Mary Robinette Kowal

I am flying to Oregon today to go to the Oregon Regency Society Retreat. While I’m in transit, have an amusing video. (Hat tip to Jon Freestone)

We’re into the part of the process where I usually start slowing down. Plus, there’s a crazy amount of travel this month. BUT… Chapter 10 is up, for those of you reading along. I know that some folks are wanting to get into the early read. I’m going to want another group going through in

There are two magazines that I’ve been art director for, Shimmer and Weird Tales. I was so honored when Stephen Segal tapped me to be his successor on the Weird Tales staff. I mean, he’s the art director who was responsible from revamping and updating the Weird Tales look in conjunction with editor Ann Vandermeer’s groundbreaking

As part of my writing process, I always read my final draft aloud. This time, the story is “The Lady Astronaut of Mars.” It should take about an hour to read. It’ll be in a G+ Hangout. You’ll get to watch me stop and grumble about “who wrote this” as I fix wording. And yes, you can

Let’s talk about how to start the next one — not the next book in a series, necessarily. Your next project might not leverage the worldbuilding or characters you used in your previous project. We discuss the challenges each of us have faced, and how we’ve cleared those hurdles. If you’re having trouble letting go

For those of you reading along, Chapter 9 is posted. Somehow, and I’m a little unclear on how, I managed to get 2000 words written yesterday in addition to spending nine hours in the recording booth. I credit David Klecha, and his tasty homemade pizza combined with a writing date. Meanwhile, today I felt so

I am in Grand Haven, MI recording a 700 + page audio book. Massive, massive audio book filled with Ukranian words, along with Polish and Russian, which are not pronounced the same. Also some French, Italian, and German just for kicks. When I’m not in the studio, I’m prepping for the next day. All of

Let’s start today out with something happy-making. This is Sarah Paddy Jones dancing the salsa with her coach. She’s 75, he’s thirty years younger. You need to watch the whole thing. As much as anything, I love the way she plays with audience expectations.

So, I’ve got my novel back, thank heavens. I use both dropbox and an external harddrive so didn’t lose any data except what I wrote on the train yesterday morning. I’m having the harddrive looked at today and will probably be able to recover that since I had Scrivener set to save every two seconds.