“Ship, actually.” She tilted her head toward me just slightly, her attention still on the tea. Mercy of Kalr mostly communicated with its crew via auditory or visual implants, speaking directly into our ears or placing words or images in our visions. It was doing this now, I could see, Seivarden reading words that Ship […]
At the counter at the end of the three-by-four-meter room, Seivarden stood, making tea. With the old enamel set and only two bowls, one of them chipped, a casualty of Seivarden’s early, inept attempts to be useful, more than a year ago.
Here we go! Paragraph 1 of Chapter 1 of Ancillary Mercy. One moment asleep. Awake the next, to the familiar small noises of someone making tea. But it was six minutes earlier than I’d intended. Why? I reached. Yeah, those are some beeny little sentences. That’s why I’m doing paragraphs at least some of the […]
Or, actually, “the winners are.” So! There were fifty-two entries. Or, technically, fifty-two entrants. Several of those included more than one proposed concluding line. A few of those were actually from different people in the same household or at least sharing the same email address. I hadn’t said anything about multiple entries, so I let […]
Like the title says. I was poking around Adagio Tea, and discovered that they now sell single sample tins of fandom blends. They’re a little pricey at $4 each–the site says they make about five cups, obviously this depends on how much you use, but that’s eighty cents a cup. Compare that to the per […]
So, the whole “peas in guacamole” thing, I just find it…I don’t know. First off, you know, if someone finds that guacamole with peas in it tastes good, they should eat that and enjoy the heck out of it. Why not? Why not. I gather I’m only seeing the edges of this, apparently actual news […]
Or, more accurately, the limerick. Those of you who have read Ancillary Sword may remember that at a certain point, Breq asks someone to tell her, in verse, how God is like a duck. And that person replies, There once was a duck who was God, Who said, “It’s exceedingly odd. I fly when I […]
Sorry for the delay in posting–I’ve been back in St Louis since Sunday, but I’ve spent the last three days on jury duty, about which I will at the moment say nothing else. Today I plan to lounge around drinking tea in my jammies! So. Apologies again to the folks who came to the mass […]
“Show, don’t tell” is one of my all time unfavorite of the commonly passed around “rules of writing.” It’s also one of the most poorly understood. A lot of the “rules” that get handed from writer to writer are just silly. At best they’re applicable to one sort of story, at worst they’re head-scratchingly ridiculous. […]
So, the awesome Fran Wilde interviewed me for Geek Mom. And you can enter a giveaway for (if I understand correctly) either a copy each of Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword, or tea chosen by me. The tea will certainly be one of the Imperial Radch blends. So, click on over, read, enter if you’re […]