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Mary Robinette Kowal

Author and professional puppeteer, The Calculating Stars

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Their 2013 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account

We retrieved 25 posts and 968 comments from u/maryrobinette, dated 2013 to 2025, most often in r/Fantasy, r/books and r/KingkillerChronicle.

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A redditor posted in r/AmItheAsshole

AITA for making our guests participate in our puppet themed wedding?

u/MaryRobinette replied

YTA I'm a professional puppeteer and I think it's lovely that you want puppets incorporated into your wedding. But it's a physically demanding gig and asking people to use muscles that they've never engaged before FOR HOURS will be exhausting…

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YTA I'm a professional puppeteer and I think it's lovely that you want puppets incorporated into your wedding.

But it's a physically demanding gig and asking people to use muscles that they've never engaged before FOR HOURS will be exhausting, painful, and no fun. It'll also lead to a room filled with dead puppets as people abandon them out of pain or just forget about them.

You know how bad bad puppetry is. Do you really want to look at a room of terribly manipulated puppets. It'll make your teeth hurt.

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A redditor wrote in r/Fantasy

On “Hello, reddit! I am speculative fiction writer Mary Robinette Kowal. AMA”

You've worked with a lot of "big name" authors. Have any humorous stories about working with them that you can share without them putting a price on your head?

u/MaryRobinette replied

I was hanging out at Penguicon with Scalzi, Tobias Buckell, Cherie Priest, and Pat Rothfuss. Scalzi was given Pat grief about Name of the Wind and how he started the novel in a tavern and they were eating stew and…

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I was hanging out at Penguicon with Scalzi, Tobias Buckell, Cherie Priest, and Pat Rothfuss. Scalzi was given Pat grief about Name of the Wind and how he started the novel in a tavern and they were eating stew and crusty bread.

Pat protested that they were not eating crusty bread and stew.

So I picked up a copy of the book, which I hadn't read yet, and flipped to the first chapter and read, "He broke a piece of crusty bread into his stew."

Pat clapped his hands to his face like he'd been left home alone. "Nooooo!!! I didn't. Oh noooo."

"No." I closed the book. "I just made that up."

u/MaryRobinette posted in r/Fantasy

I made the dress that's on the cover of the final book in my series. Making of post.

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