June Books 22-27) Digger vols 1-6, by Ursula Vernon

[nwhyte]

As I worked through my Hugo Voter Packet, I eventually reached the file labelled "Digger_Optimized.pdf" and opened it. My heart sank as I realised that it is 830 pages in length - I think only A Dance With Dragons is longer, of this year's book nominees - and then my eyebrows rose as I realised that the first edition of the first volume was

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[bellinghman]

I love ursulav's stuff. She's got a lovely quirky whimsical weirdness to her which I adore. She could be twee, what with talking animals and all, but she's not.

One of these days I'm going to raid the piggy bank and buy a whole bunch of prints from her, including the 'My Little Piggy' that eventuated from a thread on dduane's LJ, and the picture of the Hawaii'an Warrior Princess who suffers under the shortcoming that when it came to an animal familiar, the only available sizeable mammal on those islands is the pig.

We have, somewhere, at least the first volume of Digger.

[sofawolf]

It's always interesting to hear about how readers first discover Ursula Vernon and Digger. Thanks for posting about yours! We're very excited to have Digger among this year's Hugo Awards nominees.

For your non-Hugo-voting readers, I'd like to point out that Digger started out as a webcomic, and the whole thing is available for free at diggercomic.com. (The site has been a little wonky lately, but appears to be up now.)

And as publishers, we'd be remiss to not point out that the entire 6 volumes can be purchased for the price of 5 right now on our website. :) The printed books include extra materials not found in the webcomic (but do appear in the Hugo packet): Follow the links from the comic, because apparently adding multiple links in comments here gets you flagged as spam.

[rebelsheart]

Joining notaspammer (Yes, I know exactly how that sounds - especially given that the community's two entries are in Russian.), may get you around the erroneous spam flagging.

[ext_1330421]

I've been enjoying her Dragonbreath series (and making sure the local public libraries get them). I was delighted to find Digger in my packet and, yes, made sure two local public libraries got the paper edition. Great series!

Kathy Sullivan