Hatrack River Writers Workshop Hosted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury • Introduction • Enter the Forum Write to Kathleen Dalton Woodbury Former Boot Campers Success Stories • Chris Todd Miller • Jessi Cole Jackson • Brian McClellan • Ty Franck • 2008 Bootcamp • S.D. Smith • John Brown • Brad Beaulieu • Jamie Ford • Judson Roberts • Danielle Friedman • Scott Andrews • Christine Amsden • Patricia Esden • Rick Novy • Aliette de Bodard • Alethea Kontis • Mary Robinette Kowal • Scott Roberts • Mette Harrison • Eric James Stone • James Maxey • Luc Reid • Douglas Cohen Links of Interest • OSC urges writers to look at this LA Times interview with mystery writer Robert Crais Says OSC: "Crais, one of my favorite writers, has come quite independently to many of the same conclusions I've reached - and which I've taught in my writing workshops for years. It's nice to have an independent source for the ideas! Besides, Crais is an outstanding writer who deserves to be listened to for his own sake." • Parker column: A writer teaches writing • Garrison Keillor's Excellent Advice about MFA Programs • Want a critique of your manuscript from a published author? Mette Ivie Harrison has been praised as one of the finest writers of fantasy and YA literature working today - and she has taught writing workshops with OSC • Bernard Cornwell shares OSC's emphasis on story, letting the author's voice take care of itself. (Thanks to Scott Roberts for pointing this out.) • Comments on Uncle Orson’s Literary Boot Camp • Hatrack Utility Belt • Tor Submissions Guidelines • Using invented language in speculative fiction

Mary Robinette Kowal sells fantasy novel to Tor

Shades of Milk and Honey (Tor, 2010) is a regency romance written as if Jane Austen lived in a world where magic worked.

In my version of Regency England, glamour - pulling magic from the ether - is considered one of the womanly arts, like painting, dancing or playing the piano. It takes energy, just as running up a hill might, so young ladies who perform glamour are constantly in danger of fainting. Jane Ellsworth, an accomplished amateur glamourist, and her sister Melody are both in love with the same man. Jane is convinced that she is too plain to ever know love, and that her best hope is to help her sister get married.

When two eligible young men come to the neighborhood, Jane watches as her sister flirts with both the dashing Captain Livingston and Mr. Vincent, the renowned glamourist. Jane does not realize, until too late, that Captain Livingston is a rogue, set on taking advantage of her sister. In a desperate bid to save her sister from ruin, Jane pushes her skills at glamour to the limits of what her body can withstand.

Congratulations to former 2005 Bootcamper Mary Robinette Kowal. She has made her first pro-sale to Strange Horizons. It's due out in early 2006. She has also recorded one of her short stories for The First Line's online audio fiction series.