At NASFIC this year, I’ll be throwing the Shades of Milk and Honey launch party for which I had my regency ensemble made. It’s immediately following the Regency Ball, though not in the same location. We’re planning on having some Regency appropriate beverages and desserts, including my mother’s poundcake. If you are interested in coming […]
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Props master, Eric Hart, speaks intelligently about sharing knowledge. We do not invent things whole cloth out of the depths of our brains. Every idea we have is formed by making connections with all the experiences we have absorbed. Every book we read, play we watch, conversation we have, event we witness, song we hear
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As I was standing on the subway reading an ebook, I was looking at all the other things people were reading. I like doing that. It’s like a mini-social interaction without actually having to engage. If I’m reading a book, I’m generally excited about it and wouldn’t mind recommending it, just by showing off the
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There’s an interview with me at WIRED on Geek Dad where I talk about puppery, SFWA, Shades of Milk and Honey and writing in general. The article is in the Geeks of Note category, which is really kind of cool. Also extremely cool, io9 names Shades of Milk and Honey as one of their
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I’ll be one of the workshop instructors at NASFIC this year. Here are the details from Oz Drummond, the organizer of the workshop. Please pass the word along…ReConStruction is only a few weeks away now. There will be a writing workshop at the NASFiC in Raleigh, known as ReConStruction. There will be two, actually. Allen
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Sunday Readercon was fun but lower key than the other days. I read from Shades of Milk and Honey and made the decision to read it the way I do in the audio book. The error was that I didn’t warn the audience that it was what I would be doing so the sudden British
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My friend, Dario Ciriello, is starting a small press focused on new authors. Gardner Dozois said that the first volume, Panverse One was “… something different in today’s market, and definitely worth seeking out.” Dario has started a Kickstarter campaign to move the project to the next level for Panverse Two. He’s got 38 days
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Today was much more low-key. I spent the morning in the lobby trying to get caught up on some writing and business. As usual, I intended to go to panels and instead wound up spending most of my time in the hall talking to people. The keen hall conversation moment was when Stephanie Kwandrans gave
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In 2005 I attended Orson Scott Card’s Literary Bootcamp and wrote this story, “Salt of the Earth.” I’d gone to the workshop wanting to come out knowing how to construct a plot. This story is the first one where I felt like I understood plot. I sent it out and kept getting close. Editors would
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As always, Readercon is PACKED with people that I adore. I started out the day by hanging out with Paolo Bacigalupi and Ben Rosenbaum as I added the “dance cards” to the promo fans. We had a serious and fun conversation about shareable economies based on the fact that Paolo, Ben, and I all have
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I have a copy of Shades of Milk and Honey. An actual, physical copy of the finished hardcover. Of course, my phone chose this evening to have a card failure so I can’t actually take pictures with it, but Jim Freund snapped this one in the bar to prove that it exists. The reason I
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I’m heading up on the train to Readercon today. If you are looking for me, I’ll be attending Barry Longyear’s talk at 8:00 tonight. Imagine or Die 8:00 PM, Salon G Talk / Discussion (90 min.) A writer without a working imagination is stymied. We’ll take about the care and feeding of imagination, how to unleash
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I mentioned this earlier, but it was the 4th of July weekend and I think a lot of folks missed it. There’s a contest at Shareable.net based on the Typewriter Tritypch stories. Basically, I wrote most of the stories on typewriter but had to switch to computer for travel. I think this resulted in a
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As we’ve noted, it is hot here. If you are going to be at Readercon this weekend, come find me because I have a solution in hand. Allow me to introduce you to the Shades of Milk and Honey promo item. I brought 144 sandalwood fans with me, each with a dance card that has
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