My flight was further delayed, but that was just fine. I sat down and this charming gentleman settled into the seat next to mine. I noticed that his reading material was Naomi Mitchison’s Travel Light, from Small Beer Press. Naturally, this merited comment, as it made it almost certain that he was also coming from […]
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I managed to finish this story at WisCon. Yay! It’s 5800 words of urban fantasy. It’s in a password protected post, but it’s the usual password. Don’t know what that is? Drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. And here’s the teaser. Half-consciously, Kim put a hand up to cover her new nose ring.
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So a funny thing happened on my way to Wiscon. I mentioned that my flight was oversold and I volunteered to go on a later flight, right? The airline gave me a food voucher so I wandered over to the nearest kiosk. As I was standing in line, a woman said, “Mary Robinette Kowal!” I
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The Interstitial Arts Foundation is auctioning some pretty nifty items. Every day they add two new items. Check it out. IAFAuctions.com is part of the fundraising arm of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, a not–for–profit organization dedicated to the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art. Currently, we’re auctioning off jewelry based on stories from the
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Clarkesworld does the very smart thing of making electronic advance review copies available for the magazine. Joe Sherry at Adventures in Reading reviewed “The Clockwork Chickadee” and includes what is my now my favorite compliment ever. The story is, in turn, playful and charming, well thought out and deliberate, and Kowal appears to have written
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There’s an interview with me up on J. M. McDermott’s blog, which you should check out if you’ve ever wanted to know how I got started in puppetry.
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Jason Sizemore, editor of Apex Digest, is holding a subscription drive. Since I’m in the next issue, I have a vest interest in helping him get the 150 new subscribers he wants. Like science-fiction and horror? Then this is your magazine. Subscriptions are a measly $20 for 4 issues in the US. $24 for Canada/Mexico.
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SF Signal The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2 edited by George Mann and gives it an overall favorable rating. Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Evil Robot Monkey” is an affecting snapshot in the life of a chimp with an implant in his head that increases his intelligence. Unfortunately for him, that lands him in
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SF Signal does a feature, called Mind Meld, where they ask several different writers the same question. This weeks question asks Is the Short Fiction Market in Trouble? One of the many perennial arguments in the science fiction blogosphere centers on the health of the short fiction market, so we turned the Mind Meld microphone
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Jennifer Jackson is answering questions about agenting, on her LJ. And today she was talking about the role of net-working and conferences. It’s worth reading, but she basically says that all the net-working in the world won’t make a difference if the book isn’t good. Then she says: On the other hand, Elizabeth Bear introduced
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The Fix gave a lovely favorable review to The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume 2, edited by George Mann. It included this bit: Mary Robinette Kowal’s “Evil Robot Monkey,†the shortest piece in this anthology, is a smart tale about monkeys with implants and a cautionary tale of how intelligence can sometimes be
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Every sale makes me happy, but some sales really tickle me. This is one is a very happy thing. My first three sales were to The First Line so I have a very soft spot for them. The magazine has a simple premise. The first line of a story is so important, but if you
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I think I wrote almost all of this story on the subway. 2500 words of clockwork. It’s in a password protected post, but it’s the usual password. Don’t know what that is? Drop me a line and I’ll tell ya. And here’s the teaser. The clockwork chickadee was not as pretty as the nightingale. But
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