Obinna
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
how long did it take for you to get the resources and connections to be well known name in the reading world ?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm not quite sure how to parse this question. Skipping over my youthful efforts and starting the count in late 1982, I wrote 3 novels in 3 years, sold them all to Baen in late 1985, and tried to produce a book a year thereafter. Lather, rinse, repeat for thirty years, and here I am. Submitting my 4th novel Falling Free to Analog for serialization probably helped my early visibility, as well as winning my first Nebula with it.
"Resources" and "connections" are pointless without "productivity". Cart, horse...
Ta, L.
"Resources" and "connections" are pointless without "productivity". Cart, horse...
Ta, L.
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Catherine Nemeth
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Other than being raised with a strong moral code and sense of noblesse oblige, it seems that despite the Council of Counts and the Ministers, the only real check of the Emperor’s power is the threat of the Emperor becoming disliked enough to send enough popular support over to a relative to win a coup, hence Yuri’s Massacre and Barrayar’s stated bloody history. Or has there been a balancing act of power shifts?
Julia
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I wonder if you have ever dreamed about any of your characters? Have they or settings/places from your books ever "showed up" in a dream, in any context? Any examples of a character from the Vorkosigan saga interacting with a character from the 5 God series? Do you recall ever having a dream that helped you figure out a plot point or given you aid in your writing? Thank you so much for considering my question.
David F.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Can you imagine Miles volunteering with a suicide prevention charity? "Don't do it! Being dead didn't solve any of my problems at all, they were all here when they brought me back plus this lousy seizure disorder. The afterlife is totally unmemorable, I don't remember anything between dying and being defrosted." Unless you want to argue that his physical brain didn't go and couldn't record it, Miles would have questio
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