Mary Robinette Kowal

Sometimes Google Voice transcripts are very useful. Then there are the ones like this.

If you missed the live broadcast on the first, you can watch Patrick Rothfuss and me chat about various aspects of Beginning work.

You know… every single time I write a novel, I hit this point where I bog down and can’t figure out why. Then remember that it’s the 3/4 mark and that this is when I need to reread what I’ve already written. Every time. And every time, I bang my head on whatever scene I’m

One of my favorite ways of looking back on the previous year is this little meme. So here are the first 12 sentences from my blog for each month of 2012. Here we are nearly a week into the New Year and I haven’t posted a thing. I have been a little nervous, waiting for

I CAN HAZ NEW YEER’S RESOLUSHUN?

Now… if you happen to be one of the three people who already read chapter 28, it’s revised and longer. Otherwise, I hope you are having a happy New Year.

I know you are wondering what to do with yourself this evening. You want to start the New Year off the way you plan to go on, right? So if you’re a writer, spend part of today writing and then… tonight. Stop by The Storyboard and let Pat Rothfuss and me answer questions for you. LIVE.

 Last night, Rob and I closed out 2012 by making sushi and having a quiet evening at home. I’m not even certain how we started the tradition of making sushi at home for New Year’s Eve, but that’s what we do. This year was surprisingly difficult to find sushi grade fish in Chicago. The first

Given how things go down in Redshirts, I’m not sure that having this on your subway card is entirely reassuring.

This is Abbott and Costello’s classic “Who’s on First” routine as performed in their 1945 film “The Naughty Nineties.” Besides the fact that it is hilarious, there are three things that I find interesting about this recording. It’s set in vaudeville, which is where the sketch was originally developed. You can see moments when they hesitate,

And now, for the very last episode of Season 7, we shall chance taking a look forward. Is this prognostication, or reckless abandon? Neither! We get asked a lot about how the industry is changing, and how we’re adjusting to what we see happening. This isn’t us predicting the future: this is us interpreting what we’re