Once a quarter Mary Robinette hosts a Book Club for her Patreon members and brings in the author of the book or short story we read together to chat with. She’s delighted that she got to bring in Liza Palmer e to talk about her book “Family Reservations”. Below you’ll find the first 27 minutes
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I recently had a chance to sit down with the wonderful Wil Wheaton in an interview put together by Audible. Wil and I had a fantastic time talking about audiobook narration, writing, and acting. You may listen to the interview in its entirety here: Timestamps 0:00 – Introductions for Mary Robinette Kowal and Wil Wheaton
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I spent the day at Grandma’s today and we got to talking about her mother. She told me stories I hadn’t heard about her first job, and then about her housekeeper who lived in disguise… No. Really. EDITED TO ADD: I got Grandma to talk more about her housekeeper. She had remembered that it had
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Meet my 106-year old Grandma. My dad, on fiddle, and his friend stopped by to play for her today. I learned that my great-grandfather played the fiddle. After the camera was off, I also found out that Grandma used to play the slide guitar. What’s really crazy? I recorded this on my phone and Grandma
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A mashup of… No. You just have to watch it to believe it. (Hat tip to Lee Moyer)
Rudolph (You Don’t Have To Put On The Red Light) Read More »
Wow. It should not surprise me that this is an impressive trailer given that its provenance. Kevin McTurk, the creator, has been doing amazing work in puppetry for years. This film will be appearing in Heather Henson’s Handmade Puppet Dreams 2012 series. Looking forward to that in big, big ways. The Narrative of Victor Karloch
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You might have to be a puppeteer to find this hilarious. Rest assured, that it is.
Funny video: Todd the Puppet Master Workshop #1 Read More »
Well, this video amused me. A lot. The Serenading Unicorn was created by the Henson Company and performed by Allan Trautman. via puppeteers unite
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While I was in Utah at the Superstars Writing Seminar, I did a very fast version of my “How to Give an Effective Reading” workshop. I do this talk at conventions when I get the chance and have the text of the longer version here on the site. BUT while I was there Stephen Nelson
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For Valentine’s Day, allow me to introduce you to the budding love story between our cat and the dog upstairs. Our neighbors were going out of town so we offered to take care of their pets while they were on their trip. Two cats, one dog. Our neighbor stopped by with Nick, the dog, to
Cats and Dogs, living together! Video of how Harriet met Nick. Read More »
While I was in Utah I joined Dan Wells and Howard Tayler, of Writing Excuses, for a conversation with Dave Wolverton about movie considerations and formulas. Dave explained the three-act structure to us, and we talked about how this applies for transitioning stories to the screen. As always, you can listen to this at Writing Excuses
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Rob is listening to Jake Shimabukuro’s live album and his rendition of Michael Jackson’s Thriller just came on. Oddly, it makes me more aware of the musicality of the piece than all the zombies did.
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I just ran across this video which I sort of love because it pokes fun at Portland with so much love. Watch it and if you live here you’ll know exactly what I mean. Apparently it’s promoting a t.v. series called Portlandia.
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Today was absolutely lovely. In this order, I sat by the fire, opened presents, played in the snow, napped, ate leftovers. There was some cleaning involved as well, but it did little to diminish the pleasures of the day. Why cleaning? Besides the carnage of the wrapping paper, thirty-three members of our extended family came
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