Mary Robinette Kowal

Would you like to see the beautiful thing I was given for Christmas? This is a masquerade locket from 1850. My friend Eve was in town this past summer on a buying trip for Maloy’s Jewelry Workshop, in Portland (highly recommended, by the way). I asked her to keep an eye out for a cameo […]

I would totally blame the holidays for getting derailed on the novel, but really it was the darn chapter 29 which gave me SUCH trouble. I finally sorted out where I’d gone wrong and wrapped the chapter, which means that Chapter 27 is now posted. There’s some retcon for earlier chapters listed, but I haven’t

Hey, guess what 2012 has fifty-three of? Mondays! So you’re getting a fifty-third episode of “Writing Excuses” this season. (You’re also going to be getting a fifty-fourth, because we stuck an extra in there a few weeks back.) Hopefully this excuses (no pun intended) the fact that this episode is a full three days late.

It has been snowing here, a little. Just enough to give a frosting to surfaces, but not so much to actually be inconvenient. Unless one is a cat. I opened the door to the balcony and Marlowe headed outside, then apparently teleported back inside.

Tonight I’m reading at KGB with Ben Loory. You’ll get to hear the opening of Without a Summer and a little puppet show. Come down!

There’s no need to introduce this. I mean… really. It has everything you want.

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 is understanding how to make every word work double-time. In this workshop, learn the same techniques I use when I’m

Jane Austen has clearly had an enormous influence on my writing career. But beyond the obvious connections that Shades of Milk and Honey has, Jane Austen’s attention to detail has taught me more, as an author, about writing than pretty much anyone else. She recognized that often what is unsaid is more telling than what is said.