I try to stay two chapters ahead of where my readers are so I can go back and insert information as I go. I just finished writing Chapter Five of Without a Summer which means that I’ve posted Chapter 3 for those of you reading along. Here’s a teaser. Jane sat at breakfast the morning after
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I’ve posted the draft of Chapter 2 for those of you reading along. I’ve got a teaser below, and have hidden it because it does have a mild spoiler for Shades of Milk and Honey. If you want to be reading, read the ground rules and drop me a line.
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Yesterday, I had breakfast with Dan and Howard at The Original Pancake House, which it turns out is a chain. But a tasty treat nonetheless with giant, giant portions. Then we came down to Brandon’s house and locked ourselves into the basement for several hours to record Writing Excuses. The episodes are only fifteen minutes
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With Shades of Milk and Honey, I posted the first three chapters in the clear as I wrote them and then password protected the rest. For Glamour in Glass, I also had people reading along and found it very helpful. After talking it over with my editor, the lovely Liz Gorinsky, I’ve been given permission to
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Where am I heading this time? I’m going to Salt Lake City to record some more episodes of Writing Excuses with Brandon, Dan, and Howard. I know this has been a subject of some curiosity to a few of you, so for a brief moment, I’m going to take you behind the curtain. I live
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I’ve spent the first two days of November in the company of thousands of other writers pounding down words. For a lot of these folks, this is their first attempt to write a novel. Will it be a publishable draft? No. Will it teach a lot about putting your Butt in the Chair and writing?
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Mur Lafferty, the Grand Dame of SF podcasting, joins Howard, Mary, and Dan to talk about ways in which writers can continue their educations. We’ve said time and again that nothing improves your writing skills like doing more writing, but there are some other things you can do so that your writing practice pays off
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RT Reviews sat down and asked me a bunch of good questions about the sequels to Shades of Milk and Honey. Author Mary Robinette Kowal’s debut novel, the fantasy Shades of Milk and Honey, was awarded our August 2010 RT Seal of Excellence. Said RT Senior Reviewer Natalie A. Luhrs, “If Jane Austen had written
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NaNoWriMo starts tomorrow, and I’m going to be diving into writing Without A Summer. Since I wrote Shades of Milk and Honey as a NaNo novel, it makes sense to work on one of the sequels as my project this November. If you are in Portland… Case Study Coffee (NE 53rd and Sandy) has agreed
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A couple of years ago, I worked on a show called That Pretty, Pretty, which involved vast quantities of blood. The problem was that the blood needed to spray the walls and then disappear by the next scene. I figure with Halloween just around the corner, that people might want another trick up their sleeve.
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And I’m off! Again! I’m in San Diego for World Fantasy, where I hope I will see some of you. My travel down was reasonable smooth, aside from a bizarre period of sitting on the tarmac because the North runway was closed. I don’t know why. Here’s my schedule! Friday 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM Town
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We’ve done brainstorming casts before. This time we’ve prepared something quite a bit different. It’s different, in fact, because we prepared it — in advance, even. Producer Jordo provided your hosts Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard with four wacky news headlines. From these, we each hammered together rudimentary bits of story, and we did so
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