplishments from this year. I didn’t think I’d ever see my art in a book store, but here I am.

The Stranger Interview

Venom & Vow

Your Body Is Not Your Body

Thank you everyone for a great year! Here’s to 2023.

#2022 #artists wrapped #art vs artist #my art #the stranger #venom and vow #macmillan #your body is not your body #trans #trans artist

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

CLARE LEIGHTON

We return once again to one of our favorite 20th-century wood engravers, the English/American artist, writer, and illustrator Clare Leighton (1898-1989), this time with engraved illustrations for Thomas Hardy’s novel Under the Greenwood Tree, printed by R. & R. Clark in Edinburgh and published in New York (and simultaneously in London) by the Macmillan Company in 1940. The text is from Hardy’s second novel originally published in 1872, and this edition was published to commemorate Hardy’s birth in 1840, for which Clare Leighton produced more than 60 engravings. Of Leighton’s work, the dust jacket notes declare:

Miss Leighton has won a place among England's outstanding artists: “a rural Rembrandt” is the title given her by Ernest Rhys, who, in the Observer, stresses “her uncanny mastery of light and shade.” Henry Seidel Canby, writing in The Saturday Evening Review of Literature, has remarked on “the great pictorial beauty of her extraordinarily strong and dramatic engravings.” She has been called “one of the finest of contemporary wood engravers.” 

Both as artist and as one who knows intimately the country of Thomas Hardy’s novels, Miss Leighton has made this illustrated edition one which should appeal equally to art lovers and lovers of Hardy’s work.

The blurb isn’t wrong.

View more posts with work by Clare Leighton.

View more posts with work by women wood engravers.

View more Women’s History Month posts.

View more posts with wood engravings!

#Wood Engraving Wednesday #women's history month #wood engravings #wood engravers #women wood engravers #Clare Leighton #Thomas Hardy #Under the Greenwood Tree #R. & R. Clark #Macmillan Company #Macmillan

[the-book-ferret]

Every person, no matter how small, can do something to change the world for us all!

#thebookferret #books #booklr #book worm #book nerd #book pets #book addict #book photography #bibliophile #ferret #ferrets of tumblr #pets of tumblr #wasabi #we are allies #macmillan #taimani emerald #picture book

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#friends with boys #faith erin hicks #macmillan #young adult #graphic novel #graphic novels #poll

[zer0-hunter]

👻

#captain Macmillan #Macmillan #call of duty

[emilybeemartin]

Some recent sneak peeks at A Field Guide to Mermaids that I've been posting on Instagram. It releases on September 27!

#a field guide to mermaids #mermaids #middle grade #science fantasy #childrens books #2022 releases #macmillan #mackids books #henry holt #mola #harlequin ducks #bull trout #other esoteric subjects im too tired to list

[sarahbethdurst]

The Spellshop ARCs!!!

My SPELLSHOP ARCs arrived!!! I'm so in awe of the cover artist, Lulu Chen. I can't even imagine how gorgeous the finished hardcover is going to be, with its lovely lavender sprayed edges. I'm picturing that scene in Pulp Fiction when John Travolta opens the glowing briefcase….. *faints in anticipation*

#books #the spellshop #sarah beth durst #bramble romance #tor #macmillan #cozy fantasy #cottagecore

[teratophallia]

Trapper...Gonna post the full version on my twitter eventually! Supporters have early access :>

Do NOT repost my art; do NOT roleplay with my art

LinkTree | Twitter(18+) | Commission Info

#trapper #DBD #dbd art #DbD Killer #dbd fanart #Fanart #trapper dbd #censored #nsft #digital art #Digital Illustration #my fanart #my art #my post #evan macmillan #macmillan #dead by deadlight

[andiree]

New cover of mine featuring COOL AWESOME STRONG GORGEOUS SPORTY SPICY GALS!!! Actually titled Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports, this anthology is a powerhouse of athleticism and good vibes. Happy and thrilled to take part in this!

Art Directed by L. Whitt

#my art #book covers #book cover design #girls in sports #Out of Our League #dahlia adler #jennifer iacopelli #macmillan

[bellwood-qudditch]

Melania Black nèe MacMillan

Faceclaim: Phoebe Dynevor

“The wife to Arcturus Black III, mother to Lucretia Black and Orion Black”

April 3rd, 1903–July 1st, 1970

#melania macmillan #harry potter #harry potter series #hp #sirius black #regulus black #the noble and most ancient house of black #lucretia black #orion black #walburga black #phoebe black #magenta tripe #magenta black #marauders era #ernie macmillan #hufflepuff #slytherin #macmillan

[rawstfish]

Mossy Green MacMillan requested by @angelsarewatching

#I hated it at first #but now I like it :) #I hope u like it :) #my post #call of duty #modern warfare #call of duty modern warfare #macmillan

[pageturnersblog]

Leigh Bardugo announced her next project, THE FAMILIAR, releasing in April 2024. In her Instagram post, she calls it a "historical fantasy set in the Spanish Golden Age." Bardugo continues to say The Familiar is an adult, but not horror, stand alone story.

The other 2 pics in this post are from Bardugo's Instagram stories where she shared the image behind the cover.

Check out Bardugo's announcement Instagram post to learn more! And her bio contains links to pre-order.

Below is the blurb from Flatiron's book page:

Set in the Spanish Golden Age, during a time of high‑stakes political intrigue and glittering wealth, The Familiar follows Luzia, a servant in the household of an impoverished Spanish nobleman who reveals a talent for little miracles. Her social‑climbing mistress demands Luzia use her gifts to win over Madrid’s most powerful players but what begins as simple amusement takes a dangerous turn. Luzia will need to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even the help of Guillén Santangel, an immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.

#leigh bardugo #the familiar #macmillan #book recommendations #tbr list #tbr #preorder #2024 books #historical fantasy