From March 25-27 I’ll be attending MidSouthCon 29 as the Author Guest of Honor. This will be my first time as a GoH and I couldn’t be more pleased for it to be at a convention that focuses on literacy and education. This Memphis based convention has been running for almost thirty years. Besides the usual programming with […]
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The Eugene Weekly has a nice review of Shades of Milk and Honey that manages to talk about the book without being spoilery. Kowal has a good time with the tropes and tweaks of this sort of story, making both sisters sympathetic and tossing a few obstacles into the way, but Shades sparkles to particular
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I mentioned that at the reading tonight, there would be a specialty cocktail. Rina Weisman, the power behind SF in SF, has given me the recipe to share with you As the inventor, I graciously share the recipe for all: 1 shot Velvet Falernum over ice, fill with a nice champagne, add a dash of
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The Powell’s Books blog has a glowing review of Shades of Milk and Honey. This is what a book crush is all about, this finding of a volume that is your perfect fit, the book you’ve been waiting for without ever knowing that you were waiting for it. This is one of those books that,
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I’ve just arrived in San Francisco where I will be reading at SF in SF with Cecilla Holland this Saturday, August 21st. Doors and cash bar open at 6:00PM and the readings begin at 7:00PM. Yes, I will be performing “The Broken Bridge” in addition to reading from Shades of Milk and Honey. A Q & A
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Making a trailer is a multi-part process and I thought it might be interesting if I described what went into making the Shades of Milk and Honey trailer. Stage One: Defining the parameters Budget: Before anything else happened, Rob and I sat down to talk about how much we could afford to spend. Money, sadly, defines
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Hey! A reminder that I’m reading tomorrow night (Wednesday, August 18th) at the KGB Fantastic Fiction series with the wonderful Laura Anne Gilman. The official press release is below. One thing that it doesn’t mention is that I’ll be performing The Broken Bridge, which is the shadow play that occurs in Chapter 10 of Shades
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I spent much of today tromping around Manhattan and heading into bookstores to sign copies of Shades of Milk and Honey. Interesting thing about selling a book: your job doesn’t stop there. The reason I trekked over the city is that signing books at a store does a number of things: It makes it easy
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I’ve arrived in NYC where I will be until Thursday morning. I’m reading from Shades of Milk and Honey at the KGB Fantastic Fiction series on Wednesday night with Laura Anne Gilman. You should come. For those who have been following my travel adventures, you will be pleased and baffled to know that I had
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Ann Wilkes interviewed me for Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys. We did the interview via IM which was fun and allowed for a more fluid give and take than an email interview but with the chance to actually think about what I was going to say, unlike radio interviews. It’s like the best of both
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In Which Mary Learns Not to Schedule Contests for Weeks When She is Travelling Sorry for the delay in posting the poll for the Shades of Milk and Honey giveaway. In the future I will make a note not to schedule posting a poll on a day when I am scheduled to travel to a
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Australian short story writer Angela Slatter, has interviewed me for part of her Drive-by Interview series. She’s a seriously talented writer and has two short story collections coming out this year, Sourdough & Other Stories with Tartarus Press (UK) and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales (Ticonderoga Publications) Here are the questions she asked
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Travel back from Raleigh was largely uneventful. On my second flight I had duplicate tickets with another passenger. Any annoyance I might have felt was quickly overcome by the reason behind the duplicates. I’d been upgraded to first class but they hadn’t issued a new ticket for me when I boarded. While I was sorting
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Shades of Milk and Honey is available through Audible.com as a digital download. Since they knew I narrated audio books, MacMillan asked me if I would be interested in recording my own book. Yes, very much so. Here is an excerpt from the Shades of Milk and Honey audio book.
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In case you couldn’t guess from the dearth of posts, NASFIC was a little bit busy. There is too much, let me sum up. Friday, most of my focus was on the Launch party. I was extremely fortunate that my parents were in town along with my brother, Steve, and his girlfriend, Jamie. My niece
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