Something a little unusual (and delightful!) in the “Meanwhile, on Twitter…” dep’t! A shout-out to something of “mine” that appears in the final episode of Star Trek: Picard—the Denebian-crewed Federation…

Like a lot of people, I’m in some shock about what’s going on at Twitter right now. The massive firings that started happening in early November (2022) and continue as…

(I’m ​@dianeduane@mastodon.social over there.) …Actually I’ve had an account there since spring of last year, with an eye to a time when the kinds of things might start happening to…

(Ported in from Tumblr, for those who don’t want to deal with its data ToS…) tall-tree-tales asked: Hi Diane! I’ve been a huge fan of your Star Trek work for…

It’ll all be happening in Montréal! I’m one of three guests—alone with Megan Whalen Turner and Ursula Vernon—at this very cozy, intimate and exclusive gathering of cousins and associated others.…

So the Washington Post tells us today that President Biden is proposing that Hudson Canyon be designated as a new national marine sanctuary — more or less the undersea equivalent…

(Just to clarify: the above phrase isn’t used here in the far more important sense in which John Lewis used it… but for something that’s “good” as we sometimes define…

So I was wandering through Tumblr (as I do at least once a day, occasionally leaving evidence that I’ve been there) and ran across someone’s rather plaintive message to Neil…

The paperback and ebook versions of the new So You Want To Be A Wizard International editions are here at last! The new International Editions will all use the revised/expanded…

(Above: Peter Morwood at the Central Park Lake boathouse, 1987) Sometimes all you can do is repeat yourself. As of today, it’s been nineteen thirty-five years since I married this…

…It’s Christmas Eve, and once again (as has become our preference over time, assisted recently by certain Viruses That Shall Remain Nameless) Peter and I have spent this evening quietly…

Just storing this link (and recipe) here so I won’t lose track of them. Do visit The Greedy Frog’s page on the subject and read the (correctly) cranky rant about…

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…