Before Wiscon I was waffling about whether or not I should take my new Regency garments. I really wanted to but I was also facing this thing in my brain which said that Serious Authors® don’t dress up as characters from their books. But the dress was so pretty! And there were parties! So I […]
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Last night when I was flying home and the fellow in the seat next to me was talking about how awful the situation in Iceland was with the whole country blanketed by ash. It’s not. I explained that the area affected by Eyjafjallajökul is very small and that Europe is getting most of the ash
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I’m in Minneapolis until 9:15 tonight. My flight from Madison — which I actually boarded — was delayed taking off but not badly. When we were approaching Minneapolis however, we started circling after they told us that we were ready for final descent. Eventually they explained that they were having problems with the hydraulics and
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Here’s an excerpt of the first official review of Shades of Milk and Honey from Joe Sherry of Adventures in Reading. No matter whether one comes into Shades of Milk and Honey as an unabashed fan of Jane Austen or, like me, avoids the stuff like the plague, Mary Robinette Kowal has delivered a debut novel
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And lo! Still I am in Madison. My flight was oversold so I volunteered to be bumped. I travel enough that those credit vouchers come in veeeeerrrry handy. My flight out isn’t until tomorrow morning so I’m hanging out, getting some writing done and just generally pretending that I’m on that thing I’ve heard people
While, normally I do try to avoid discussing my undergarments, I thought, given yesterday’s adventures, that you’d like to know that I did go shopping and am equipped for getting through the weekend. Although still finding the experience creepy, the story of it amuses me. You know what I mean about the difference between the
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Today is my brother’s birthday. You remember Steve, right? He’s the one who commissioned the Elvis Garden Gnome for his girlfriend’s birthday. My brother is a generally good guy, but does have a bit of an evil streak in him. He also is fond of beers and has a deep knowledge of different types and
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I’m flying out on a redeye tonight to Wiscon which looks like it will have a fun blend of people present. Hope to see you there. Saturday Juvenilia 10:00 – 11:15AM Caucus Moderator: Jennifer D. B. Lackey. Carol F. Emshwiller, Mary Robinette Kowal, Kelly McCullough Established authors are invited to read from their earliest works.
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I have a serious disadvantage as an author. Back in college, I was an art major and still do the occasional book design gig. Why is this a disadvantage? Because that part of my brain doesn’t get to play with the cover of my book but it thinks it knows what it is doing. It’s
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I am fatigued. We did this today. There’s my beloved, manning the camera in his role as director. I limited my input to art direction and occasionally movement coach. Interesting factoid… the table that the vase and flowers is sitting on is not a real table, although the vase and flowers are real. It’s
Successfully shot the trailer Read More »
This is badly keyed because I’m shooting the camera at an angle to the wall, but this is one of the shadowmasks we’ll be using when we film the Shades of Milk and Honey trailer tomorrow. Once I survive that, I’ll show you how they are made. For now, though, I need to make sure
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Today at 8:00 pm EDT I’ll be participating in Coyote Con, representing SFWA. Coyote con is a 31 day virtual convention covering a variety of aspects of reading and writing Speculative Fiction. It’s a pretty nifty thing with some interesting programming. So swing by Loki and join the discussion or ask questions about SFWA.
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One of the things that is wonderful about fandom is the way people reach out to help total strangers. Today and tomorrow, you have a chance to help, too. debsliverlovers is a fandom auction to benefit Deb Mensinger and her wife, Laurie J. Marks (author of the Elemental Logic series, the Children of the Triad
Fundraising auction for Deb Mensinger’s liver transplant. Read More »
Today in the mail I got a parcel from Historika, the modiste who has been making my Regency ensemble in the U.K. In it were two packages done up in tissue paper and pink ribbon. You know, it’s funny how a little touch like that can make a girl feel special. And of course, I
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There’s this thing people do called a book trailer which may or may not be helpful in selling books. I’m a visual person, and both Rob and I work in film and television so I figured, why not. There are a lot of elements that go into the making of the Shades of Milk and
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