So I finally got into Windows XP recovery console a few times and took a look around. The error message I’d been receiving was this one: “Windows could not start…

Ah, gently aging XP machine that lives upstairs… Today I thought I would relieve you of a little of your burden by finally getting my old iTunes installation moved into…

The nice folks at Shopify have rolled out a new feature that allows us to offer discounts on specific items or specific collections at the Ebooks Direct store. So we’re…

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I’ve loved comics all my life. I don’t even remember when the first one fell into my world, or what it was: comics simply seem to have been around me…

Look at the headbumps, the rubbing, the goofery. These guys enjoy each other.      

  …Not Voldemort, of course. I harbor a certain sneaking affection for a villain who manages to get so much done without a nose, and who has exploited for his…

A trailer that pitches the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince film as a screwball teen comedy. Not much else to be done but watch it repeatedly and roll around…

Work day, busy busy. But first: At the Ebooks Direct store we now have Microsoft Reader versions  (the .lit format) of The Door into Fire, The Door into Shadow, The…

eries First thing this morning, as usual, I fumbled around on the bedside table and grabbed for the smartphone to see what interesting things had happened while I was asleep.…

For those of you who may have visited the Ebooks Direct store to pick up .epub or Kindle / .mobi copies of the omnibus containing all three Middle Kingdoms books…

…about what’s going on at the moment*. I mean of course the Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Jonathan Swift — that perfect raconteur, columnist, satirist without peer, and…

(Edited to add: The files for The Door into Shadow and The Door Into Sunset at the store have also now been updated and notifications sent out). The three “Door…

Just a note to let those interested know: the Japanese edition of A Wizard Abroad is now out. Also available: So You Want to Be a Wizard in Japanese Deep…

There it is, the oldest and most beat-up copy I own of the book that got me spanked when I was eight. Having until then been gorging on a SF/fantasy…

After a dry spell that lasted way too long for our farmer-neighbors’ preference, we’ve been having a lot of rain in the last couple of weeks, and as a result…

Our friends and colleagues at Tandem Communications in Germany have just announced that they’re ready to go to principal photography on Ken Follett’s World Without End. Tandem (predictably) did a…

…Yeah, you heard that right. This is apparently a pre-alpha, meaning that everything about it may have already changed. Nevertheless, I’m going to go off somewhere quietly now and clutch…

This came to us uncredited. Somebody please tell us who’s responsible so I can link back to them! ETA: Done. See also this reference at KnowYourMeme.        …

See that, she’s not always geeking out over Green Lantern.* There are too many sourdough biscuit recipes out there that are simply substandard. A lot of them have titles like…

ETA:  Now with a better image of Mogo!! … I originally posted this piece of writing some years back when there was a Green Lantern-drawing meme going around. But this…

It’s taken a while, but it’s so super to be able to announce that at last readers outside the US and Canada can acquire all the Young Wizards books in…

Terragen 2.0 really is a wonderful toy. I’ve been using it for the Young Wizards international edition ebook covers, as well as other things. It’s also great for wallpaper. I…

From the Irish Times: “The YouTube clip shows a male Bornean orang-utan, named Jorong, careening over rocks at the edge of his enclosure where an injured moorhen chick flaps about…