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May
25th
2019

Tales of the Sun · 4:50am May 25th, 2019

The Ministry of Image, a group of Russian bronies who print hardbacks of famous pony tales, is coming out with a great new anthology of stories about Celestia: "Tales of the Sun".

I know it's great because I know they have great taste, and I know they have great taste because they have a story by me!

They were going to print 3 stories by me.  But I suggested they look at Georg's "In Celestia We Trust, All Others Pay Cash", and they did, and kicked out 2 of my stories to make room for it.  This is why you should never be nice to people. :trixieshiftleft:

It costs $25, and has these stories:

  • Brokenimage321 – Celestia XVII
  • PhantomFox – Sunny Skies All Day Long
  • Skywriter – Princess Celestia Hates Tea
  • Prane – Dune Goddess
  • Horizon – Administrative Angel
  • GhostOfHeraclitus – Whom the Princesses Would Destroy...
  • Miller Minus – Analemma
  • Georg – In Celestia We Trust, All Others Pay Cash
  • Bad Horse – Sisters

I have not read all of these, because I'm lame--Metaphorically!  Put down that shotgun, Biscuit!--but I have read most of them, and those that I read were excellent.

But, shipping to the US is $20.  I asked lezvion, a member of the Ministry of Image, about lowering shipping costs by shipping a box of pre-ordered books to Bronycon.  I don't know if anything will come of that. PM lezvion if you're interested in that. Who knows; maybe they'll do it.

There's a companion book, also $25, for those of you who can't handle the Sun: Tales of the Moon.  It has these stories:

  • Tigerhorse – Her Soldiers, We
  • Dragonjek – Music for the Mare in the Moon
  • TheKissoftheVoid – The Nightmare Omen
  • Chuckfinley – Luna, Princess of Space
  • Pearple Prose – Tenebrae
  • Cynewulf – Lunangrad
  • Ponydora Prancypants – Que Sera, Sera
  • Horizon – Thou Goddess & Quiet Boy and Moon Horse

Don't get confused and accidentally order that one, because it doesn't have a story by me in it.

Some of you may be wondering, as I did, "What's their racket?  Does it really cost $25 to print up a bunch of fanfic stories that they got for free?  Can I get in on this action and make a bundle?" :trixieshiftright:

I looked into it.  Yes. Yes, it really does.  And that's not even counting what they spent on artwork and typesetting.  No, you cannot make a bundle doing this [1]. (Also, it turns out "muscle in on the Russians" is a poor business plan.) So keep turning those tricks and strong-hoofing those shopkeepers.


[1] Unless that bundle is in the shipping charges, which seems unlikely; the Russian post office's lowest rate to ship 1 kg to the US is about $11.

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Comments ( 3 )

It does sound like they did an amazing amount of work on both books.

Those Russian Bronies do some amazing stuff!

I don't know if it's the same group, but there's at least one more upcoming book from the Russians. They asked me for 2 of my stories, and I know Cold in Gardez has at least 1 in it (they wanted a foreword to each story, and the example they sent me was by him), but that's the extent of my knowledge about it.

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