Since Valour and Vanity is coming out on April 29th, I have a ton of travel scheduled for the next two months. April Chicago, IL Friday, April 25 – Sunday, April 27 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo http://www.c2e2.com/ Mary’s schedule May I’m particularly excited because I’ll be touring with Marie Brennan whose A Natural History of
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Since Valour and Vanity is coming out on April 29th, I have a ton of travel scheduled for the next two months. April Chicago, IL Friday, April 25 – Sunday, April 27 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo http://www.c2e2.com/ Mary’s schedule May I’m particularly excited because I’ll be touring with Marie Brennan whose A Natural History of
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Michael R. Underwood is joining us today with his novella Attack the Geek. For full disclosure, I narrated the audiobook and loved the heck out of it. Ree is smart, snarky and 100% geek. This is a fast-paced adventure, that’s witty and fun. Here’s the publisher’s description. A side quest novella in the bestselling Geekomancy urban
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Let’s poke the Internet! Of course, we may want to just sit on our hands for a few minutes and think before we poke… Enough thinking. Let’s talk about talking about things. As 21st-century writers, we often spend time writing the things we think on assorted topics. We might blog these things, tweet them, or
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I’m going to try a newsletter thingie because people keep being surprised when I’m on book tour. They miss the posts, or the tweets, or the social media what have you and are then sad that they didn’t get to come visit and I’m sad too. Sad. So– I thought I’d try a mailing list/newsletter/digest/occasional
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Emily Jiang is joining us today with her picture book Summoning the Phoenix. Here’s the publisher’s description. Every musician knows that learning to play an instrument has its challenges and its rewards. There’s the embarrassing first day of rehearsal, but also the joy of making friends in the orchestra. There’s dealing with slippery concert dress,
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“What are the parts of the job that nobody told you about?” Or, you know, WARNED you about… It’s a question somebody sent to us, and we all had different answers, so Brandon put together a list, and we made a whole episode out of it! We talk about reviews, physical pain, dietary excitement, deadline-driven
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Those of you following me on Instagram or Twitter have seen me posting process shots of the dress I’ve been working on for the past couple of weeks. This will be on the cover for Of Noble Family, which is the fifth book in The Glamourist Histories. What? The 5th book? How is that possible. Book four, Valour and
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Danielle Paige is joining us today with her novel Dorothy Must Die. Here’s the publisher’s description. I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero. But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?
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So… yesterday’s Alternate Reality Day prank included only four true things. I did beat Patrick Rothfuss at being Patrick Rothfuss, although I did not take his account over later. I wrote a short story trying to match the style of Scalzi, for kicks, which I presented as the first chapter of Young Man’s War: First Contact.
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The new Writing Excuses is up. We talk about characters a lot, which is fitting since character are what make things go in most of our favorite books. Brandon introduces a new model for examining characters in which three primary attributes – Competence, Proactivity, and Sympathy – are contrasted. We treat each one as if
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EDITED TO ADD: For those of you arriving late, this was my Alternate Reality Day prank. # Did you miss me? I took the month of March off from the internet and behold! I have returned triumphant. Mostly. Kind of not at all. It happened like this. John Scalzi, Pat Rothfuss and I were sitting
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Mindy Klasky is joining us today with her novel Perfect Pitch. Here’s the publisher’s description. A hot, contemporary short novel by best-selling author Mindy Klasky. Reigning beauty queen Samantha Winger is launching her pet project, a music program for kids. All she has to do is follow the pageant’s rules—no smoking, drinking, or “cavorting” in
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Hello future! I’m writing this before heading on internet vacation for the month of March. You should be receiving it with one week left to nominate for the Hugo awards. I hope you won’t mind if I remind you that a couple of my things are eligible for consideration. Novelette Lady Astronaut of Mars – Tor.com
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Adam Christopher is joining us today with his novel The Burning Dark. Here’s the publisher’s description. Back in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds. But after saving a planet, and getting a bum robot knee in the process, he
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