Mary Robinette Kowal

This weekend I went to the Oregon Regency Society’s annual picnic at Pittock Mansion. I will freely admit that I started attending last year for research. I wanted to wear the clothes and try the dancing and talk to people who knew the period. I discovered on the very first evening that I really liked

Sometimes, when I’m writing I use brackets to keep myself from wandering off to research something Right Then. This results in things like the following sentence from my WIP. The upstairs parlour was [description of a nice Victorian room]. or sometimes, I just don’t want to think about it because I’ll lose the rhythm of

After a relaxing morning, I’m heading back from Seattle. Based on a picture of this pet, which author was I visiting?

Today I taught my first class via Google Hangouts and thought I’d share what I learned. This is a workshop that I teach on reading aloud and I’ve done it often enough that I felt like it was a good test case for the hangouts since I know what “normal” is for it. Registration —