Robin Sloan

Hey where did you find us?

Thanks for the link to us. I’m a stu­dent at The Chil­dren School. The entire sev­enth grade has read and enjoys your work more than any of the other books on the list. My per­sonal favorites are Mr. Penumbra’s 24-​​Hour Book­store and The Writer and the Witch. 

I can’t wait for your Kick­starter book to come out. Since your shorts are good, your long story should be even better.

@Tobin: Just your basic inter­net epi­demi­ol­ogy. I saw a lit­tle flurry of hits this morn­ing all com­ing from the tcsnmy7 blog, so I clicked over and checked it out.

@Anthony: I hope you like the book! I have to say, the expe­ri­ence sur­prised me. It was not like writ­ing a very long short story—like run­ning ten miles instead of two. Instead, it was like switch­ing sports—like going from base­ball to foot­ball. Sure, it required a lot of the same (men­tal) mus­cles… but really, it was a whole dif­fer­ent game.

I loved The Writer and the Witch. Thank you for get­ting in touch with our students.

Hey Robin, I also go to The Children’s School. I loved “The Wrong Plane.” It’s fan­tas­tic. That was such an awe­some idea to write it on a plane. I never can find a way to occupy myself when I’m fly­ing. I also enjoyed your “Dance Party on Jef­fer­son Avenue”. I can­not think of any bet­ter short sto­ries. Like Anthony I too am look­ing for­ward to your longer book.

Hello Robin, I am also part of The Children’s School, and i really liked your short sto­ries. I find it really cool that you wrote your, “Wrong plane” book on just one flight

Neat! I’m glad you guys liked “The Wrong Plane.”

It’s inter­est­ing; when it comes to cre­ative projects, peo­ple often think that what they need is more time, more time. I think it’s often the oppo­site. Sharp dead­lines (even crazy dead­lines, like five-​​hour plane flight dead­lines) are a great moti­va­tor, and—more importantly—they force you to really focus and decide on a chunk of work that you can actu­ally fin­ish. Fin­ish­ing things (and shar­ing them) is impor­tant. There are def­i­nitely some parts of “The Wrong Plane” that I’m not sat­is­fied with, but I’d much rather have it done, and out here where you guys can enjoy it, than sit­ting half-​​finished on my hard drive.