S Wright
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Having read and re-read all your works that I can find through many stages of my life I continue to identify with all your depictions of motherhood, both internal and external. Currently my oldest is on the cusp of adulthood, and although I see external descriptions of this stage of parenting, I've searched and not found the internal depiction I'm craving. Have you any plans from this POV?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not per se, but it's an interesting conundrum. Approximately ten million tales from the points of view of teens, almost none from their parents (the Enemy, usually, in coming-of-age tales, as is older authority generally.) Mothers, parents, and domesticity are perceived by many readers to be the antithesis of exciting stories.
Don Sakers had some musings on the topic, if this link still works:
https://web.archive.org/web/201611232...
Ta, L.
Not per se, but it's an interesting conundrum. Approximately ten million tales from the points of view of teens, almost none from their parents (the Enemy, usually, in coming-of-age tales, as is older authority generally.) Mothers, parents, and domesticity are perceived by many readers to be the antithesis of exciting stories.
Don Sakers had some musings on the topic, if this link still works:
https://web.archive.org/web/201611232...
Ta, L.
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David Wooddell
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Another theme I notice in your books is age differences between lovers or in relationships. Sharing knife featured a young woman, Dawn, and Dag, the old Patroller. In the Vorkosigan series, you have some major age differences between Gentleman Jolie and Ceclia. Have you personally experienced such wide differences in age in your own relationships, or those of your friends or family?
Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I gather that there is a nod to Lady Peter Wimsey (Harriet Vane) in Ekaterine Vorvayne. But is there a reverse homage (as far as you know) when Harriet makes it a major project to herself create a garden in the footprint or outline of the burnt-out wing of Duke's Denver (in Jill Paton Walsh's "The Attenbury Emeralds")?
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