I’m giving away a copy of Shades of Milk and Honey on Goodreads. The drawing ends on July 20th and I will send the copy the moment I have it in my hot little hands so that some lucky person will get the novel before it hits the stores. Don’t worry if you aren’t a member […]
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From the June 15th edition of Library Journal comes this really lovely review of Shades of Milk and Honey Readers will be disappointed only when they finish this enchanting story, which is suffused with genteel charm. The author’s judicious and effective changes to aspects of daily life clearly communicate how similar but different this world
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I think this might be my favorite review of all time. Dan Wells, author of I Am Not A Serial Killer. Apparently, Shades of Milk and Honey has left him somewhat irked. It’s a shame, because this review just makes me giggle. Here’s the problem: Mary Robinette Kowal is too good. Not only is she
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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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Want to know something that makes me very happy? There’s going to be an audio book of Shades of Milk and Honey from MacMillan Audio. Want to know something that makes me giggle with delight? I’ll be the narrator for the audio book. It’s set for simultaneous release with the hardcover of Shades of Milk
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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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One of the things that I had heard other novelists talk about, but never seen, was the style sheet for their novels. The copyeditor for a given novel generates a style sheet to as a tool for the typesetter and proofreader to make sure that the novel is consistent. It includes a definition of house
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Edited to add:The following chapter is the rough draft I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2006 and is posted in unedited form. The finished book came out in 2010 from Tor, edited by Liz Gorinsky. You may read the final, published version of the first chapter, if you’d like to compare the two.
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