Paul Dini will know why.   Green Lantern is one of the comics I’ve loved best all my life. During my childhood it became a “foundation myth”, a storyline that…

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…

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…

  I had an email from my NY agent about this late yesterday, and all the principals are agreed on the main details, so I don’t see any particular point in…

Once upon a time, the King of the Greek gods, Zeus, was getting ready to cheat on his wife again. His latest target was a beautiful mortal girl named Io, whose resistance he’d…

There are these ten pounds that I keep getting rid of and that keep coming back. It’s sheer carelessness on my part: I get unconscious about what I eat for…

ETA, May 31, 1315 UTC: Due to our Shopify facility inadvertently being set for the wrong time zone, the 20% discount offer described below terminated too early. So we’ve reset…

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,…

First of all, thanks to those of you who’ve dropped by the new Ebooks Direct store to check things out since we opened it. One of the first things that…

Our good friend Torsten Dewi has just launched a redesign / restyle on his popular German blog, Wortvogel.de, where he posts trenchant and intelligent film reviews, slices of local life,…

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…

The long-suffering Lee the Tech Lady and I have been working with Zen Cart at the DianeDuane.com online shop for almost  six months now, and the reviews are, well, kind…

In the “Not sure I’d want it in my house, but nonetheless it’s interesting / cool” department: Duffy London is doing a line of fairy-tale(ish)-oriented furniture. Or rather, one fairy…

Just another day in the great Long Room of Trinity’s famous library. Except for once it wasn’t being “borrowed” without credit by George Lucas. Having earlier stopped in at Áras…

Peter has been doing some genealogical research over the last couple of weeks, and has found out some unusual things about his family that none of us expected. For one…

I was going through Twitter this morning on the phone before getting out of bed, and suddenly started wondering what all the “rapture” stuff I was seeing was about. Normally when…

  Over the last couple of months I’ve been rereading Rudyard Kipling‘s Kim, on and off. (This is part of a longstanding self-challenge to read everything that the man has…

So some of you may remember that a little while ago I moved A Wind from the South from its free-at-website-only status to wider availability at Amazon, this time actually…

For those of you who like a good focused nature documentary every now and then: this is super. NHK World has aired this once already today — it’s two hours…

It’ll be ready to go up at the DianeDuane.com ebookstore in a few days, and will be available at the Kindle Store a day or so after that. (Please note:…

We were in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland some years back when we wandered into a cooks’ supply shop. (Something neither of us can be prevented from doing wherever we…

I was checking on something over at EuropeanCuisines.com and found (via Woopra) that someone from Belgium was looking at a recipe. Hardly an unusual occurrence by itself, as EC.com is…

Yes, Uncle Arthur is muttering under his breath tonight. Again. I’m mentioning this at all because the Porterhouse has been a favored hangout of ours since it first opened in…

…Just a little late. But I didn’t know this commercial existed until this morning: Peter caught it last night while doing some late-night viewing.