For the Retro Hugos ceremony, I’m wearing a dress based on one from 1939, the year of the first WorldCon. I want hair to match so… Do you know a hairdresser in London who would be available on Thursday 14 August to come to the con (ExCel, London Docklands) and put my hair up? Something […]
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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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The short form of this post is that you should go back Uncanny Magazine on Kickstarter. The long form is that I’m seriously excited about Uncanny, a new magazine created by Lynne and Michael Thomas. For full disclosure, Lynne and Michael are some of my dearest friends, so I am not unbiased in my excitement about the magazine. Now,
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Last year, I hosted a guest post from Elise Matthesen about how to report harassment at a convention. It was useful and touched on an incident she had experienced by way of example. This is a follow up, which I think provides a representative example of why so many women who experience harassment don’t report it.
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If you wonder what a good marriage looks like, allow me to introduce you to my parents. Mom and Dad met in ballroom dance class. I asked Mom once, what first caught her attention about Dad, and she said, “He was the best dancer.” It’s something that they’ve continued doing, but if you spend any time
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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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So I’ve been tweeting some things about how I was working on a military SF. And how I was working on an audioplay. And how I realized that Alan Tudyk would be voicing one of the characters… But I haven’t been able to tell you what it was, until today. There’s a game — a
That military SF audio play I was working on? You can pre-order it now… Read More »
I’m mean, sure, his mother’s maiden name was Walker which just happens to be the maiden name of Jane Austen’s mother. And yes, my parents live at Robin’s Roost, which is the old Walker farm that just happens to have been in our family since the mid-1800s, but that’s total coincidence. Clearly, my family has a long
Also, my father definitely does not own a DeLorean. Read More »
So, the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, has unveiled a forensic recreation of Jane Austen. Allow me to tell you a story, that is purely fiction. Jane Austen was very ill in 1817 and her family called for the Doctor. Though this good gentlemen did his best, there was nothing that could be done for
To answer your questions– I am not a Time Lord. Read More »
I’m delighted that Audible will continue to produce the audiobooks for my novels. They have been very good about working with me to make the audiobooks what I want them to be. I get my choice of engineer, and they adjust the recording schedule around my crazy travel. Good people at Audible. So! You can
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You know when a mainstream book goes really big, and it’s something that uses SF tropes. Like, for instance, if someone writes a books with vampires and then acts as though urban fantasy doesn’t exist. Her fans read it. They say, “OMG! These vampires that she’s invented are the best thing ever!” And then they
A metaphor of cultural appropriation for SFF writers. Read More »
So yesterday, Mark Osier, the Music Guest of Honor at Westercon did a Writing Excuses themed concert. It was wonderful. All four of us were sitting there grinning like idiots during the show. We recorded it, so hopefully we can play the truly awesome song he wrote about the podcast for you. Real soon now.
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Westercon has been a blast so far. One of the highlights yesterday was listening to Bradley Voytek’s Guest of Honor presentation. He’s the science guest of honor and is a professor of neuroscience/cognitive science at USCD. Also, he’s written a book on the science of zombies. Awesome.
Today looks like it is shaping up to be good as well.
Here’s where to find me…
MRK’s Saturday schedule + Regency dancing! Read More »
I’m having a great time at Westercon in Salt Lake City, and here’s my schedule du jour. 10:00am – Guest of Honor: Mary Robinette Kowal, Salon D&E 1:00pm – Writing Excuses: w/Cory Doctorow, Salon D&E “Writing Excuses” is a local award-winning, nationally loved writing (FREE) podcast concerning writing. Join live tapings of this lively, instructive
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On Writing Excuses, we get a lot of questions that are related to how an idea becomes a story. So, we decided to demonstrate by doing podcasts that started with the raw idea going through the development process and then writing the fiction. We’ve put together a collection of four stories written by the members
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