Rob and I had a lovely weekend, which was mostly spent being domestic and attending to various marital duties. I did, however, write a chapter.
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Tomorrow, the 17th, is our twelfth anniversary. It’s a day on which I unplug from the electronic world and just hang out with my husband. This weekend, it also coincides with the end of harvest and crush at the winery. Rob is taking his first days off since harvest began in September. To celebrate that,
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For those of you reading along as I write Of Noble Family, I just posted Chapter two. If you are wondering what I’m talking about, I am writing the fifth book in The Glamourist Histories, and letting people read along as I go. Want to join in? Pop over to this post to read the ground
It’s NaNoWriMo time again. That means that I have a novel in progress and am looking for people who want to read along. 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, Without a Summer, and Valour
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I was at a convention in one of my Regency gowns, and someone asked, “What did black people wear?” The answer is that the clothing expressed a wide range of styles depending on a person’s station and where they lived but— since I think that question came from a place of wanting to do historical
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Sandra Tayler is joining us today with her picture book project The Strength of Wild Horses, now on Kickstarter. What’s Sandra’s favorite bit? SANDRA TAYLER I didn’t intend to write a second picture book. I thought my daughter only needed one story. That was foolish because we all need hundreds of stories at various stages of our lives.
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Back in 2009, Vylar Kaftan wrote a blog post about diversity statistics in her own fiction. Basically, she did a survey of her fiction, tracking gender, race, sexual orientation, age, class, and ability/disability. I thought this was a darn fine idea, so I did the same, using her template. I actually had a pretty decent
Jodi McIsaac is joining us today with her novel, Into the Fire. Here’s the publisher’s description. Cedar McLeod would like nothing more than to return to Tír na nÓg, help rebuild the mythical kingdom, and start a new life for herself and her daughter, Eden. But peace isn’t what Cedar finds after being reunited with her little
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People write to ask me about how to get started in puppetry a lot. There are schools you can go to, but most puppeteers get their start by interning with a puppet company. One of my favorites is looking for interns. So if you’re in the NYC area and want to learn more about puppetry,
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Sean Williams is joining us today with his novel, Twinmaker. Here’s the publisher’s description. M. T. Anderson meets Cory Doctorow in this teen debut from #1 New York Times bestseller Sean Williams, who also coauthors the Troubletwisters series with Garth Nix. When a coded note promises improvement—the chance to change your body any way you want, making
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I’m in Iceland on a visit. While showing some friends around, we stopped in Hallgrimskirka and got lucky, because their organist was practicing. Here’s a bit of it. And this is how we spent the last two days. More photos tomorrow, I’m betting, after we return from Skaftafell and the Glacial Lagoon.
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Wesley Chu is joining us today with his novel The Deaths of Tao. Here’s the publisher’s description. The sequel to The Lives of Tao. The Prophus and the Genjix are at war. For centuries they have sought a way off-planet, guiding humanity’s social and technological development to the stage where space travel is possible. The end
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I am smug. Really, insufferably smug. Why, you might ask, do I have this excessive sense of pride? I will tell you. First, you should know about #TheRealRothfuss game. For two weeks, Pat Rothfuss and five impersonators will all try to convince you that they are the real Pat Rothfuss on Twitter. At the end
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Max Gladstone is joining us today with his novel Two Serpents Rise. Here’s the publisher’s description. In Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone, shadow demons plague the city reservoir, and Red King Consolidated has sent in Caleb Altemoc—casual gambler and professional risk manager—to cleanse the water for the sixteen million people of Dresediel Lex. At the scene
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