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
Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a Writer—Full Disclosure Read More »
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.
Okay, no, but really — I actually WAS offline for the past month Read More »
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
I’ve been John Scalzi for the past month, and you didn’t notice. Read More »
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
A brief reminder of my Hugo eligible works. Read More »
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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By lucky chance, I have two extra tickets to the live Welcome to Night Vale show and don’t want them to go to waste. So — I am breaking my internet sabbatical to see if you — yes, you — want to go to the show tonight. The show is at 7pm tonight at the Athenaeum, 2936 N.
I have 2 extra tickets to tonight’s Welcome to Night Vale 7pm show. Want to go? Read More »
My grandmother, Mary Elois Stephens Jackson, passed away this morning at 109 years. She had a good run and I know that she was ready to go, but I am going to miss her deeply. She was a wonderful, remarkable woman. Grandma turns up in my fiction twice. If you want to get a sense of
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Anna Kashina is joining us today with her novel Blades of the Old Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description. Kara is a mercenary – a Diamond warrior, the best of the best, part of the Majat Guild. When her tenure to Prince Kythar comes to an end, he wishes to retain her services, but bust accompany
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In all seriousness, this was a previously scheduled internet vacation, but after the past week? I’m really, really, really happy I already had this scheduled. Basically, I leave on the Steampunk Cruise tomorrow as one of the guests of honor. The internet is stupid expensive on board ship, so I was going to be offline
In other COMPLETELY UNRELATED NEWS, I’m taking a month off from the internet Read More »
So, Sean Fodera apologized and I accepted it. In the vein of continuing to use this experience as a representative example, I’m going to address things I’ve seen floating around the internet. “Why would you accept it?” I think he was sincere. If it had been a fauxpology, then, no. But, again, I think it
On why I accepted the apology and on the role of apologies in general Read More »