Sunset on the lake with Rob. http://lockerz.com/s/109894228 # Is the sunset this pretty where you are? http://lockerz.com/s/109900031 # Ooo! Rob jus caught some weeds. He threw them back. Too small. # The news from Lake Wobegon: Matt and Michelle's wedding. http://is.gd/5XYurx #
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It’s been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. The weather has cooled off after the heat wave of the week before and killed off a lot of the mosquitos. It’s a good thing, too, what with the wedding and all. Matt and Michele have been an item for the past ten years and finally decided
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My short story, “For Want of a Nail” is up at Escape Pod as part of their Hugo Month. It is read by the awesome Mur Lafferty. You can listen to the whole story at EP296: For Want of a Nail : Escape Pod.
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No, really. Rob’s family lives in one of the towns that Garrison Keilor based Lake Woebegon on. So, I’m sure you are wondering how this installment of #marygoround went. Our flight out of Portland was mostly on time and made up the loss on the way to Denver. The REALLY AWESOME thing though was that
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Note: Giving blood makes the hill in front of our apartment steeper. Perhaps biking was a bad plan. # A thoughtful reader review of Shades of Milk and Honey. From a guy! Love it when I trick them into reading a regency. http://is.gd/RTbk2f # Another day, another adventure with #marygoround Rob and I are waiting
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Note: Giving blood makes the hill in front of our apartment steeper. Perhaps biking was a bad plan. # A thoughtful reader review of Shades of Milk and Honey. From a guy! Love it when I trick them into reading a regency. http://is.gd/RTbk2f # Another day, another adventure with #marygoround Rob and I are waiting
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Rob and I are at the Portland airport on our way to Minnesota. Our nephew on his side is getting married this weekend. It will be good to see his family. We got to spend time with them when we moved to NYC but the route we took back didn’t take us through their town.
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Yay! Our hometime independent paper, The Portland Mercury not only reviewed Shades of Milk and Honey but also liked it! Wish Jane Austen’s subtle novels had a little more action, but fewer zombies? Well, Portlander Mary Robinette Kowal’s debut novel Shades of Milk and Honey is your new manna. In this age of Regency spinning,
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I'll be reading at Uncle Hugo's SF bookstore in Minneapolis this Sunday from 1-2. See you there? http://is.gd/MYSLES # On my way to the Kennedy School with Ted Chiang for the #sfwa NW reading series. We're meeting @nancykress and Ursula K. Le Guin. 7pm! #
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We have made the odd discovery that if you pet Harriet in 2/4 time, she’s happy. I mean, you can really pound on her and she just presses into your hand. 5/8 time is right out and results in being bitten no matter how gentle you are. She gets this pained look anytime Rob has
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I’ll be at Uncle Hugo’s SF bookstore in Minneapolis this Sunday, the 12th from 1-2. Not only will I be reading from Shades of Milk and Honey, but I’ll also perform a small shadow play from Chapter 10. And I’ll have Shades and Glamour cards with me. I hope to see you there.
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The trade paperback of Shades of Milk and Honey releases today! There are three things that are exciting about that. 1. It’s cheaper! 2. It has Chapter One of Glamour in Glass in it. 3. I have a game for you, Shades and Glamour. Shades and Glamour is based on an alternate history of the
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Hey gang! Are you in the Portland area? What are you doing tomorrow night? No, no… don’t tell me. You’ll be at the Kennedy School to hear Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang, and Ursula K. Le Guin read as part of the SFWA Northwest Reading Series, right? Am I right? If you aren’t already planning on
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Remember last month when I flew to Salt Lake City for the weekend? I can reveal the reason now. I’ve joined the Writing Excuses Podcast as a full-time member. So for a weekend, I was locked in a basement with Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler. It was torture, I tell you. Torture! Having
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One of the interesting things about dialogue is that you can convey a great deal of information with it. However, any given line can mean something totally different depending upon the context. The narrative provides the context through setting, pace, action, and internal motivation. For instance, take the phrase “What did you say?” By adding
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