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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The August issue of Booklist reviews Shades of Milk and Honey Take Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and add a dash of magic and you have this delightful story by Mary Kowal. This is the story of two sisters, Jane, who is more magically talented, and Melody, a stunning beauty, and their quest to find love
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The item on today’s schedule to which I wish to draw your attention is the Shades of Milk and Honey launch tonight. Friday 10:00 AM — RCC 306B Longevity Panel Mary Robinette Kowal, Henry Stratmann 2:00 PM – RCC 306B Editing: The Necessary Evil of Publishing John Hertz [m], Dan Hoyt, Chris A Jackson, Mary Robinette Kowal,
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A week from today, August 11th at 7 pm, I’ll be reading and signing books at Powell’s Cedar Hills Crossing store in Beaverton. Please come! But if you can’t and want a signed copy of the book, you can order a signed copy of Shades of Milk and Honey Signed Edition from Powell’s Books.
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I’m completely thrilled with this review from The Book Pushers! Be warned that it does contain some minor spoilers. I found Shades of Milk and Honey to be the utmost charming read that features the touch of magic and the fantastical. While in some ways this is an adaptation, in other ways, it’s completely different.
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Ta-da! Here is my schedule for NasFic in Raleigh, NC. Who will I see there? Thursday 3:00 PM — RCC 305B Schmoozing: How to Network at a Con Davey Beauchamp [m], Dan Kimmel, Mary Robinette Kowal 4:00 PM — RCC 305A Reading I’ll be reading from Shades of Milk and Honey. Not surprisingly… Friday 10:00 AM
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Debuts and Reviews has some fair complaints about the Austen connection but an overall favorable review. Shades of Milk and Honey is today’s Big Idea at Scalzi’s Whatever I’m interviewed about Shades of Milk and Honey at Starship Sofa WIRED’s GeekDad column covers the trailer. AND my wonderful agent is giving away a copy of
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Today Shades of Milk and Honey is officially a published novel. I have to say that sitting here in my bathrobe with a cat curled up in my lap today does not feel externally different from yesterday. There are no fireworks going off outside. And yet… I’m aware that I’ve published a novel. That sentence
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I just picked up my Nook and discovered that the ebook of Shades of Milk and Honey had downloaded to it. I believe this means that release day has arrived on the East Coast.
I’m subscribed to the Tor/Forge newsletter because there have been some nifty giveaways and interviews in there. The funny thing here is that I forgot that I gave them an article for the newsletter and so was surprised to see my name today even though I knew darn well to expect it because my novel
There’s more information about the novel and the people behind the traler at http://www.ShadesOfMilkAndHoney.com/trailer. I will shamelessly ask that you pass that link around to anyone that you think might like it. Meanwhile, I thought you might like to know a little about how the trailer is made. We’re using a style of puppetry called
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Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing, says very nice things! Shades of Milk and Honey is the hotly anticipated debut novel from Mary Robinette Kowal, who has already made a name for herself in science fiction with a series out outstanding short stories. It’s a Regency drawing-room romance, told in pitch-perfect style, with one important difference: these
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I went over to Miss V–‘s for the second fitting of the spencer. The photo does not do it justice but wait until you see the finished garment. For this fitting, she wanted to confirm that everything had lined up before she stitched together the lining and the exterior. Since she had trued the garment,
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One of the useful side effects of having a caffeine intolerance is that it doesn’t take very much to help me with pulling an all-nighter. As you might guess, Rob and I wound up staying up through the night to finish the trailer for Shades of Milk and Honey. He’s going to be at the
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The fellow who is doing the special effects for the Shades of Milk and Honey book trailer is a BAFTA award winning special effects supervisor who I know from Lazytown. Remo Balcells has worked on films like The Fifth Element and Final Fantasy. He’s currently doing FX for Hawaii Five-0. Tonight he emailed to say