On this day twenty-five years ago, I got married (for the first time*) to the coolest man on Earth. There he is in a pic I took of him some…

There is a moment in Sherlock‘s second-season episode “The Hounds of Baskerville” in which the world’s first and only consulting detective is attempting to get to grips with the fact…

I’ve been a fan of Sherlock Holmes for many, many years. I don’t even really remember when I first started reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal tales of the world’s first…

As some of you may have heard, this has been an unusual week in this corner of county Wicklow. At some point in the recent past, someone skimmed my bank…

This is such a cool thing. Some months back I had a nice email from Melissa Elliott, who’s the Senior Librarian in charge of Young Adult Services at the Burbank…

In the dimness he woke and knew it was too late. Morning never came so late unless the world was ending. Fortunately, he knew what to do about that. He…

A peculiar thing happens in a number of European countries, mostly (but not all) German-speaking, on or around New Year’s Eve. The TV stations begin showing the same brief comedy…

Now available at last in ebook format are Peter’s two prequels to his Horse Lords series. Now, of course the Horse Lords’ Book of Years purports to tell the true…

It all started with this tweet from @DonSpeirs: “@wilw @dduane fan project for #Kimvention2012 – What do you think the 6 Tasks of Snowman Hank were? #kimpossible #snowmanhank” …All I…

So here’s where we talk a little about the process of planning and writing the outline for The Six Tasks of Snowman Hank, from the point of view of someone…

This is so cool! I didn’t know that this was going to be coming out so quickly. Just this last Friday, Audible popped out the audiobook edition of Raetian Tales…

It started with this tweet from @DonSpeirs: “@wilw @dduane fan project for #Kimvention2012 – What do you think the 6 Tasks of Snowman Hank were? #kimpossible #snowmanhank” …All I can…

  My author’s copies of the new graphic novel arrived last week, so now I have some to give away as part of the celebrations surrounding the release of the…

It’s been in the works for a good while now, so it’s a pleasure to announce that the new revised ebook edition of Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses — which anticipated…

ETA, November 1 — Contributors: You beat our goal of USD $1000 (by pushing the contribution total up to more than $1100)! THANK YOU so much for your help —…

So there we were in Nürnberg, aka Nuremberg, home of the polymath who drew hares and hands (does he make anybody else think of Alan Rickman in that first image,…

I started suspecting some weeks back that we might be close to losing Steve Jobs. I never suspected we were this close, though. This morning’s news comes as a shock,…

Caught on the way home from Basler Fasnacht, 2005: A gentleman of Zürich sits at the back bar in Brasserie Federal, halfway down a Calanda Bier and watching the football……

Thinking about it quite hard. All of you who’re in the NY area at the moment… please be safe. Storms of this intensity that have hit the Island in the…

You could not make this up. While looking for more info about Queen of Hungary Water, I stumbled across this at a Hungarian perfumer’s site: Méchant Loup …A characteristic and…

My husband likes to smell good in lots of different ways. As a result, he collects colognes — almost none of them the big names familiar in high-street shops and…

We’ve just added complete single-download sets of the nine Young Wizards International Editions to the Ebooks Direct store. Each of these download packages contains all the Young Wizards novels in…

For those who might be interested: all the books at our Ebooks Direct store are now available in multiple-format bundles. We’re not charging extra for this, as I don’t see…

The best camouflage you will ever see. This guy comes out of cloak like a startled Romulan warbird, then fires (ink) and hurriedly makes off for a more, ahem, neutral…