Michael J
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Will The Assassins of Thasalon ever be published as a mass market paperback? I prefer a book in my hand rather than an ebook. (Sorry if you've already addressed this.)
Lois McMaster Bujold
At this time, I don't know. It has aged out of its license period at Subterranean Press, so a reprint is contractually possible. Because it's a shortish novel, and "Knot of Shadows" is a shortish novella, I thought the two would make a good compendium pairing, a 4th Pen & Des omnibus volume, and we have indeed marketed them that way for foreign rights under the title Penric's Intrigues, not that foreign publishers don't change the titles anyway. So far it's sold to Japan, where the prior volumes have done OK. "Knot of Shadows" is not out of its SubPress 1-year US license yet, though, having only come out this past January. So, we'll all have to wait and see.
Ta, L.
At this time, I don't know. It has aged out of its license period at Subterranean Press, so a reprint is contractually possible. Because it's a shortish novel, and "Knot of Shadows" is a shortish novella, I thought the two would make a good compendium pairing, a 4th Pen & Des omnibus volume, and we have indeed marketed them that way for foreign rights under the title Penric's Intrigues, not that foreign publishers don't change the titles anyway. So far it's sold to Japan, where the prior volumes have done OK. "Knot of Shadows" is not out of its SubPress 1-year US license yet, though, having only come out this past January. So, we'll all have to wait and see.
Ta, L.
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Alissa Blaney
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I was rereading The Warrior's Apprentice, and Bothari's impassioned speech just before he was killed really struck me. I never felt empathy for that character before, but his desperate wish was to be buried at the foot of Cordelia's grave. In Gentleman Jole, Cordelia is moving forward with life on Sergyar. Does she plan for her eventual remains to be interred on Sergyar, or on Barrayar?
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