Literally. See?
Thank you for the award, Parking Lot Confessional! We shall treasure this as soon as we’re done shopping and want to drive home.
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And Now, a Single Panel Comic
Listener Mark Van Tassel sent us this gem, along with permission to use it.
Yes, yes. We’ll get around to that “Hero of a Thousand Faces” podcast Any Day Now.
A Clarification For Mary Robinette Kowal
Fifteen minutes long, because we’re in too much of a hurry to report all the facts to you…
We here at Writing Excuses endeavor to give good advice, but we’re not good at telling long, complete stories. In our recent “getting published” episode we accidentally (I SWEAR) misrepresented our good friend Mary Robinette Kowal, and it was an egregious enough error that she decided, quite correctly, to post the actual facts in the comments. It’s comment #27 out of #31 (as of this writing.)
Properly apologizing in these circumstances is a multi-step process. Observe…
Step one: We fall on our swords. Mary, we’re sorry. That was totally our fault, and you’re absolutely right to correct us. We will try to do better in the future, but when we make mistakes like this we pray that others will be as gracious in their settings-straight as you have been.
Step two: We link to the correct information. Scroll down to Mary’s comment.
Step three: We state, for posterity and the record, that Mary Robinette Kowal won the 2008 Campbell award because she was, without question, the best new writer to emerge in publication during the qualifying years. Blogging and other web-centric things may have spread awareness of her work and helped garner the initial nomination, but Mary’s excellence was what ultimately carried the day.
Step four: We announce that our friend Mary has a novel out. Dan has reviewed it. You should buy it.
Step five: Maybe, if we’re careful, we can slide these swords back out of ourselves and stumble off to the hospital for medical attention.
Writing Excuses 4.7: Q&A with James Dashner
Recorded live at LTUE 2010, here’s a high-energy Q&A session with the Writing Excuses crew and our special guest James Dashner, author of The Maze Runner. We cover outlining vs. discovery writing, the return to the hairy palate, education for writers, killing people, whether or not we want a bagel, pragmatic approaches, authors who don’t inspire us (and by “us” we mean “James Dashner”), and cooking up complex plots.
Note: Brandon says “Episode 6” but he was totally wrong. This is 4.7, for real.
Audiobook Pick-of-the-Week: James pitches one of his favorites to us — False Memory by Dean Koontz
Writing Prompt: You’re flying in an airplane when a wing falls off… but the plane keeps going.
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Episode 27 is coming soon…
Sorry! Brandon, Dan, and I recorded episodes 27 and 28 last night, but Jordo is out of town and hasn’t had a chance to prep the files for posting. We should have Episode 3.27 posted tomorrow.
Season 3 Episode 6 Delayed by Holiday Weekend
Last week we recorded four episodes, but apparently they haven’t been dropped into the hopper for posting yet. I blame the long weekend and good barbecue. As soon as the file has been processed by Producer Jordo I’ll start writing it up and get ol’ 3.6 on the air for your edification.
Sorry for the delay! We here at Writing Excuses hope your Independence Day was enjoyable and your weekend long enough.
Late Again… Episode 24
Jordan emailed me from his Blackberry to say that the power is out on his block. The audio file is therefore trapped on a cold disk, so barring Jordan driving over here to my place right now we’re not going to get our second Tracy Hickman episode posted until Monday morning.
In completely unrelated news, I suppose at some point we could do a podcast about “setting expectations vs. fulfilling promises.”
Episode 23 Will Be A Little Late
Jordan and Brandon are both out of town on family business, and neither Dan nor Howard have access to the audio files. So… amuse yourselves by guessing what we will be talking about once the episode is actually posted. (I lay 5:2 odds on your guesses being more interesting topics than what we actually did. Maybe we’ll use some of what you come up with.)