Mary Robinette Kowal

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…

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

I know, I know… It wasn’t on the list of names we were considering, but allow me to explain why it fits her so well. Sadie is short for Sarah, which means “princess” or “lady.” You can see that she has already made her position clear in the household. Sadie Peterson Delaney was the head

Last week, I got a phone call from Peggy Rae Sapienza, who is one of the co-chairs of World Fantasy. She had a favor to ask. I like it when she asks me for favors. The one before this was, “Would you mind running the Whiskey tasting with Guy Gavriel Kay on the Wednesday before WFC starts?”

So far, I can tell you that she’s very affectionate, has tiny little vocalizations, and looooooooves being brushed. As in, she will lie down and air-knead while you are working on her. Her fur is a little scraggly because she’s had a rough go, but I think she’ll bounce back quickly.

She and Marlowe have seen each other, but not been allowed in the same room together yet. They both are curious, but we want to give her time to feel more comfortable with the space before tossing a giant at her.

I inherited three things from Grandma: two cast iron skillets, and her mother’s cookbook.  This morning, I made the eggless corn muffins. 1 1/8 cup flour 1 1/8 cups yellow corn meal 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 cups sour milk 1 tablespoon melted shorting. Sift

We had to say goodbye to our cat Harriet today. She was fine last week, but then lethargic over the weekend and when we took her in to the vet…  The decline was very fast. Rob and I spent last night cuddling with her. She was such a lap cat, that it was easy to think

Last year, I got a package in the mail that is the very definition of bitter-sweet. It was from Jay Lake. I say that it was bitter-sweet because I knew what it was. I’d heard Jay talk about this project. This is his genome, woven by Astrid Bear. More specifically, it’s the base pair sequence of