I just realized that I have an 1814 copy of Elegant Extracts. I knew I had a couple of books from the early 1800s but it had been a decade or more since I acquired them and had forgotten what they were. We were cleaning and I picked this up and then exclaimed. Why? Because
Zounds! I have an 1814 copy of Elegant Extracts. Read More »
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman from the Interstitial Arts Foundation join Mary and Dan at World Fantasy to discuss things that fall into the gaps between the genres. How do publishers, agents, and booksellers deal with titles that are speculative, but that cannot be easily categorized as science fiction, fantasy, horror, paranormal romance, steampunk, or
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If you are in the Seattle area, at 2:00 today I’ll be doing a short presentation, plus a puppet play, at the JASNA of Puget Sound’s annual Jane Austen celebration. You don’t have to be a member to attend. At the Jane Austen Society of North America — Puget Sound chapter’s annual celebration of Jane
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Years ago, I was in Lyme Regis and bought my favorite hat. I was just looking through my journal and found the name of the shop and thought, “I’ll bet they have a website now.” Behold! Pop Goes the Weasel is a bespoke milliner and does beautiful, beautiful work. Now you don’t have to visit
Pop Goes The Weasel hats. Ooo, the pretty, pretty hats. Read More »
Or at least, a draft of Without a Summer is finished. It is 84,000 words, which makes it 10k longer than the other two books. I am a little baffled because I wrote it in 39 days. Granted, this is only a first draft and it needs revisions, but it is still a lot of words.
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For those of you reading along on Without a Summer, the draft of Chapter 23 is up. I will now commence refreshing my mailbox obsessively while I wait for comments.
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What? You wouldn’t do this? From Christmas 2011 It did take some structural engineering to get it to stay put because it is a wee bit heavier than your standard tree topper.
Why, yes. That IS a Hugo atop my Christmas Tree Read More »
For those of you reading along, Chapter 22 of the Without a Summer draft is posted. I am now writing the chapter that I wanted to avoid writing so the next chapter might be a bit. Mental note: writing historicals is hard.