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The USC Scripter Awards - Diversity

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It's Awards Season - specifically, USC Scripter Awards time - which I've already established is the coolest awards event on the planet . You know, because I have the credentials and clout to establish such things. The short explanation for my fangirly enthusiasm is this: The USC Scripter Awards honors both the author of the original work (novelist), and the screenwriter who adapted that work into a film. The long version is somewhat more complicated, and it involves a little word with a very, very big meaning: Diversity. Now my white-girl, middle class upbringing establishes about as much in the way of credentials and clout to discuss this as my proclamation of the Scripter Awards' coolness. But stay with me here, because I'm going to veer around in some pretty big arcs before I come back to my point. Patrick Rothfuss, author of the Kingkiller Chronicles , and blogger, speaker, gamer, and philanthropist extraordinaire, spoke to a group of authors a

Changing Nature is live!

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Everything about this book makes me happy. Those are bold words, I know, and I may be setting some people up for disappointment (I apologize profusely if I have), but I'm stepping out on that ice and saying it anyway. I love this book. People have asked which of my books is my favorite, and I always responded that it was like asking which of my children was my favorite. Good thing I only have two kids, because now I have a favorite. I still love the other books, but there was so much emotional turmoil wrapped up in writing them that my experience of them is collapsed in it. Marking Time - my first book - had all the first-book-angst. Did it suck? Would anyone read it? Was I delusional to think I could do this? Who was going to care about these people I made up and spent two and a half years writing? And Tempting Fate - book two - had all the sophomore effort fears attached. Did it suck? Could I pull off the weird alchemy book one seemed to have? Would anyone still care ab

So this is happening...

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