Lois Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just a note to Goodreads users about the inadvisability of using the public Q&A column for private questions... to which the short answer is, please DON'T... ?
Lois McMaster Bujold
One or two times a month, I get a question posted to my Goodreads Q&A that is not a question about my work, but rather, some obviously personal message or request that cannot be answered privately in this column. Anything that goes up here is for all eyes to see. Please stop handing me the dilemma of trying to guess whether it would be worse to appear to blow the questioner off by not answering at all, or embarrassing us both by trying to answer here. Use the Goodreads private messaging system for such queries -- that's what it's for.
(A separate subcategory are "questions" that are actually the OP's attempt to parasitize my space for promoting their own self-published work, with not only no relation to my work, but no relation to my genres. Despite my sympathy for (not to mention memory of) the desperation of being an aspiring clueless newbie, I have steeled myself to start deleting those unanswered.)
Ta, L.
(A separate subcategory are "questions" that are actually the OP's attempt to parasitize my space for promoting their own self-published work, with not only no relation to my work, but no relation to my genres. Despite my sympathy for (not to mention memory of) the desperation of being an aspiring clueless newbie, I have steeled myself to start deleting those unanswered.)
Ta, L.
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Gard Evyr
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Lois what is it about the midwest region like Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc. that produces so many of the top writers (serious, non quipy question)? From you, to Rothfuss(Wisconsin), Scott Lynch(Minnesota), Brent Weeks(Montana), NK Jemison(Iowa), Brandon Sanderson (Nebraska), etc. But in particular Minnesota/Wisconsin often seems like some sort of hotspot. Is there some particularly strong writing culture there or what?
Sybal Janssen
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Finished "The Hallowed Haunt" today and am starting to reread it. Your Five Deity theology fascinates me. I was particularly taken with the idea the thumb, which represents The Bastard God touches all five fingers. Did you develop this theology completely from your own creative imagination, or was it a partial not to the five elements of the Ancient Chinese world view? Much else of your theology delighted me.
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