Per a notification from Lee the Tech Lady: “Just a quick note to let everyone know: our ISP is going to be upgrading the software underlying all the YW.com sites…

  (back to pages 48-56) [scrippet]INT. NEARBY OLD LONDON PUB — NIGHT A quiet place, leaded-glass windows, dark wood paneling, worn plank floor, empty: “fruit machine” video-gambling console DINGING forlornly…

Forget the bunnies. Even the famous gold ones with the bell (which I don’t despise). Here’s something different: a hen and chicks from BienManger.com in France. Meanwhile, I have no…

  (back to pp 43-47) [scrippet]INT. RESTAURANT — EVENING A nice restaurant. Joy and Harry are in the middle of the meal. An empty bottle of wine is taken away…

It ain’t cheap. But I wonder if this is one of those things we’re going to see come down in price as the affiliated technologies become cheaper, and as more…

  (back to pp 38-42) [scrippet]EXT. PICCADILLY — DAY Joy and Gunter have finished lunch. They EXIT the cafe, walking down Piccadilly toward the Circus. GUNTER No, we don’t have…

 (back to pp 32-37)  [scrippet]INT. EARL’S COURT COMPUTER SHOW — DAY A big convention-center space, full of crazed computer people selling things to each other as fast as they can.…

…The “ping” being the right-hand earpiece of my glasses made when it snapped. The “Auuuughhh” being the sound I made as I just barely kept them from falling off my…

  Back to pp. 26-31  [scrippet]INT. ORMONDE HOTEL BREAKFAST ROOM — MORNING Joy eats her breakfast while reading the paper. George passes by her table, purposely “walking small” and trying…

Over the course of Saturday and Sunday we’ll be trying out some new themes. Please be patient with us, as the layout and look of the blog will be changing…

Squeaky practices the stink-eye “Recovering at home,” I guess, is the best phrase to use. He looks a little peculiar, since they partially shaved both his forelegs — one for…

  (back to pp. 18-25)  [scrippet]INT. ORMONDE HOTEL LOBBY DESK — NIGHT Joy’s finger pressing down hard on the RING HERE FOR SERVICE bell, with the associated strident RINGING. After…

  (back to pp. 12-17)  [scrippet]INT. HARRODS FOOD HALL — DAY The two of them wander through the place, among the painted tiles and displays of food. JOY So if…

  (back to pages 7-11) [scrippet]INT. COLLINS’S HOTEL ROOM — DAY It’s minuscule, decorated in best British ’70’s style: cheap wood paneling, ancient wall-mounted phone and pushbutton radio, tiny built-in…

  (Back to pages 1-6)   [scrippet]INT. HEATHROW MAIN CONCOURSE — MORNING Joy and Harry have collected their luggage. Joy waits while Harry goes through their carry-on luggage and comes…

Indignant sick kitty is indignant… Just a quick thank-you to those who’ve tweeted and emailed over the weekend to ask how Squeaky is. For the last few months he’d become…

This screenplay has been gestating for a good while — one of those stories that’s been niggling and niggling at me to be told. Like all too many of my…

I’ve been receiving some complaints about errors in the Young Wizards US/Canadian (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) edition ebooks over the last few months, primarily having to do with typos and scanning…

Here are two more wallpapers for those who might be interested in DL’ing them. Once again, these were produced in the wonderful Terragen 2.2. The location is in Syrtis Major,…

But I can’t have one until I make some of this. Swiss “French Dressing” 1 tablespoon salt Grind or two of fresh black pepper 1 tablespoon mustard (ideally a smooth…

Just going through the blogroll and revisiting some old favorites preparatory to cleaning the present list up. One I’ve always liked is “Rubber Slippers in Italy”. Here Rowena posts about…

For those of us who work with wizards, the world is a little shadowier today. I can’t say that I knew Diana well — except in the way that any…

  For those who’re interested: the release of the AWoM paperback is scheduled for May 2, 2011, and you can preorder it now. In the hotly anticipated ninth installment of…

After the posting that went up yesterday on the unavailability of digital versions of the Young Wizards books in Canada, we had a really interesting response in the comments… Hi…