Mary Robinette Kowal

I’m in the studio this week to record Of Noble Family. I’ve been wanting to show you what the recording process is like, but that requires getting permission from the author. Since I wrote this book… So, Dustin Anderson, my engineer/director, and I set up a Google On Air and recorded us doing the first chapter

Man… there were a ton of good suggestions, but the theme of winter kept coming up so… Here’s what’s outside the window.

What you have here is a drawing that I did on my new tablet. It’s actually been a really long time since I’ve drawn. I mean I was an art major, back in the day, but that was 25 years ago. But this new tablet, see, it has a touch sensitive stylus. So… I started

For those reading along with Ghost Talkers, Chapter 20 is up.  For everyone else, here is a random photo of the last day of our Christmas decorations. We keep our Christmas cards in the typewriters. Thrilling. I know.

Everyone has a story they want to tell, whether that’s from fiction or from part of your life. As I’ve been watching the news roll out from Ferguson and then in waves across the nation, I’ve been struck by how much grass-roots reporting has differed from the mainstream media narrative. While facts and data are important,

The latest chapter is up, and I was right about splitting the one I was working on in two. Which means I’m still two chapters from the end. Y’all are four chapters from the end, because of how far ahead of you I write. Meanwhile, for everyone else, here’s Sadie and Marlowe. I know you’re

For those of you reading along, I’ve posted the next chapter in Ghost Talkers. I just finished chapter 20 and am two or three chapters from the end. The reason I’m not quite sure is that the next chapter might split into two. We’ll see as I write it. If it gets unwieldy, I’ll find a

This week on Writing Excuses, we’re kicking off a new structure, a masterclass in fiction. Here, I’ll let you read the description. Season 10 begins! We wanted to do something different this year. Something special. As we brainstormed we kept returning to something a listener said years ago: “Writing Excuses is like a master class in writing

For those of you reading along, Chapter 17 is up. For everyone else, here is an entirely unrelated photo of Sadie’s pawprint in the snow. She headed for the front porch, put one foot down, and then thought better of it.