I have safely arrived in Troy, MI for Penguicon and will shortly turn in but I just had to tell you about this one thing. My plane was flown by Captain Kirk. Is there a better transportation to an SF convention? I think not.
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I’m flying out to Penguicon today and will be having a whole slew of fun-filled adventures while I’m there. I’m taking a red-eye so I won’t actually arrive until EARLY Friday morning. Here’s my schedule while I’m there. Friday Author Reading – 6pm Three authors for the price of one! Cherie Priest, Mary Robinette Kowal,
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When Rob and I moved into the apartment, we had a lot of boxes. I kept wishing that there was something I could do with them and, at some point, stumbled across this cardboard DIY cat scratching pad. Unlike most of the ones you see out there, this actually looked pretty stylish plus it was
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Well, this is amusing me so you might enjoy playing along too. In my post about my Profane Bio, Wiredwizard suggested that perhaps my name anagrammed into dirty words. And a procrastination tool emerged. My favorites of my name anagrams: Ably Work Marionette Warn My Literate Book Tor Abnormality Week Lo! Winemaker Brat Toy Monkey
Well this is bizarre. I was updating my bio on a website and got the warning that, “The text entered may not contain profanity.” Mary Robinette Kowal was the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo nominee for her story “Evil Robot Monkey.” Her short fiction has appeared in
Back in 1998 I spent several weeks as puppeteer on Elmo in Grouchland filmed in Wilmington, N.C. After the film wrapped and I was back in Portland, I got this package in the mail. An Elmo in Grouchland Cast and Crew camping chair. It was the perfect thing for going to the beach, except I
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While going through ye old portfolio shots, I found this one of me in college. Based on the puppet I’m holding, my guess is that I’m 20 or 21 here. So, two years before The Horror of the Glamour Shot. and 20 years before the new author photos. I’d gone into the studio to have
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My brother, bless his heart, wanted to give his girlfriend an Elvis garden gnome as a gag gift on her birthday and discovered that no one makes them. This was actually a little surprising. So he turned to me. To begin, I found an existing gnome in a position that would work for my needs.
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I was working on updating my portfolio today and chatting with someone who didn’t know that I built things. Puppeteer, yes. But the fact that, in my case, the word puppeteer also includes designing and building, in addition to performing, was new information. So, I thought I’d share my portfolio with you.
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I’m having a dress made. Not just any dress, I am having a gown that would be correct for the 1810s, which is when Shades of Milk and Honey is set, so that at the launch party in August I can be appropriately attired. To that end, I took myself to my modiste’s on Tuesday
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This might seem like a silly thing to be pleased about, but I’m now a LibraryThing author, which just means that I have an author page and get a shiny yellow badge next to my personal account. So, to celebrate, I’m giving away an ARC of Shades of Milk and Honey on LibraryThing. Basically, you
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So, you may have noticed that I have a thing about typewriters… Years ago I passed up a typewriter described as Ox-blood red and have regretted it ever since. When I made the Kowal Portable, I based it on the Ox-blood red machine. This is not the exact model typewriter that I passed on, but
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Rob and I went down to our storage locker to drop off some things and also so I could look for some juvenila to read at Wiscon. While there I opened a box of old photos and found the Glamour Shots that I had taken when I was 23. So for your amusement, compare and
The horror! A Glamour Shot of me at age 23. Read More »
Thanks to the help of loads of people, and after much consideration we got the selection narrowed down to two author photos. I finally decided that I’ll use both. How so? Simple, in Shades of Milk and Honey itself, people already know that I’m a writer so I decided to use one of the puppetry
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I’m staggered to learn that my novelette, First Flight, has made the Locus Awards short list. This is completely amazing to me and I’m so thrilled to be on there. “By Moonlight”, Peter S. Beagle (We Never Talk About My Brother) “It Takes Two”, Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three) “First Flight“, Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor.com 8/25/09)
“First Flight” is 2010 Locus Awards Finalist! Read More »