Thanks! Always a pleasure to discover (or rediscover) the gems you create in your works. I loved the:
"As a writer, I have found him to be a wonderful character to work with. Other more sensible and sane protagonists have to be manipulated like crazy to get them out of their ruts and started on their plots. Miles merely has to be pointed in the general direction of the problem. Snap off his leash, and he's off and running, with his author laboring to keep up."
and
"My father, a professor of engineering, used to say he didn't bother changing his tests from year to year, because while the questions were the same, the answers changed. I think this is true of a person's maturing life, as well. As Miles (and I) grew older, he too discovered, often the hard way, that the answers change."

I've often found it difficult to summarise your work. As you don't like to repeat yourself (a feature I like), there's no simple, single category to use.

Oh, and in all the time I've been reading your work -since 1989 (sorry I was late 😂) - I don't recall ever seeing your middle name.

Hi Lois, I have been corresponding with someone who claims to be you with this email address loismcmasterb@gmail.com this email address has connected me with your agent Eleanor Wood is this actually you? Thank you for your time.

The SF Encyclopedia article was really on the nose. Thanks for the link!

Amanda wrote: "Hi Lois, I have been corresponding with someone who claims to be you with this email address loismcmasterb@gmail.com this email address has connected me with your agent Eleanor Wood is this actuall..."

Absolutely not!

This appears to be the same scammer who was impersonating me on X/Twitter and Mastodon a while back. Apparently their protocol is to engage the person in some conversation, and then try to sell them some kind of writing/editing scam.

I had probably better make a top level blog post about this, again.

Thanks, L.