Out of Ambit
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Curds and whey
There are these ten pounds that I keep getting rid of and that keep coming back. It’s sheer carelessness on my part: I get unconscious about what I eat for a few months, and whammo, the jeans stop fitting. So it’s time to make cottage cheese again. Yes, I said “make”. It’s not that they [...]
It’s not just US Presidents who visit Ireland. US wizards do it too.
In honor of President Barack Obama’s visit to Ireland today, we’re happy to announce the release of the latest in the series of Young Wizards International edition ebooks, A Wizard Abroad. Fourth in the Young Wizards series, A Wizard Abroad details how the concerned parents of fourteen-year-old Nita Callahan — thinking that she and fellow [...]
An afternoon at Trinity
Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas. Having earlier stopped in at Áras an Uachtaráin to be greeted by the President of Ireland, and having then laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin, Queen Elizabeth [...]
Fact meets fiction
Peter has been doing some genealogical research over the last couple of weeks, and has found out some unusual things about his family that none of us expected. For one thing, he’s looking for a McGuffin. Specifically, Iris McGuffin, one of many, many cousins on his mother’s side. For a writer… how appropriate that there [...]
Parousia delay (re-re-redux…)
I was going through Twitter this morning on the phone before getting out of bed, and suddenly started wondering what all the “rapture” stuff I was seeing was about. Normally when at home I don’t use US-based news sources much, finding them way too limited — mostly because of a tendency of such sources to ignore [...]
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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