After eating smoked salmon should one…
a) brush one’s teeth to remove the fishy flavour? b) eat a Thin Mint?
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KIRKUS gives VALOUR AND VANITY a starred review!
I should note that I’m really excited because this is my first starred review. Happy, happy dances! VALOUR AND VANITY [STARRED REVIEW!] Author: Mary Robinette Kowal Renowned glamourists Lord and Lady Vincent become the victims of an elaborate scam that leaves them in dire straits until they conceive of a daring strategy to strike back. After
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Conversation with my 11-year old niece
Niece: I like to wear sneakers with dresses. Me: That seems very practical. Niece: Yeah, because then you can run at formal occasions. Me: Oh… I don’t usually run at formal occasions. Niece: I call it taking advantage of my youth.
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Beta-readers wanted for SF short story
This is a 150 word short story. Yes. 150 words. That was the commission and it was harder than a 3000 word story. I need to turn it in today, so if you have a few minutes to read… Just drop your name in the comments on my site (and make sure your email address
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Protected: Draft: Expensive Tastes
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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SOLD! “Doctor Faustus” to Ellen Datlow’s THE DOLL COLLECTION
Ellen Datlow was one of the few editors whose name I knew before I started writing. I bought everything in the Fairy Tale series that she and Terri Windling edited and devoured The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. So, I’ve been wanting to sell Ellen a story for approximately twenty years. And finally, finally have. I’m
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Pictures of me at the Sesame Puppeteer Workshop!
Puppets! Yeah, I should have something deeply insightful to say here, but mostly it’s just that I’m excited because the Sesame Puppetry Workshop sent us photos of us today. photos by Zach Hyman
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My April and May events. Am I coming to your town?
Since Valour and Vanity is coming out on April 29th, I have a ton of travel scheduled for the next two months. April Chicago, IL Friday, April 25 – Sunday, April 27 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo http://www.c2e2.com/ Mary’s schedule May I’m particularly excited because I’ll be touring with Marie Brennan whose A Natural History of
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My April and May events. Am I coming to your town?
Since Valour and Vanity is coming out on April 29th, I have a ton of travel scheduled for the next two months. April Chicago, IL Friday, April 25 – Sunday, April 27 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo http://www.c2e2.com/ Mary’s schedule May I’m particularly excited because I’ll be touring with Marie Brennan whose A Natural History of
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Writing Excuses 9.14: How to have an Opinion as a Public Figure
Let’s poke the Internet! Of course, we may want to just sit on our hands for a few minutes and think before we poke… Enough thinking. Let’s talk about talking about things. As 21st-century writers, we often spend time writing the things we think on assorted topics. We might blog these things, tweet them, or
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Sign up for my mailing list/newsletter/digest/occasional short story/thingie
I’m going to try a newsletter thingie because people keep being surprised when I’m on book tour. They miss the posts, or the tweets, or the social media what have you and are then sad that they didn’t get to come visit and I’m sad too. Sad. So– I thought I’d try a mailing list/newsletter/digest/occasional
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Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a Writer—Full Disclosure
“What are the parts of the job that nobody told you about?” Or, you know, WARNED you about… It’s a question somebody sent to us, and we all had different answers, so Brandon put together a list, and we made a whole episode out of it! We talk about reviews, physical pain, dietary excitement, deadline-driven
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The dress I made for the cover for OF NOBLE FAMILY
Those of you following me on Instagram or Twitter have seen me posting process shots of the dress I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks. This will be on the cover for Of Noble Family, which is the fifth book in The Glamourist Histories. What? The 5th book? How is that possible. Book four, Valour and
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Okay, no, but really — I actually WAS offline for the past month
So… yesterday’s Alternate Reality Day prank included only four true things. I did beat Patrick Rothfuss at being Patrick Rothfuss, although I did not take his account over later. I wrote a short story trying to match the style of Scalzi, for kicks, which I presented as the first chapter of Young Man’s War: First Contact.
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Writing Excuses 9.13: Three Pronged Character Development
The new Writing Excuses is up. We talk about characters a lot, which is fitting since character are what make things go in most of our favorite books. Brandon introduces a new model for examining characters in which three primary attributes – Competence, Proactivity, and Sympathy – are contrasted. We treat each one as if
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