Mary Robinette Kowal

In this episode Howard pitches three story ideas to the group, and they pick one to brainstorm. The selection process is itself educational (which is good, because it runs for a third of the ‘cast…) The story selected is near-future science-fiction with extra-dimensional, magical elements. As the brainstorming continues, we grab some fun secret-history elements,

Today, I have a dress for you. This is an extant dress that’s in the Nordic Museum. You can see the sides, back and details at the museum’s site. While there were differences in fashion from country to country, this is something that would have been at home in an English parlour during the day. Here’s

Where possible, I like to use real places. I stumbled upon Schomberg House when I was trying to figure out how much a glamourist like Vincent would make and what sort of housing he could afford. Schomberg served as the home of several members of the Royal Academy of Arts during its lifetime. It also

With only a month to go before the release of Without a Summer, I thought I would start to share some of research images that I was collecting while writing it. Here we have a set of eighteenth century playing cards such as one might use in playing whist. Whist is one of those games that turns

Hey guys! Want a copy of Glamour in Glass and fifteen other books? Seventeen of your favorite, award-winning and best-selling authors have teamed up to offer this giveaway: a copy of each of the following books to one lucky winner! THE LANTERN by Deborah Lawrenson — NY Times bestseller modern gothic novel of love, secrets, and murder—set against the

I thought you might. It goes on sale in October, or you can pre-order it now… Did I mention that’s two chapters longer than the U.S. version? Here, have a teaser. Under normal circumstances, this spur of the maze was a blind alley that did not quite lead to the centre. Using the “secret passages”

On Wednesday, at noon Central time, I’m opening registration for an online short story class.  Writing on the Fast Track Think you never have time to write? Think again. I wrote my Hugo-nominated short story “Evil Robot Monkey” in ninety minutes. If you have ninety minutes, you can have a story — all it takes

I recorded some of the audio for the new anthology Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, edited by John Joseph Adams. I also wrote a story for it called, “We Interrupt This Broadcast” which is in my punchcard punk universe. Chronologically, it takes place before “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” but the two stories only have

I’ve just sent the revised manuscript of Shades of Milk and Honey off to my editor for the UK edition. It is about four thousand words longer than the US edition and includes a couple of new scenes and a slightly different ending. I did not have to do any of this, but when my

I have just realized that I need a new dress for the Nebulas. Need. You understand, right? Then a friend pointed out that I could wear a Regency gown. I could, in fact, wear Jane’s primrose gown with demi-train from Glamour in Glass. From the 1813 La Belle Assemblee “Frock of plain jacconet muslin, with a