There were a series of snafus at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that kept these books from all being out at once… but all the outstanding issues have now been resolved, and…

Over the past few days we’ve had a bunch of people ask via email or my Twitter account if they can still subscribe to the project — either because they…

(Note: I thought this posted yesterday… but it turns out it was only saved as a draft. Apologies, everybody.) Friends, This is to let the world in general know that…

Just got my author’s copy yesterday. The anthology features stories about a suburban U.S. high school catering to young wizards and witches, and my story “The House” bats cleanup in…

And a lot of boinging. (Courtesy of Nothing To Do With Arbroath.)

Can things get any dumber? Don’t answer that question.  “There are millions of people around this world praying to their God — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that [McCain’s]…

With the world markets doing what they’re doing at the moment, it’s no wonder that past crashes and bubbles are being discussed a lot on the Intarwebz. The Tulip Bubble…

Paris Hilton consults Martin Sheen.    

Fortunately for me, when I’m plastered I routinely lose the ability to type — at least without committing so many typos that I simply give up on the project until…

This morning’s best read… and about time somebody said it. Brava.

Apropos of absolutely nothing (except that I want to know where I put this in a couple of weeks, and my bookmark files are beyond congested at the moment): A…

As a US expat I have the delightful opportunity to vote by mail in national and state elections (for expats they use your last state of residence, which for me is California), and…

Oh dear. Yesterday the Archbishops of Canterbury and York condemned London-based brokers who indulged in short selling as “bank robbers and asset strippers” and accused them of “generating unimaginable wealth…

Well, not too far beyond, we hope.  I’ll sure be watching this on the lunchtime news… (ETA:   Postponed to Sept. 26 due to cloud / bad weather in France.)

I’m working on it right now and hope to have it up at the weekend. Apologies for the delay: there have been some home / family issues this last month…

This is so neat!

Thank you, Aaron. [scrippet] OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice. BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot…

(sigh) It’s hard to ignore the political noise right now, but as it gets noisier and each side spins the other one (or itself) as hard as it can, I prefer to…

(If you can’t see the YouTube video embedded below, go here.) (courtesy of Mark Evanier’s news from me) Tags: presidential, candidate, if+only, palin

Finally… After four months of deliberating, Judge Robert Patterson has ruled that the H.P. Lexicon infringes J.K. Rowling’s copyright in the Harry Potter series. The decision proper is here (.PDF…

Very unwell. And apparently getting more so. I’m starting to work my way through all the usual stages to make sure of where the problem is — replacing the monitor driver, installing…

For those of you on the European side of the water who haven’t seen it as yet: SciFi UK  is showing Sword of Xanten (this being the goofy name that Channel…

Just reading this article gives me entirely too many ideas for SF stories having to do with scary possible gene therapies…  A study of Swedish twin brothers found that differences…

My nominee for this year’s Too Long: Don’t Read award… This autumn, according to the newspaper Libération, 676 new books will be published [in France], 466 of them written in French,…