So after various struggles and craziness the YoungWizards.com site finally has its WordPress install running for all to see, and the old Drupal install is packed away, and I can…

One of the annoying things about being a (midlist) writer in this world we live in is that you have to take care of (or have to have taken care…

It’s the best kind of day, and I barely know how to begin describing how I feel. Star Trek is fifty, and I’m sixty-four… and I’ve been lucky enough to…

So it’s been one of those weeks in a lot of ways (got the annual Autumn Cold a bit early: annoyingly delayed getting home from the Discworld Convention in the…

I have a soft spot for this particular cookie (as this post from some years back should probably make plain). The other evening I got the yen to make some…

So here’s a casual question for the group mind. It has to do with PC graphics cards. The card presently in my desktop machine is a Radeon HD 5800. When…

This recipe is kind of a favorite around here, so this morning I thought I’d put a copy of it on the blog for others who might like it. (Though…

I wasn’t sure what to call it at first, but that’s what it is: something a little different at the Young Wizards end of things, falling under the “Interim Errantry”…

Caught one quiet evening while passing through: Zurich HB (Hauptbahnhof / main railway station) in late January, 2015…

Just a quick note to let people know that we’ll be updating / upgrading the theme on “Out of Ambit” over the next couple/few days, so the layout situation may…

I see that Bill O’Reilly has taken it on himself to enlighten the present First Lady regarding her assertion that slaves built the White House. “Yes, but they were well…

If you’re someone who has a lot of books, you know how this goes. You’ve got a favorite volume, one dealing with a subject covered in no other books you…

A couple of times each year we go through our mailing lists at MailChimp and shake them out a little bit to make sure they’re current. The spring cleaning pass…

Since the progress of things at Mark Reads has now taken us well past the point where this material is spoilery, I thought people might like to see a copy…

That’s today! (As Himself has reminded me.) And theoretically this is the day I get to take off from work to celebrate… but normally when I make such declarations I…

It’s way beyond a pleasure to announce that Peter and I will be joint Guests of Honour this October at Octocon 2016, the national Irish science fiction convention. It’s the…

It’s all spelled out here at the CrossingsCon web page. Sometimes local work interferes hard enough that it becomes clear there’s just not going to be an escape, no matter…

I’ve been waiting for this for a long time… and the time’s finally come. Mark Oshiro, far-famed medianaut and proprietor of MarkReads.net, will on March 22 start a truly amazing…

It’s my great pleasure to let everyone know that a Games Wizards Play audiobook will be coming out from Recorded Books in the relatively near future. Recorded Books has been…

The weather has been utter crap and yet another of this year’s named storms is passing over Ireland. Yet today it is nonetheless Spring. And needless to say, outside this…

From my point of view, this is one of the few perks an author gets that’s worth anything. A month before pub date… I get mine first. It’s real now.…

It was a great pleasure to do this podcast for the 365 Days of Astronomy some years back. Considering how close we are to the Winter Solstice*, I thought I’d…

I’ve got a question, and I’m throwing it open to the general readership because answering it at the moment is beyond my competence. The Young Wizards series often gets compared…

ETA: The Advent calendar is now shut… maybe until next year. But a compiled version of the whole Calendar is available below… Every day, from now until Christmas, behind a…