I grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina so it makes me very happy to be going there to read at Quail Ridge Books. Friday the 10th, I’ll be reading at 7:30. Quail Ridge Books 3522 Wade Avenue Raleigh,NC 27607 I’m coming with the full Regency costume and the tiny little puppet show. Please come?
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The good folks at Audible.com have offered to give a copy of the audio version of Without a Summer to one of you. Here– Have a sample to listen to. Click to listen to the: Without a Summer sample The actual audiobook is eight and a half hours of listening to me tell you a story about
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Waylines is a new online magazine with fiction, reviews, and interviews. I stopped by to answer some questions for them. Our featured author for issue 3 is Mary Robinette Kowal, a Campbell and Hugo award winning author, who has just released the third book in her Glamourist History series, Without a Summer. When she’s not
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One of my writing buddies in Chicago has a debut novel. Wesley Chu’s The Lives of Tao is sort of like Mission Impossible, if the team were possessed by hyper-intelligent aliens. You want action, conspiracy, and some humor? That’s what Wes is aiming to provide. So what’s his Favorite bit? WESLEY CHU Choosing My Favorite Bit is
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This is a 16,200 word SF novella that I’ve written for Audible.com’s shared world anthology series, Metatropolis. I’m looking for readers who would be willing to give me their gut reaction to it. Mostly what I’m looking for though are large story issues. In particular, things that: Confuse you You don’t believe You are bored by
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Have a cat video to celebrate, while I move on to the Valour and Vanity revisions. In this case, I’ve got our cat Marlowe wearing a basket on his head.
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So… I may be a bit scarce, even for me, over the next week. Or I will post lots of cat videos. Or both. I have a novella due. And the page proofs for the UK editions of Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass. And the revisions for Valour and Vanity. And book tour for Without
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The first thing you should know is that Delilah S. Dawson’s new book isn’t a vampire novel. At all. Don’t let the fact that some people drink blood fool you for a second. Here’s the cover copy. True love’s kiss isn’t enough for this Blud princess. But blood and music may win her heart forever.
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For the next few days, I’ll be reading aloud the page proofs of the UK edition of Shades of Milk and Honey. The purpose of this is to help me catch errors that I might otherwise miss. Since the UK edition is two chapters longer than the US edition, there are a significant number of
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You love ‘em, we love ‘em, and there’s never a shortage of questions so here’s another another fast-paced Q&A. Here are the questions that we field in this episode: How do you prepare to write? How do you write stories that are important without being heavy-handed? Magical realism vs. Fantasy — what’s the difference? Do
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This is a photo from my appearance at the University Bookstore in Seattle, but it gives you an idea of what the reading will be like tonight at Powell’s in Beaverton . I’m going to preview part of Chapter 1 of book 4, Valour and Vanity. That’s not due out until 2014, but I sometimes enjoy being a
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My book tour “happened” to time out to allow me to attend the Oregon Regency Society’s Spring Ball. The theme this year was “In Celebration of Shakespeare” so I went as Ophelia. I’ve added rosemary, for remembrance, and there’s fennel for you… I’ve also added ferns to my hair, instead of the usual ostrich plumes,
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