Mary Robinette Kowal

Over the Nebula Weekend, I was interviewed by Jim Freund host of Hour of the Wolf. You can listen to the interview tonight (Weds night / Thurs morning) starting at 1:30 AM Eastern Time over WBAI, 99.5 FM in NYC and http://stream.wbai.org.  The broadcast will then be available on-demand for two weeks at http://archive.wbai.org/show1.php?showid=hotwolf. We talk about the state […]

I’ve been working on finishing the line edits for Without a Summer so had to stop working on Valour and Vanity for a bit. Yesterday I turned the changes in to my editor. Whew. So… today I was able to get back into the saddle for book 4, which means that I have a new chapter for those

Shanna Germain joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard in front of a live audience at GenCon Indy to talk about writing love scenes. They’re not easy to get right, and they can be even more difficult to talk about it in a way that leaves the Writing Excuses team’s “clean” rating intact. We cover the ways

There’s a new magazine out, TM Magazine, which has one of my stories in the debut issue. And… I have a coupon code that will get you a full year of the magazine: MRK2012 It expires on Dec 31, 2012. Though, people who use it before it expires will be granted access for a year’s worth

Pantsing! What are we even talking about? We’re talking about discovery writing, but apparently some folks think it’s more fun to call it “seat-of-your-pants” writing. In this cast we cover this exhilarating process, and how it might best be applied. Mary uses the “yes-but, no-and” trick. Dan starts with an end in mind, and then

Chapter 15 is up! I was having trouble in Chapter 17 and spent a good deal of time banging my head against the plot wall. A quick email exchange with the Writing Excuses guys helped me solve one of the issues and deleting a scene altogether solved the other.  

Here is an amusing video full of beautiful costumes and accuracy. Especially at the end.

I’ve just posted Chapter 14 and realized that I didn’t post a notice that Chapter 13 was up. So… some of you have two chapters to read. My pace is slowing down because I’m also doing line edits on Without a Summer and then there was WorldCon. And my parents visited. And I’m leaving town again

My parents are in town, visiting, but I have not lived in Chicago long enough to know what things are on the list of “must do.” We took the architectural boat tour yesterday. They’ve seen the Frank Lloyd Wright house, and the Art Institute. Tonight we are going to a concert at City Winery. Where