Tomorrow’s one of the big days in the marketing year for anybody who (like us) sells ebooks. But this year, for many of us, there’s a nervous feeling about the…

…or in other words, it’s February 2, 2016. The book has its own website, as well as its own Tumblr and Twitter: you can follow its progress there.

It was seeing this thing that got me thinking about the subject. …WTF? RT @pattymo: Who will answer for this crime pic.twitter.com/u0h3jqCfIh — Diane Duane (@dduane) September 17, 2014 What…

That’s my year made. From the Online OED: phaser, n. 2. Science Fiction. A weapon producing destructive laser or similar beams (of variable phase); spec. a (usually hand-held) device whose…

The formal acceptance of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers’ Grand Master / Lifetime Achievement Award at SDCC 2014: I want first of all to thank the IAMTW for…

…even though I won’t be there. (Work is keeping me home, unfortunately, as well as a medical issue or two. ) This is the locus of interest at SDCC 2014……

Just a quick note about this. We ship all signed hardcovers and paperbacks by registered mail / post to prevent losses in transatlantic shipping. (There were a whole lot of…

Poet, novelist, playwright, translator, essayist, Holmesian: there is a lot to know (and like) about Dorothy L. Sayers. This I didn’t know, though: her first writing that made a real…

2014-07-19 through 2014-07-19

In the “Something’s A Bit Wrong With This Sentence” department…: “A Seattle man burnt down his house on Tuesday after trying to kill a spider that he found in the…

So last night I was working late-ish, and it occurred to me that this would be a good time to bake some bread. In particular I wanted to test the…

The song that contains the line above was originally famous for having come from the great Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Carousel, and is now much better known on this side…

lileks: Oh God the tables have turned please do not put me in your pants I am sorry I put you in my pants   I think I’d probably better…

lileks: “Fargin’ Unicorns get adopted by the Gays, but I’m sitting around here all day waiting for the bisexuals to ring me up and say they need a mascot.”  …

(via anartificialaspidistra🙂 Hi Diane, I’ve been a fan for a long time. Read the YW books, Wounded Sky, and eventually the Door Into… books staring when I was a kid…

…For those who may be interested: This is a Mexican recipe that Peter devised from one originally intended to use a whole pork roast. It’s really good. The last time…

Once long ago in the land of Khem, there lived a King who greatly desired a son. For long and long no son was vouchsafed to him, but he would…

Crowds retrieve 100,000 books dumped in skip Almost 100,000 new books were dumped into a skip outside a Derry bookshop today after the receiver ordered that the contents of the…

Those of you who may remember the above image from a week and a half or so ago might be curious about how things have been progressing. Briefly, not real…

And they’re good.  🙂 From Phebusa.fr: “I devoured this book in two days…” Pour terminer, je préciserai que j’ai dévoré ce livre en deux jours (j’accuse aussi les chapitres trop…

I’ve felt sorry for Amtrak for a long time. Economic pressures and the unique problems of any rail system based inside the US (where automobile travel has too long been…

06/1/1854 Happy birthday, old friend. Your creator was the first person I consciously took as a tutor in the art of structuring fiction. I didn’t do it because I loved…

Sometimes you want something a little different from the usual run of Christmas cookies. These fit the bill nicely. Germany has a long tradition of spice-based cookies / bikkies, the…

If you’re in the Netherlands (I don’t say Holland, because you might be in the Netherlands without necessarily being in Holland) and you’ve ordered coffee after a meal or a…