I’ve been busy handling work at home while recovering from a back injury, so I’ve left this posting a little late. That being the case, let me be brief. The…
I wouldn’t say that Forbes would be daily reading for me, but when Google tells me I’ve been namechecked there, I pay attention. Here’s the article: Fifty Shades of Green:…
It’s such an overused term, these last few years. It was originally a technique for achieving a fuller view of the world-as-it-is and a deeper sense of one’s place in…
There’s a widespread headcanon among the writers of Sherlock fanfic (and others in the fandom) that Mycroft Holmes — possibly as an associated phenomenon of an old or longstanding weight…
Mycroft’s Delight: the fanfic
Every now and then I’ll be minding my own business and doing my work, and then suddenly, without warning, the urge to commit fanfic will strike. Mostly I ignore it…
I’m about to have a strange conversation with Peter when he wakes up. DD: That yellow towel in the bathroom? Put it in the wash. PM: What? Why? It was…
People who follow my Twitter feed know that it’s pretty eclectic, but there are some themes that repeat besides science fiction and fantasy: art (especially lithography, Art Deco and Art…
RAETIAN TALES: A WIND FROM THE SOUTH now in paperback!
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…
Some years back, maybe four or five years ago, I was doing a lot of cake baking and realized that I needed a tube cake pan besides the gugelhupf pans…
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…
The Adventure of the Dexter Eye
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…
For World Pasta Day: “A Dinner in Belgravia”
“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…