Mary Robinette Kowal

How to watch the Retro Hugos tonight, + my WorldCon schedule

Tonight at 8:00pm in London, I’ll be hosting the Retro Hugos with Robert Shearman. There’s an opening number. A 12 piece band. Sound effects. And a dress based on one from 1939. You can watch the entire thing streaming at http://www.ustream.tv/hugo-awards. I am spending most of today in rehearsal until my hair and makeup team arrives.

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Avoiding the paper-cut — Using language that matches the culture

I’m in the process of doing the language check on Of Noble Family, and have a little joke that I’m in the process of reworking. I thought that you’d like to see why I pay attention to language. Jane worked the button free and felt a certain subtle shift in Vincent’s posture. “And attend to my husband’s

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Why I’m spending today swapping out the dialect in my novel

My project today is replacing all the dialogue spoken by Antiguan characters in Of Noble Family with dialogue rewritten by Antiguan and Barbudan author Joanne Hillhouse. Let me explain why I’m doing this. I grew up in the American South — specifically the Piedmont of North Carolina and East Tennessee. The reason I’m being specific about

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