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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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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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
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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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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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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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After much discussion with V.B., my modiste, we decided that I would order this dress in a cream sprigged muslin. It is period correct and shows a high attention to detail and craftsmanship. Plus, Historika is making my chemise and petticoat so it made sense to have her do them all. Sadly, Historika emailed me
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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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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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Lo! It is a real book! I got four ARCs of Shades of Milk and Honey in the mail today. FOUR. It is the first time I’ve held it in book form and it makes me all giggly like a starlet on Iron Chef, eating squid. Um… that’s a good thing, honest. Clearly, this isn’t
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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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