I’m delighted to announce that Cosmos has posted my story “For Solo Cello, op. 12” live and free on their website. This originally appeared in Issue 13 of COSMOS back in March 2007. His keys dropped, rattling on the parquet floor. Julius stared at them, unwilling to look at the bandaged stump where two weeks […]
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The folks over at Senses Five Press are planning a party at World Fantasy and want to decorate with subway maps. Check out the deal they are offering. If you send me a subway map, I’ll send you a free issue of Sybil’s Garage. If you live outside of the US, to compensate for higher
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I just typed “end” on “The Bride Replete” and it’s only 13742 words long. That’s a mere 5742 words longer than I was aiming for. I have some holes to patch which currently contain notes in handy [brackets] and then massive trimming. It’s unlikely that I will get it anywhere close to 8000 words, but
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Solaris has purchased my short story “Evil Robot Monkey” for The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2. I couldn’t be more pleased. I had a long chat with the Solaris gentlemen, George Mann and Christian Dunn, at Readercon about robot monkeys. It was bar conversation, but I just happened to have this short
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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest is having a Halloween raffle. Check it out. You’ll find nothing but TREATS here, guaranteed! Here’s a chance to fill your pillowcase with all sorts of goodies, including rare items from some of the biggest names in the field. For only $1.00 per ticket. And, a percentage of all
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Ye sly whiskered dog, ye can pre-order yer copy o’ Shimmer today. What better way to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day? I’ll tell you what’s better: It’s a double-issue. 136 pages of piratical fiction. — I also have to say that I loved working with Sean Markey on making this trailer. He created
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Michele Lee at Tangent Online reviews Talebones, #35, Summer 2007. About my story, she says: “Death Comes But Twice†by Mary Robinette Kowal is a style of horror (with a spike of science fiction) not seen often today. Obviously rooted in classics like Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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I often listen to Escape Pod as I’m working, but it goes in fits and starts depending on if I’m working on language based things or not. Lately, I’ve had a lot of work that doesn’t use the verbal part of my brain and the short fiction at Escape Pod is perfect. I’ve just finished
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Last week I spent an enjoyable hour being interviewedby Susan Marie Groppi for Strange Horizons‘ podcast. Susan was my editor for “Bound Man,” in Twenty Epics and also “Portrait of Ari” for Strange Horizons. In this episode of the Strange Horizons podcast, editor Susan Marie Groppi spoke with Mary Robinette Kowal. Mary is a puppeteer
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Golly, it’s a banner week for reviews. Joe Sherry, at Adventures in Reading, reviewed “Horizontal Rain.” Here’s a snippet. Horizontal Rain is a reasonably short short-story, fewer than 2700 words, but Mary Robinette Kowal packs a good deal of story into those 2700 words. Confusion, fear, fairy tales, trolls, death, driving, construction, meetings, phone calls,
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Lisa Mantchev, who I adore, posted this on her blog in regard to the vice President of SFWA’s recent action I want to know what it’s going to take to organize a new Genre Writers’ Guild. One that promotes the work of the up-and-coming writer as well as the old guard. One that recognizes the
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Look! There’s a sale on Best of Apex Digest 2006, which has a story by me in it. If you’ve been wanting to try more short fiction, but aren’t up to committing to a subscription, this should be a good sampler. Enjoy eight of the best stories published by Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest
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Charles Stross has some excellent advice on Readings. Check it out. A friend, who recently sold her first novel, wrote to me paraphrased: “help I’m supposed to be giving a reading from my work at a science fiction convention. What do I do?” Readings, like signings, are one of the epiphenomena of writing: not a
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Douglas Cohen has posted about having a subscription drive for short fiction genre magazines. Now, working on a small press magazine, Shimmer, I certainly support the idea of wanting more people to buy our magazine, but I think that the subscription drive is a matter of looking at the symptoms rather than the cause. The
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Here I am, in the middle of laying out the Art Issue of Shimmer and stumble across this lovely, lovely review of our Winter issue. Do you like fables? Fairy tales? Mythic Realism? Writers like Patricia McKillip, Charles DeLint, and Neil Gaiman at his most fantastical? Then you’ll like Shimmer, I believe. It is a
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