Steve

Steve asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Reading Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus with my teenage daughter. Reading aloud increases my admiration for the writer as I feel the careful way she has chosen each word. It's the same with Tolkien or Rowling. I haven't read your books aloud; but when you read chapters in public or I hear the audiobooks, they sound like they are made to be heard. Do you read your own books aloud before a final copy?

Lois McMaster Bujold Hi Steve!

I don't, but for a while earlier in my career I was in a writer's group who read their offerings aloud to each other, which may have had some long-term effect. And I certainly subvocalize while composing,

The professional narrators of my audio books seem to like them, for what that's worth.

Ta, L.

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Jane Bigelow

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Thank you for The Orphans of Raspay. It gave us a different side of Penric, and as always it's intriguing. Will there be more? And will the next one give us more of Nikys? Much though I enjoyed Orphans, I found that I missed her.

Vince

Vince asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I am catching up on last year's entries in the Penric and Desdemona series and am enjoying the pair's adventures in Lodi. Coincidentally, I came across this article today about clocks shedding chaos from ScienceNews: https://bit.ly/2SqTZkT. And of course I thought of our favorite sorcerer of the Bastard's Order. I wonder if Pen or Des would find it amusing?

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Pax Oncel asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Sorry about the mysterious terminology! The Moravians were/are a radical Protestant sect who considered both main sexes equally divine, and so believed that in order to be fully deified, Jesus had to be feminine as well as masculine, so the side wound gave him a sacred vulva, sort of. (Also saw sex as a form of prayer, but the ways this worked got kind of rigid/surveillancy) They still exist, but are less radical now?

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