Mary Robinette Kowal

SF author & professional puppeteer
The thing I can’t believe about Game of ThronesSo my husband and I have finally started watching the HBO series Game of Thrones. Everyone has…View Post

The thing I can’t believe about Game of Thrones

So my husband and I have finally started watching the HBO series Game of Thrones. Everyone has…

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wtfevolution:

“Check out this awesome dance move I invented.”

“Oh god, evolution, please stop doing that.”

“What? It’s called ‘pronking.’ All the springbok are into it.”

“I can’t take you anywhere.”

Pronk for joy.

(Source: BBC)

Regency ladies in a Pirates of the Caribbean show downThis is one of my favorite photos from my recent book tour. The members of theOregon Regency SocietyView Post

Regency ladies in a Pirates of the Caribbean show down

This is one of my favorite photos from my recent book tour. The members of theOregon Regency Society

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Reminder: I’m reading at The Book Cellar in Chicago with Stacey Kade. Tonight!

I’m reading with Stacey Kade at the Book Cellar tonight at 7pm.  I’ll be reading from Without a Summer and Stacey will be reading from The Rules, her new YA science-fiction novel. Come out! The Book Cellar has wine…

As a former award-winning corporate…

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Writing Excuses 8.19: Writing and Convention Culture

There are numerous local cultures surrounding writers, writing groups, and the conventions that writers attend. These cultural peculiarities influence the writing that emerges from those areas.

As writers, it’s important to be aware that this is…

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Heading to Milwaukee to read at Boswell’s tonight at 7pm.View Post

Heading to Milwaukee to read at Boswell’s tonight at 7pm.

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Book Review: ‘Without a Summer’ by Mary Robinette Kowal

Many of Jane Austen’s contemporary readers consider her magical. Mary Robinette Kowal went one step further and made her so.

Jane Ellsworth, the Austen-inspired heroine of three Kowal novels to date, lives the kind of British Regency era life an Austen…

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I’m teaching a short story intensive June 28th-30th

I’m teaching a short story intensive June 28th-30th. Registration opens on May 20th.

Online Ticketing for A weekend of Short Story instruction powered by Eventbrite

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Hey North Carolina! I’m coming home for the weekend

Hey North Carolina! I’m coming home for the weekend. Come hear me read in Raleigh?

I grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina so it makes me very happy to be going there to read at Quail Ridge Books. Friday the 10th, I’ll be reading at 7:30.

Quail Ridge Books
3522 Wade Avenue
Raleigh,NC 27607

I’m coming with the full Regency costume and the…

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Recommend an audiobook, win a copy of the audio WITHOUT A SUMMERThe good folks at Audible.com have offered to give a copy of the audio version of Without a Summert…View Post

Recommend an audiobook, win a copy of the audio WITHOUT A SUMMER

The good folks at Audible.com have offered to give a copy of the audio version of Without a Summert…

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