Our Signed Books page is out of furlough at last! Read more about it here…

(Ported in from its original location on Tumblr… with thanks to all the folk above me in that thread who kicked me into this unusual mode / moment of fiction.…

For some time now we’ve been working on a new book and ebook gateway to support the UK readers to whom (due to the bureaucracy inflicted by Her Majesty’s Customs…

It’s looking like the Owl Springs Partnership site needs a reaming out (asst’d technical issues) so I’m relocating some stuff for safety’s sake. Our Parmesan biscuit recipes have been there:…

(Note: This post is ported in from one that sprang from an ask-box question at Tumblr, and is reproduced here for those who don’t care to deal with Tumblr’s data-privacy…

The slang term “Angles and dangles” is probably best known from its usage among submariners. Among them, it describes the deep-dive and steep-ascent maneuvers performed by a sub at the…

I’m putting these here so I don’t lose them (again. EYEROLL). They come out of a collection of nearly a hundred thousand Meal-Master format recipes that I accumulated/accreted over a…

So last night I got annoyed by a clueless politician’s tweet about COVID vaccination (no, I’m not going to link to it) and told them, “Sit down, shut up, and…

When the CrossingsCon committee initially started planning for the next CrossingsCon in 2021, nobody involved with the event would have been likely to have any real sense of what lay…

(Every now and then the need to tell this story comes up. I mentioned it one time on Tumblr, and thought I’d better import it over here so that (a)…

We’ve been using the standard garden-variety North American style of home bread-baking pan for a long time, but there comes a moment when you realize suddenly that you’ve been using…

This recipe, in a number of variants, is a favorite around here. I’ve referred to it here and there online, but realized (when I went looking, per a request) that…

It’s just one of those words a cook really needs. Merci, la France… Les petits plats qui mijotent au coin du feu is a phrase that is used like a…

Because when composers start talking about cooking, it’s smart to listen. 🙂 This bake unfolded on the Twitter thread here: https://bit.ly/DavidGArnoldsCake 1/2 Equal weight of eggs butter sugar flour .…

(I’ve copied this post over here from its original location at Tumblr for those who’re not wild about visiting there and having to deal with their data permissions.) A question…

Everybody gets all hot under the collar about the composition and mixology details of James Bond’s (usually) favorite mixed drink. But one piece of Bondian lore about the drink that…