I’ve been interviewed over at The Writer Librarian. Here’s a sample question. Your website states that you are a both an award-winning author and an award-winning puppeteer. How do you divide time between both professions and has puppeteering played an active influence on your writing life (or vice-versa)? Read my answer to this and other […]
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I promised you a photo of me in The Dress. Please note: I am wearing five-inch heals and am not actually the same height as Neil Gaiman. I know that someone took a photo of me with my parents. Cleverly, we didn’t. We did take one of me with my husband which is out of focus. So… if
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Dan needs to write a military thriller. It’s just a short story, but still, it’s a bit outside his area of expertise, and he needs help. So in this episode Brandon, Mary, and Howard will endeavor to help him. The working title? “I.E.Demon” You can’t read this story yet, but we’ll let you know when
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Tonight at 8pm Pacific, I’ll be on Geek and Sundry’s The Story Board hosted by Patrick Rothfuss. We’ll be discussing the topic, “Concerning Characters” Guests: Bradley Beaulieu, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Amber Benson They’ll be discussing what makes a good character, how to create a character that people will care about, the process of creating a
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This week, we have Gwenda Bond talking about her YA novel, Blackwood. It’s a September 2012 launch title for Strange Chemistry, the brand-new YA imprint from Angry Robot Books. On Roanoke Island, the legend of the 114 people who mysteriously vanished from the Lost Colony hundreds of years ago is just an outdoor drama for the
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I had the pleasure of meeting Adam Christopher at WorldCon this week, where we were on a panel about Alternate Histories. He’s smart and funny, and also flexible about weirdness. The room we were supposed to have the panel in was locked, so we wound up having the panel in the hall. In a way,
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If you are looking for me at WorldCon, here are some places that I know I’ll be. Copies of Shades of Milk and Honey and Glamour in Glass will be at the Schlock Mercenary table in the Dealer’s room, and yes, I’ll totally write in the missing first sentence for you. Thursday Aug 30 1:30:pm –
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Fans of role-playing games should know the name Monte Cook well, because he’s been writing some of the highest-profile tomes in the field for two-and-a-half decades now. Monte joins us in front of a live audience at GenCon Indy 2012 to talk about writing games. We start by talking about some of the differences between straight-up
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Today we have Morgan Keyes, who is doing a givewaway of her new YA novel to commenters on my blog. DARKBEAST is the story of Keara, an eleven-year-old girl facing the biggest decision of her life. In Keara’s world, every child has a darkbeast—a creature that takes dark deeds and emotions like anger, pride, and
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Rachel Swirsky is one of the best short story writers working in speculative fiction. At least, that’s my feeling about her. Her work has a beautiful use of language and is thought-provoking. I’m very happy that she’s joining us today to talk about her novelette “Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia,” which is available on Tor.com So
I am en route to Portland, but finished a chapter on the plane so… Here is Chapter 11 for those of you reading along. And now, they are boarding my flight from Salt Lake City. Ta!
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