# Mary Robinette Kowal on Reddit (u/maryrobinette)

Part of Creators on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/creators-on-reddit/mary-robinette-kowal

Mary Robinette Kowal: Author and professional puppeteer, The Calculating Stars.

- Reddit account: [u/maryrobinette](https://www.reddit.com/user/maryrobinette/) (Personal account)
- How we know it's theirs: [Their 2013 r/Fantasy AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1bo12x/hello_reddit_i_am_speculative_fiction_writer_mary/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/Fantasy (822), r/books (85), r/KingkillerChronicle (15), r/scifi (12), r/AskHistorians (9), r/violinist (8)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2013 to 2025
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Robinette_Kowal

## Moments

### u/MaryRobinette in r/AmItheAsshole, Jul 23, 2022 · Normal redditor

Replying to the post "AITA for making our guests participate in our puppet themed wedding?".

> 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.

(Excerpt.)
Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/w4z647/comment/ihd4n69/ · 54 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/MaryRobinette in r/Fantasy, Apr 5, 2013 · Funny

Replying to a redditor:

> 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?

> 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."

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1bo12x/comment/c98r3zy/ · 35 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/MaryRobinette in r/Fantasy, Sep 8, 2014 · Hobby

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

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/2ftqlh/i_made_the_dress_thats_on_the_cover_of_the_final/ · 71 points as of Nov 7, 2026