Shades of Milk and Honey

Captain Livingston has Beowulf’d and Chaucer’d “Shades of Milk and Honey”

My friend and Medieval scholar, Michael Livingston — for whom I named Captain Livingston — has written a post about the language in Shades of Milk and Honey. In it, he translates a few lines of the novel into  Old English and Middle English Anyway, at one point Mary and I were talking about voicing and language

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Salt Lake County Library Reader’s Choice Nominee: SHADES OF MILK AND HONEY

I got a lovely email today, letting me know that Shades of Milk and Honey is a SLC Reader’s Choice nominee.  You all know how much I adore libraries, so to be on this list is a real honor. The Salt Lake County Library System is the largest in Utah, serving over 650,000 residents, through 18

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Glamorous Jane | Books | Portland Mercury

Yay! Our hometime independent paper, The Portland Mercury not only reviewed Shades of Milk and Honey but also liked it! Wish Jane Austen’s subtle novels had a little more action, but fewer zombies? Well, Portlander Mary Robinette Kowal’s debut novel Shades of Milk and Honey is your new manna. In this age of Regency spinning,

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Shades of Milk and Honey is a 2011 Locus Award Finalists

Hurrah! Shades of Milk and Honey is one of the five finalists for the award for Best First Novel given by Locus.  I’m also happy to see so many books on there that I loved.  Yay! The Loving Dead, Amelia Beamer (Night Shade) The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit UK; Orbit US) Shades of

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The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent. reviews Shades of Milk and Honey

It is so very, very gratifying when someone gets what I was trying to do with the Austeninan aspect of Shades of Milk and Honey. Jane Austen famously described her novels — in a description subsequently often quoted to denigrate her work and that of other female writers, either overtly or through a backhanded head-pat —

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Listen to me on KBOO’s Between the Covers

Yesterday I went down to KBOO to talk to Marianne Barisonek her show “Between the Covers.”  Marianne was a delightful host and had clearly done her reading before I came in. I have a soft spot for KBOO because Willamette Radio Workshop has performed some audio theater there. It’s a great place to scream. Not

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San Francisco Chronicle’s best science fiction and fantasy books of 2010

The San Francisco Chronicle just posted their list of the Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2010.  Shades of Milk and Honey is on there! Kowal presents a tale of romance in Regency England with just a sprinkling of fantasy. Able to pull “glamour” out of the ether and create intricate tableaux that trick the

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