So… not that I’m hinting in GIANT LETTERS or anything, but the Hugo ballot deadline is today and I have this story on the ballot… Votes are due in by Sunday, July 31, 2011, 11:59pm PDT. That’s, um tonight. Even if you waited until the last minute, you can at least read the short story […]
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I’m back from Seattle, where I had a lovely time visiting with writerly type folks. I took the train back. It was half an hour late pulling into Seattle, but made up time so we were only about fifteen minutes late arriving in Portland. Now… let me explain why I take the train instead of
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After a relaxing morning, I’m heading back from Seattle. Based on a picture of this pet, which author was I visiting?
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I came up on the train today to be a Mystery Muse at Clarion West. I didn’t want to mention that I was headed toward Seattle just in case the students — who should be writing — noticed that I was coming and guessed. Nisi Shawl and I chatted with them for a little over
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I just posted the draft of Chapter 26 of The Transfigured Lady, for those of you reading along. I’m in the process of writing Chapter 29 right now. In my outline, there are 31 chapters, but I’m looking at where I am and where I need to get and suspect that I will wind up
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While I was at the Nebulas, Jean Marie Ward interviewed me about fiction, puppetry and Regency costumes.
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Today I taught my first class via Google Hangouts and thought I’d share what I learned. This is a workshop that I teach on reading aloud and I’ve done it often enough that I felt like it was a good test case for the hangouts since I know what “normal” is for it. Registration —
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Boy, it’s amazing how much faster things go when I finally cut the subplot that wasn’t working. I’d really been bogging down and having trouble figuring out what the story was stalling on. Thanks to my intrepid alpha readers* I spotted the problem, excised it and things seem to be clipping along. Although I’m expecting
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I know! It was a two chapter day, what can I tell you. Actually, one of the chapters took crazy amounts of time to get where I wanted it but then today, I wrapped it and another chapter, so whee! You get both Chapter 23 and Chapter 24. At Readercon, I read Chapter one and
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Here’s where to find me at Readercon today. Assuming my flight isn’t further delayed. 8:00 PM F Mastering the Puppets. Erik Amundsen, Gwendolyn Clare, John Crowley, Mary Robinette Kowal (leader), Barry N. Malzberg.Catherynne M. Valente uses the phrase “touching the puppets” as critical shorthand for protagonists–and, by extension, stories–interacting with fantastical elements rather than merely coexisting with them.
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I had a productive day in D.C. yesterday working on next year’s 47th Annual Nebula Awards with Peggy Rae Sapienza. The Awards weekend should be a good deal of fun. I’m staying at their home, which is lovely, and it makes me oddly homesick. I grew up in North Carolina in a neighborhood of the
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