For those of you who’ve been waiting for a dead-tree version: A Wind From The South is available online at last! You can get it here from Amazon.com. (A Kindle…

In 2010 or thereabouts, a tiny little cookbook came to us via Peter’s Mum and immediately became a household favorite. It was published in 1903 for what was the first…

Each day from the first to the twenty-fifth of December 2015, the Advent calendar based at this page over at the Young Wizards: Interim Errantry site showed scraps of previously-unheard…

Yes, well, so it does. But all the same, when the line came up in a mid-credits scene, I snorted. After the madness of the weekend and Tuesday and my…

I’d have preferred to call it The Adventure of the Sinister Eye because that sounds a lot cooler, but that eye’s not the problem today. (For a change.) I’ve been…

I’ve been getting this ready for paperback* for a couple/few months now, and the only thing holding back the release has been the lack of a decent new cover. I…

So it’s Thanksgiving, and I’m more busy concentrating on cooking, and on what I have to be thankful for, than I want to be on the Black Friday / Cyber…

Covers. Even when they’re almost done they’re not that almost done… Here the mountain girl Mariarta dil Alicg and her great-stag Grugni look down at a bewitched Aletsch Glacier in…

Recorded Books’ production of Games Wizards Play, featuring (as always) the multi-role voice talent of the fabulous Christina Moore, has been completed, and the audiobook is now available here at…

Last year, or it might have been the year before last, our mailing lists at MailChimp (there’s one for our customers at Ebooks Direct [sure, go to the form at…

A little background first. Over the past few months, on and off, I’ve been reorganizing the household’s records-keeping system (which has all too often devolved into variants of the Put…

In the concrete, not the abstract. And just one incidence of it. …This was so wild and crazy that I had to make a post for it so I could…

So, some online and book(ish) news from this end of things. The Middle Kingdoms books have been needing a home of their own for a while… so now they’ve got…

So it’s dark and the power’s been off for hours, and I’m sitting downstairs reading fanfic by candlelight, and the wind is howling whooo, whooo outside, blowing leaves and twigs…

“Tegan…!” the Doctor said, sounding infinitely weary, and very annoyed. Tegan swallowed and turned toward him, prepared to take her medicine. The two of them stood in the TARDIS’s spacious…

October 25th rolls around and inevitably brings this with it. Of all the filmed versions, this is my favorite: half because of Branagh, half because of the wonderful film score…

My memory was jogged the other day when I was in the local grocery to pick up a couple of things and went down the baking-products aisle. In passing I…

This is about when it begins to happen. The first part of October can be surprisingly dulcet in lreland, seeming more like an extension of September than anything else. The…

A wizard’s Ordeal is intensely personal, and sometimes intensely dangerous… or not. Each Ordeal is tailored to the wizard who may pass it — or fail to pass. Each one…

Its name in German is “Durch Nacht zum Licht”, and though I’ve loved it for years I had no idea it was so famous. Some years ago, back when the…

This was going to get written in the next week or so anyway, but something — a couple of somethings, actually — dropped into my “ask box” on Tumblr. and…

Every now and then over at the Tumblr I wind up chatting with people about various aspects of writing, the writing business, and technique — usually under the “writing advice”…

So on the way back from the interview (oh yeah, here’s the podcast link) at Dublin City FM the other day (hi Clare, hi Kitchen Table folks!) I stopped in…

A bunch of you were asking for his recipe for this: so here it is. Believe it or not, I didn’t know he could do this kind of thing when…