Why Fantasy? Today Calumet Editions published my young adult novel, THE BEECHWOOD FLUTE . Some might ask why after seven books focused ...

It's so long since I've posted on this blog that I've practically forgotten how. Still, here I go. Today, British Member of ...

Most readers of this blog know that a year and a half ago I joined with three friends to start Tumblehome Learning , a company that seeks to...

Another week, another mass shooting in America. This time it was children who were slaughtered.  Another disturbed young male, suicidal,...

I met Kit Ward when she was an acquiring editor at Little, Brown.  She had just read the manuscript of my novel Tulku , and through ...

What is a malapropism?  It's a form of speech error named after the comic character Mrs. Malaprop in Richard Sheridan's 18th century...

For my first ten cool facts about ice, visit this post . And now, on to six more! 1. There are a couple of places in the world-- Queb...