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November 14, 2017

Dave Gemmell’s Brownies

Dave Gemmell's Brownies

The recipe isn’t his, but I think of him whenever I make it (which is way too often. Not in terms of thinking about David Gemmell, but in terms of…


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Published on November 14, 2017 07:18

November 9, 2017

Charlemagne and the Snake

Charlemagne and the Snake

#FolkloreThursday at Twitter is looking a little serpentine today, and for some reason this old Swiss folktale came to mind. A good while back, more or less around the end…


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Published on November 09, 2017 16:35

October 16, 2017

Ophelia

(Ex) Hurricane Ophelia

It’s going to be an interesting day. (I leave aside the local confusion over whether to properly refer to this storm “Hurricane Ophelia” or “Ex-Hurricane Ophelia.” Never mind: here she…


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Published on October 16, 2017 03:51

September 12, 2017

Len Wein

Len Wein

So it’s Sunday afternoon and I’m going through my Twitter feed and suddenly I see one of those Tweets you really, really don’t want to ever see… and it’s already…


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Published on September 12, 2017 11:59

August 18, 2017

Re-covery

Landscape rough for new Wizard's Holiday cover

The revised New Millennium Editions of the “primary continuity” Young Wizards novels started coming out at our Ebooks Direct store in 2011.* The project took a while to complete, in…


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Published on August 18, 2017 06:45

August 12, 2017

15-19 August, 2019

The Dublin Convention Centre and the River Liffey

I’m ridiculously happy to let everybody know that I’ve been chosen to be one of the Guests of Honour at the 2019 World Science Fiction Convention in Dublin, Ireland. To…


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Published on August 12, 2017 00:36

August 8, 2017

“Young Wizards: Lifeboats”: files with new covers on their way

YOUNG WIZARDS: LIFEBOATS cover crop

For those of you who may have copies of this already, just a heads-up for you. We’re giving YW: Lifeboats a new cover so that it’ll no longer look identical…


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Published on August 08, 2017 03:21

July 17, 2017

That Feeling When

That Feeling When

…you’re tidying up some paperwork and you stumble across a (1999) printout of a novel proposal that you had completely forgotten about, including outlining, notes, and detailed timelining for the…


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Published on July 17, 2017 03:28

July 12, 2017

THE DOOR INTO STARLIGHT: an update

The Door into Starlight

I got a few more of those plaintive emails the other day inquiring about whether I thought I was ever going to finish this series… and so it occurred to me…


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Published on July 12, 2017 08:27

July 2, 2017

The Menu from Big Nick’s

Image from the front cover of the Big Nick's menu

I posted about Big Nick’s a couple of weeks ago on Facebook, and having had some requests from people to see the full menu — here it is. Looking at…


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Published on July 02, 2017 04:03

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