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Greetings, Grammar Pellusians. I'm Minion Fogarty, and I am here with your bonus segment with

Mary Robinette Cole, who we just talked

about overcoming barriers to writing in the main segment. If you haven't heard that, go listen to that

first because it's fabulous. It'll get you, you know, sitting down and doing the work you actually

want to do. But Mary Robinette, you are just this amazing novelist. I've been enjoying your,

no, really, I have been enjoying your books for at least a decade. Oh, thank you. Yeah. And so,

I don't know, and I noticed, you know, they have changed over the years. Do you want to talk about

sort of your evolution from your first book, which was sort of a

regents, the first book that I read of yours was sort of a regency? Yeah, that was my first novel,

so. Was it? Okay. I read that. And then, you know, yeah, now you're doing, you know, like,

this amazing sci-fi and other, in the Lady Astronaut Series. So I'd just love to hear

about your evolution during your career. Yeah. So I've always loved reading and writing

science fiction and fantasy. And I, when we sold the first book, Shades of Milk and Honey,

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