Mary Robinette Kowal

When starting a new project, there’s always that concern that it’ll fail. So, getting a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly is huge. Here’s my favorite part of the review of Ghost Talkers:  Kowal’s depiction of spiritualism is richly imagined, and its complications and consequences are thoughtfully considered. Her depiction of the Western Front includes diverse

After a hiatus, Lee the Puppet is back to answer your questions. In Episode Three, Lee answers these questions. Josh Storey – When an audio book is being recorded, how much does the author collaborate with the director and/or narrator on the way dialog is read? Jonathan Boynton – How do you figure out character motivations?

It’s now two weeks after my nasal airway surgery and most of the healing has happened at this point. So far? Breathing is amazing. AMAZING. I’ve still got some swelling and stitches (inside my nose!) It’ll apparently take about two months for everything to finish settling, but from here on the changes will be subtle.

This is a small thing. You can write a letter. It’s also a huge thing. You can write a letter. See, our government representatives still respond more to letters than the do to emails, Facebook, or Twitter hashtags. I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do those, too, but there’s this other thing you can do.

Rob took this photo. a) I had no idea he was in the room. b) I had no idea that both cats were on me. I’m losing most of my saving throws against napping, and I’m fine with that. Smells are more vivid, which will be great when I’m cooking, but less exciting around the cats’

I had surgery on Friday to correct a deviated septum, turbinate hypertrophy, and collapsed nasal valves. I’ve been posting pictures of myself in the recovery process, because I think medicine is neat. But you — you decided that it would be funny to make a joke that I had black eyes because my husband hit

I am home! There is grapefruit-peppercorn sorbet. My surgeon pulled the nasal tampons out and that is so much more accurate a name that rocket. Like… wow. I could immediately breathe better than I could before I went in and that was while I still have swelling and a brief nosebleed. (Totally normal.) Seriously. I

Yesterday’s surgery seems to have gone well. I still have bi-lateral rhino-rockets in my nose and am really, really looking forward to having them removed. I’ve been told that they are called nose-tampons. Having googled, yes. Yes, that’s a really good description of them. That is, in fact, exactly what they are. And I’m really

It sounds like a rocket part. It’s actually a thing that’s happening in my nose. Nose rocketry! Well… no. It’s like this. My husband noticed that I was getting out of breath when we were walking. My heart rate wasn’t elevated, but I was breathing through my mouth. The right side of my nose just

Kids Need to Read is a great charity started by Nathan Fillion. Tonight, at Phoenix Comicon, I’m participating in a fundraiser for them. Other authors are raffling off ARCs and things like that. Me? I’ll write a story for you, on demand. Here’s how it works. You donate $40 to the charity, and then you

So, last year, the Writing Excuses gang put together this writing workshop and we held it on a cruise ship. Why? Because it turns out that when we were pricing venues this was the best deal. No, seriously. We’d been doing them at my parents’ house and people were staying at a Best Western a

I’m judging the FutureScapes Writing contest, which has a goal that I’m really excited about.  It’s the idea that art can change the world, and so it invites submissions for stories with the goal of changing the future. “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”          -Oscar Wilde Looking at

I’d like your opinion. I do this thing, sometimes, where I take a typewriter and write one page flash fiction on demand. At the opening of Volumes BookCafe, I wrote five during the course of the evening. They’re fun, light, and take me about fifteen minutes. That’s a photo of one of them. (I’ll post