So yesterday, Mark Osier, the Music Guest of Honor at Westercon did a Writing Excuses themed concert. It was wonderful. All four of us were sitting there grinning like idiots during the show. We recorded it, so hopefully we can play the truly awesome song he wrote about the podcast for you. Real soon now.
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Westercon has been a blast so far. One of the highlights yesterday was listening to Bradley Voytek’s Guest of Honor presentation. He’s the science guest of honor and is a professor of neuroscience/cognitive science at USCD. Also, he’s written a book on the science of zombies. Awesome.
Today looks like it is shaping up to be good as well.
Here’s where to find me…
MRK’s Saturday schedule + Regency dancing! Read More »
I’m having a great time at Westercon in Salt Lake City, and here’s my schedule du jour. 10:00am – Guest of Honor: Mary Robinette Kowal, Salon D&E 1:00pm – Writing Excuses: w/Cory Doctorow, Salon D&E “Writing Excuses” is a local award-winning, nationally loved writing (FREE) podcast concerning writing. Join live tapings of this lively, instructive
Where to find me on the 4th of July… at Westercon Read More »
On Writing Excuses, we get a lot of questions that are related to how an idea becomes a story. So, we decided to demonstrate by doing podcasts that started with the raw idea going through the development process and then writing the fiction. We’ve put together a collection of four stories written by the members
Shadows Beneath: The Writing Excuses Anthology Read More »
I know, I know… It wasn’t on the list of names we were considering, but allow me to explain why it fits her so well. Sadie is short for Sarah, which means “princess” or “lady.” You can see that she has already made her position clear in the household. Sadie Peterson Delaney was the head
New Cat has a name… Welcome Sadie. Read More »
Last week, I got a phone call from Peggy Rae Sapienza, who is one of the co-chairs of World Fantasy. She had a favor to ask. I like it when she asks me for favors. The one before this was, “Would you mind running the Whiskey tasting with Guy Gavriel Kay on the Wednesday before WFC starts?”
I am the Toastmaster for World Fantasy in D.C. this year Read More »
So far, I can tell you that she’s very affectionate, has tiny little vocalizations, and looooooooves being brushed. As in, she will lie down and air-knead while you are working on her. Her fur is a little scraggly because she’s had a rough go, but I think she’ll bounce back quickly.
She and Marlowe have seen each other, but not been allowed in the same room together yet. They both are curious, but we want to give her time to feel more comfortable with the space before tossing a giant at her.
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I have this theory when I teach writing, that it’s easier to learn things if you break them into separate techniques. One of the things a writer needs to learn is how to edit. It can be totally overwhelming, which is why you’ll hear the advice about “Turn off your Internal Editor” when writing. I
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I inherited three things from Grandma: two cast iron skillets, and her mother’s cookbook. This morning, I made the eggless corn muffins. 1 1/8 cup flour 1 1/8 cups yellow corn meal 1/2 teaspoon soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 1/2 cups sour milk 1 tablespoon melted shorting. Sift
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Matthew Johnson is joining us today with his book Irregular Verbs and Other Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description. keluarga: to move to a new village lunak: to search for something without finding it mencintai: to love for the last time Meet a guilt-ridden nurse who atones for her sins by joining her zombified patients in
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Michael R. Underwood is joining us today with his novel Shield and Crocus. Here’s the publisher’s description. In a city built among the bones of a fallen giant, a small group of heroes looks to reclaim their home from the five criminal tyrants who control it. The city of Audec-Hal sits among the bones of
My Favorite Bit: Michael R. Underwood talks about SHIELD AND CROCUS Read More »
We had to say goodbye to our cat Harriet today. She was fine last week, but then lethargic over the weekend and when we took her in to the vet… The decline was very fast. Rob and I spent last night cuddling with her. She was such a lap cat, that it was easy to think
Josh Crute is joining us today to talk about his new web series WebCamelot, created in collaboration with David Rice and Matthew Barnette. Here’s the show’s description. In a recent discovery that rocked the historical community, archaeologists uncovered an ancient hard drive filled with video blogs dating from the reign of ARTHUR PENDRAGON, KING OF CAMELOT.
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What you are about to see is not brilliant dancing. It is, instead, an example of the ways in which my husband loves me. Before we got married, I had the standard checklist that people develop on things that their partner must have. One of those, for me, was ballroom dancing. My parents met in a
Dancing and accounting as an expression of love. Twue wuv… Read More »
C. Robert Cargill is joining us today with his novel Queen of the Dark Things. Here’s the publisher’s description. Screenwriter and noted film critic C. Robert Cargill continues the story begun in his acclaimed debut Dreams and Shadows in this bold and brilliantly crafted tale involving fairies and humans, magic and monsters—a vivid phantasmagoria that
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