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Mirroring the mirror: a new Dreamwidth blog
For some time now I’ve been mirroring this blog — my main one — over at LiveJournal, at “Word Salad II”. (There was a Word Salad I, but I forget what happened to it). However, as a lot of you will know, LJ has been suffering some (apparently) politically-based ructions over the last couple of [...]
Diana Wynne Jones
For those of us who work with wizards, the world is a little shadowier today. I can’t say that I knew Diana well — except in the way that any Constant Reader of a favorite Constant Writer may, when after much reading you begin to suspect that you know some of what’s going on “behind” [...]
A Chicken of Benghazi
Just one of those strange moments. Watching Sky News as the situation in Libya continues to unfold. Some video from this morning, from outside Benghazi, runs. A bright sunny day. Something explodes in the background, sending up a black-streaked fireball. People run in various directions. Small-arms fire rattles. In the far background, a burning truck [...]
“The Big Meow”: Completion
(Note: I thought this posted yesterday… but it turns out it was only saved as a draft. Apologies, everybody.) Friends, This is to let the world in general know that the final chapters of The Big Meow, third and last in the Feline Wizards sequence, are now going online for the subscribers to the project. [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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