This afternoon, I drove down to the Scholes twins’ 1st birthday party. In case you haven’t seen them, those are some cute, cute little girls. It was a great deal of fun and a nice break. I got to catch up with Harold Gross and Brenda Cooper, which was lovely. I had to leave the […]
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The fellow who is doing the special effects for the Shades of Milk and Honey book trailer is a BAFTA award winning special effects supervisor who I know from Lazytown. Remo Balcells has worked on films like The Fifth Element and Final Fantasy. He’s currently doing FX for Hawaii Five-0. Tonight he emailed to say
Well, I had a lovely day today. Konrad Walewski is in town and we’ve been hanging out doing things while he’s here. He mentioned that he needed to interview a writer for the Polish edition of F&SF and I instantly volunteered to drive him there. Why, you might ask, was I so eager to drive
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I was talking with a friend of mine and he said that my blog read like “Mary’s Greatest Hits,” because I never talk about the things that go wrong. This surprised me since most of my best puppetry stories are of shows that go horribly, horribly wrong. But he’s right. When I talk about television
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I’ve just received word that Shades of Milk and Honey is turning up in some bookstores already. The official release date isn’t until next Tuesday. August 3rd. Five days. But since they’ve shipped, some bookstores go ahead and stock them as soon as the box arrives. Not that I’m eager to see it or anything,
Can you spot Shades of Milk and Honey in the wild? Read More »
Awesome! My friends at the Puppet Kitchen were on ABC news this week. Check it out. See! Saying things like “Pass me an eyeball” is perfectly natural.
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Today I headed over to my modiste’s to try on the muslin for the green spencer that I’m having made to wear at the Shades of Milk and Honey Launch Party in Raleigh. She had used the lining of the spencer to create the muslin. The fit was pretty good right from the start, which
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Look! My author copies of Shades of Milk and Honey arrived today. We are also eight days away from the release day of August 3rd. Not that I’m counting. To celebrate, I’m going to give away two signed copies of Shades of Milk and Honey. How do you win? Between now and August 1st post
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For your amusement, here is one of my research tools for Shades of Milk and Honey. It’s very handy if you are doing anything set in the Regency. Also, I find it interesting how many vulgarities are just everyday speech now.
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I have arrived safely home, with my luggage and the contents of my luggage intact. And only twenty-four hours after I’d planned to get here. The cats are frantic with loneliness and Marlowe is doing a great deal of chasing invisible demons to prove his affection for me. Rob is still away at IPNC so
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While I’m in transit again, here’s an amusing comic about Miss Austen. It’s a Large Book. (Hat tip to Todd Sanders)
An amusing comic about Miss Austen Read More »
Lest you feel bad for me and my delayed flight yesterday, allow me to show you one of the views from my bedroom window at the lake cottage. The bedroom I was in had windows on three sides, all of which looked out on the lake. To say that it was relaxing doesn’t take into
Leaving the cottage and on my way back to PDX. Again. Read More »
Due to the delayed flight, I am once again ensconced on the porch of Merrie Haskell’s lake house and working on revisions to Glamour in Glass. While I am thus engaged, allow me to present to you Emma Thompson’s speech at the Golden Globes when she pretended to be Jane Austen.
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I’m at the airport in Grand Rapids and my flight is delayed by an hour and a half. This means that I’ll miss my connection in Minneapolis and there’s not another flight that will get me home tonight. Or rather, there is but it’s over-sold by seven people so they can’t book me on it.
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My most grateful thanks to Miss Ellis for sharing this video with me.
Jane Austen’s Fight Club Read More »