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If You Knew Fiuggi (or: Deepcon XIII, March 2012)
It’s a pleasure to confirm that we’ll be attending Deepcon XIII in beautiful Fiuggi, Italy, next year. (I see that the news is already out here.) Dates haven’t yet been finalized, but the convention organizers advise us that the convention will be happening in the second half of March 2012. And we would not miss [...]
Some Ryanair moments
A friend asked to see these videos, so I thought I’d bundle them together in a single post. They’re comments on a certain airline which unarguably has changed the face of aviation in Europe — unquestionably for the better — but has since turned into something of a nightmare. Our own nightmare unfolded during the [...]
In the Writer Superstitions Dep’t: The Magic Pad
Almost all writers I know have work superstitions, though it’s not something we usually discuss except amongst ourselves. They’re like the superstitions some sportsmen have — the way, for example, that baseball players cross themselves when they’re coming up to bat. (Often provoking the response, Oh, come on now, you didn’t have to cross yourself [...]
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 [...]
Lost a camera or had it stolen?
We had a camera stolen from us some years back while en route to Freiburg from Basel on a late train. It’ll be interesting to see whether this is any good to us – StolenCameraFinder.com The site reads EXIF info from one of your own digital photos and then trolls the Web looking for other [...]
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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