Jill
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just reread the Sharing Knife series - and whenever I read it I wonder, do you think you’ll ever write a prequel that tells the story of what happened? To create malices? Seems like there’s so much fodder for that story.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, I have, or had, a broad scheme of things in mind at one point, lacking detail and most critically, characters; though a bounded or restricted range of possibilities is still many many. But mostly, it would be a downer. I neither read nor write dystopias or disaster epics. And writing smaller scale cozy stories pre-disaster in a world all the readers know is doomed would feel weird.
So, likely not.
Ta, L.
So, likely not.
Ta, L.
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Judy R.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Not a question, but a comment? In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, the engineer stated that the expressed water from the ImpSec sponge was shooting 25' straight out from the cliff before falling into the water. I see the book was published in 2012, as I checked just now. In 2014, a Red Cross briefing after the Oso Mudslide Disaster north of Seattle said that's what happened there, too -- a horizontal jet of water.
Jean Lant
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Happy New Year Lois. My question is that I have recently published my first book (Redemption My Father's Story) and I used Covenant Books Publishing. The editing is terrible. It's distracting to the reader. I just am at a loss of how to handle this and could use some advice. I know that they sent it to me for approval and I regret that. I'm in no way an editor and I told them that. Any thoughts, please?
Kevin Reitz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
George Eliot wrote always with a sense of failure and doom. Nabokov was fully aware of his greatness. I think you must be somewhat aware. Not wishing for a response here, I’ll just say that talent at a certain level carries the obligation to write, especially if it’s not fading. We’re all at our full powers only so long, but some writers soar well into “retirement” years. I’m afraid you’re still on obligation status.?
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