Mary Robinette Kowal

This is the third year for the Month of Letters Challenge. It’s a simple thing, really, just to encourage you to slow down. The challenge goes like this: In the month of February, mail at least one item through the post every day it runs. Write a postcard, a letter, send a picture, or a

 It is one of the great tragedies of my life that I cannot include this TOTALLY LEGIT steam-powered wheelchair from 1811 in my novels, because it will look steampunk. Even though it is a real thing — or at least was proposed as a real thing and published in Ackerman’s, it is so out of keeping

You’ve heard me talk about Pat Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders charity before. The basic idea is that the money you donate goes to Heifer International which “helps people raise themselves up out of poverty and starvation. Heifer promotes education, sustainable agriculture, and local industry all over the world. ” One of the ways they do this is

I’m going through the page proofs of Valour and Vanity  and will be reading the novel aloud in a Google+ hangout over the next several days. If you are interested in process, you’ll get to see me adjusting the text and doing a fair bit of cursing my own prose. Each session will run about two hours.

Rob and I were coming back from a date night, taking the Blue Line home on one of the bitterly cold nights last week. There was a couple two seats in front of us with luggage, who looked as if they were coming back from O’Hare. They were sitting at that place on the train