I’ve now survived the Nebula Award Weekend which was a fun event, but rather focus consuming. The full list of winners is over at the SFWA site and if you want to you can watch the archived footage of the awards ceremony. The highlight for me was the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. I […]
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I am off to the Nebula Award Weekend in Florida. I wonder what I’ve forgotten pack… I’d ask who is going, but I’ve got the guest list on my computer. SO looking forward to seeing all of you.
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This is the first of what I hope to be a regular feature called Getting to Know. The goal will be to give a brief overview of an author that is new to me and some of their short work while also mentioning what novel length works they have in the pipeline. This also plays
I’m looking for a space in which to record the trailer for Shades of Milk and Honey. Ideally it would be 40 feet long, a minimum of12 feet wide, able to get completely dark, and available on May 20th. Why those parameters? The trailer is using shadow puppetry to take advantage of the period’s fascination
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Allow me to present the cover for my debut novel, Shades of Milk and Honey. This thing of beauty was designed by Terry Rohrbach at Base Art Co. Book designers often go unrecognized, with attention focused on original art and yet they are the ones that control so much of the look and feel of
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Yesterday I decided to see if I could repair the broken guard. After reading about repairing ivory and bone I opted to try a European woodglue that I’ve got which combines the organic properties of white glues with a fast drying time. I use it for puppet building normally. Plus, if I was terribly wrong,
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At Penguicon I had the good fortune to be on a panel with Daniel J. Hogan about Adapting Your Novel to Podcast. This something that Daniel has been doing with his own novel for at least a year and he’s turning them into audio theater, with sound effects and everything. What I do is something
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I’ve been putting together my Regency wardrobe for the Shades of Milk and Honey launch party and was scanning ebay for inexpensive fans that could pass for period appropriate. There were a surprising number of fans that really were from the early 1800s, if only I wanted to spend hundreds of dollars. I didn’t. And
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I’m sitting in the Detroit Airport waiting for my flight back from Penguicon. It was great fun which, as usual, left me a bit fatigued. I was going to blog but am just past the point where I’m willing to spend $13 for internet access at a hotel. Smart phones, you know, I can keep
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I’m flying out to Penguicon today and will be having a whole slew of fun-filled adventures while I’m there. I’m taking a red-eye so I won’t actually arrive until EARLY Friday morning. Here’s my schedule while I’m there. Friday Author Reading – 6pm Three authors for the price of one! Cherie Priest, Mary Robinette Kowal,
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Well this is bizarre. I was updating my bio on a website and got the warning that, “The text entered may not contain profanity.” Mary Robinette Kowal was the 2008 recipient of the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and a Hugo nominee for her story “Evil Robot Monkey.” Her short fiction has appeared in
I’m having a dress made. Not just any dress, I am having a gown that would be correct for the 1810s, which is when Shades of Milk and Honey is set, so that at the launch party in August I can be appropriately attired. To that end, I took myself to my modiste’s on Tuesday
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This might seem like a silly thing to be pleased about, but I’m now a LibraryThing author, which just means that I have an author page and get a shiny yellow badge next to my personal account. So, to celebrate, I’m giving away an ARC of Shades of Milk and Honey on LibraryThing. Basically, you
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Thanks to the help of loads of people, and after much consideration we got the selection narrowed down to two author photos. I finally decided that I’ll use both. How so? Simple, in Shades of Milk and Honey itself, people already know that I’m a writer so I decided to use one of the puppetry
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