Today I had the simple task of flipping a sheet over Bessie’s head. Ahahaha. Right. The illusion we were going for was that she was hanging laundry and that a sheet fell back over her, momentarily making her look like a ghost. The trouble, as always, is that I had to do this over my head. In rehearsal I managed to do it with ease, but the moment the camera came on, I kept flipping the sheet behind her or getting caught on the clothesline over our head. I finally figured out that if I asked Emily, the other assistant puppeteer, to anchor part of the sheet, that I could flip the rest of it over Bessie. Once we figured that out, we got it in one take.

I think it looked good but it was maddening getting there.

The newest issue of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show has an audio bonus of one of Mr. Card’s stories, read by me. It was just reviewed at SFFAudio

An excerpt:

Quite short, only 9 minutes, this is ably read by Mary Robinette Kowal who manipulates her voice in all the right ways to lend classic fairy tale reading to this modern fable. In addition to being a terrific narrator, Kowal is a professional puppeteer who also moonlights as speculative fiction author.