The original street map for SO YOU WANT TO BE A WIZARD
The things you find. …I was trying to clear out some space in the hard drive on the big desktop machine, and ran into this. I wasn’t even aware I’d scanned it. (For archival purposes, there’s also a...
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A possible influence on Prince Roshaun
Someone asked: Somewhere I recall DD posting a picture of what she thinks may have been in the back of her mind when she first wrote Roshaun. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? (NOT the more...
View ArticleThe Young Wizards Series: 2017 Hugo Eligibility
(DD says: ) I’ve been busy handling work at home while recovering from a back injury, so I’ve left this posting a little late. That being the case, let me be brief. The 75th World Science Fiction...
View ArticleYoung Wizards Discussion Forums up and running again
ETA: The YW Discussion Forums are up again after their upgrade to vBulletin 4.2.4. Unfortunately the upgrade meant that some of our plugins became nonfunctional, and/or broke the site, so it took...
View ArticleYW Forum members: nonactive user purge is coming
If you’re a Young Wizards Discussion Forums member and you want to keep your membership intact — meaning your profile and all your associated messages and threads — please note: we’re about to purge...
View Article“Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal” and “On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr” available now!
The official “drop date” on these two new works is June 27, but we’ve begun an early rollout of Interim Errantry 2: On Ordeal and On Ordeal: Ronan Nolan Jnr. over the weekend of June 23-25 Two of the...
View ArticleSummer Reading Sale
Sometimes you just want to get away somewhere and settle in for a good long read. We’re here to help… especially if you need some enchantment to take your mind off the heat. Discover a new and...
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“Young Wizards: Lifeboats”: files with new covers on their way
For those of you who may have copies of this already, just a heads-up for you. We’re giving YW: Lifeboats a new cover so that it’ll no longer look identical to Interim Errantry. (That will also have a...
View ArticleIn the Blue Food department: possibly inevitable
For wizards who’re not quite that young, via Firebox, here’s Abashiri Blue Beer. The ad says: The Bluest beer in the whole world Local flowers and seaweed endow it with its striking colour Contains...
View ArticleAt Entertainment Weekly: a very nice shout-out
In a collection of “10 Books You’ve Probably Never Read, But Should”, the whole series is singled out. (So to speak.) Long before J.K. Rowling rescued Harry Potter from his cupboard under the stairs,...
View ArticleYoung Wizards New Millennium Edition updates start November 20
During the third week of November we’re beginning the process of rolling out new, updated editions of the Young Wizards NMEs, with new cover art and reformatted, reset interiors. Whether you’ve...
View ArticleAt Ebooks Direct: New editions of the Interim Errantry works
We’re now getting close to the end of the long-running project of reformatting and recovering everything in the Ebooks Direct store. As part of this project, we’re delighted to let Young Wizards fans...
View ArticleCrossingsCon 2021 dates announced!
Late last year the CrossingsCon committee confirmed that the next CrossingsCon would be held in 2021. Now they’ve got the details sorted out and have formally announced the new dates. CrossingsCon 2021...
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Changes at YW.com: your opinions solicited
(waving at the online Young Wizards fandom) Folks, it’s time to look at some changes that are coming to the YW online presence, and discuss at least one of them with you in detail. The YoungWizards.com...
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From the Young Wizards universe: an update
Let me start by thanking everybody who saw the previous posting discussing the changes to come to the YoungWizards.com domain, and who took the time to get back to me with their thoughts. Some...
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Owl Be Home For Christmas
(DD says:) Sometimes work and life come at you fast, in tandem. I was taking a break from work on Tales of the Five 3: The Librarian last week, and (as I do frequently during the day) having a look at...
View ArticleThe Errantry Concordance rebuild begins: the Fireworm
Lanthanodrax speleotraxis.1 (Also the occasionally occuring “sport” or hypotrophic subspecies, L. speleotraxis ignigastris.) The colloquial name is identical with that used for the marine bristleworm...
View ArticleErrantry Concordance rebuild: Perytons
Neither a creature or a construct, but containing elements of both, the peryton is a shell of matter inhabited and animated by the soul of a former human being.1 Perytons are members of the larger...
View ArticleLooking for the Young Wizards Slack?
The Young Wizards Slack is located here: https://the-crossings.slack.com/ The post Looking for the Young Wizards Slack? appeared first on Young Wizards.
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“Young Wizards: Lifeboats”: files with new covers on their way
For those of you who may have copies of this already, just a heads-up for you. We’re giving YW: Lifeboats a new cover so that it’ll no longer look identical to Interim Errantry. (That will also have a...
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