Mickey Maor
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you considered selling "Flowers of Vashoni" on https://www.smashwords.com/ or some other site that would let readers who want a copy in that isn't restricted to a single platform? While it is possible to convert a Kindle to epub it's a hassle
Lois McMaster Bujold
Smashwords apparently has Business Level Issues, that incline my agent to shy away from it. So, no, not at this time.
Meanwhile, I should remind people that Baen.com still offers a number of my e-titles, in assorted formats; folks who care about such things might want to look there. (Not the recent novellas, granted.)
(It often puzzles me why people who have downloaded a story and can presumably thus read it on the spot would wish to convert it, rather than storing it as-is, but that's another religious debate. Having been party to cleaning up the estates of a couple of persons by now, and observing a few more, I will note that nobody is going to want your books after you die, so that reason rather falls down.)
Ta, L.
Meanwhile, I should remind people that Baen.com still offers a number of my e-titles, in assorted formats; folks who care about such things might want to look there. (Not the recent novellas, granted.)
(It often puzzles me why people who have downloaded a story and can presumably thus read it on the spot would wish to convert it, rather than storing it as-is, but that's another religious debate. Having been party to cleaning up the estates of a couple of persons by now, and observing a few more, I will note that nobody is going to want your books after you die, so that reason rather falls down.)
Ta, L.
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Guillermo Martinez
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Dear Lois. I just finished Gentleman Jole and I was delighted by it. I really appreciate you developing the characters to new stages of life, though I admit I miss the more exciting times when they were young. Please accept my heartfelt Thank you for your creative proccess and many good moments spent reading your work. I hope you are planning to keep on writing Miles Books along these lines in the following years?
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Are Kou and Drou’s four daughters the luck of the draw or a deliberate choice? Would knowing how dire the sex ratio had become outweigh the cultural pressure of wanting a son to carry on the family name? Or did they not want to subject a commoner son, no matter how close to the Regent, to having to compete with Vor sons for the available women, given pressure to marry “up”?
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