The background The recipe The basic recipe for crumpets may possibly have originated in the English Midlands as a variant of the older pancakes and griddle breads that were already…

A quick note about this entry: The material below initially appeared in my very first blog (hand-coded, every page of it…), “Homeward”, at our old owlsprings.com site. That domain—originally sited…

…that most meta of Irish holidays, and certainly the most Dublinesque. So on this special day only (June 16, 2024), the urban fantasy novella Herself is naturally free to download!…

Via Peter’s Tumblr: he kindly translated the original from the Betty Bossi Swiss baking cookbook for me. Alsatian tarte flambée This delicious speciality from Alsace is also ideal for an…

Update, December 2023: I’ve revised this post a number of times since I first added it to OOA in November 2022. It started out with concern about what was happening…

…And yes, we’re having a sale to celebrate. But that can wait. 🙂 I’m sitting here looking at the date and considering how amazing it is that, despite the changes…

Just posting this recipe here so that it can be found a little more readily. A tip of the virtual hat to the source on Tumblr, @locusimperium. The ones in…

Just a word about our websites at YoungWizards.com, PeterMorwood.com and EuropeanCuisines.com: All three of these sites (and in YW.com’s case, the smaller sites associated with it) are currently down due…

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…

(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…