David asked Mary Robinette Kowal:

How did you end up in contact with and are you still in contact with Devin from Smarter Every Day? I'd already read Seveneves but I don't believe I'd heard your name before. After watching his rocket video on youtube and hearing you talk about your book, I headed for the local library and have now finished (and quite enjoyed) the first two books of the Lady Astronaut series and have the third one on hold.

Mary Robinette Kowal We have mutual friends! And it turned out that, in the grand scheme of things, he lived close enough to come up to visit.

What's the ratio of time that you spend between writing the first draft(s) of a novel (say all the work before you show it to someone else for the first time) and the time that you spend on editing/revising it before it sees publication?

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