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Me too!



But: semi-retired? Do you consider yourself semi-retired? Did I miss something?
.....Can we do anything to change that? Like bring you cookies or something? How many cookies do you want? (Ma Kosti cookies?)

I'm taking my projects as they come, no plans and no promises. If the right idea (or character) shows up and demands attention, anything is possible, but I've decided not to try to stick to a rigid system at this time.
Ta, L.

But: semi-retired? Do you consider yourself semi-retired? Did I miss something?
.....Can we do anything to change that? Like bring you cookies or something? How many cookies do you ..."
I'm afraid cookies would be counterproductive. Alas.
Yeah, retirement is proving rather hard to define for a self-employed person. For me, I've decided that, for the moment, it will consist of doing more (or at any rate, as much) of the parts of my writing career (as) I enjoy, and less of the stressful tasks. So, much less of travel and public speaking, no contracts before a story/novel is written, hence no deadlines or other obligations. Write what I feel like when I feel like it. Or not.
Still have to keep up with business and tax records, and a number of other endemic para-writing tasks. But between all that, and life/home maintenance, and the modern hyper-glut of entertainment and knowledge at one's fingertips to take in, my time seems to be filling up pretty well.
Ta, L.

Well, I am glad you are doing less stressful stuff, and I will totally buy things that you write, which will give you money (publishers allowing) to do other less stressful stuff (like writing on spec). :D


Heh. Thank you for the thought, but I promise you, my local groceries provide me with far more very fine food than I can or should eat.
https://lundsandbyerlys.com/
(Yes, that's where the name came from. I wanted something that said "high class and really decadent".)
Ta, L.

Would you pretty please set up a way to buy it that is DRM-free, and accessible from Canada? Alas, the default settings on most ebook sites (including the ones you mentioned above) are not DRM-free, and don't work in Canada.

I am not a writer but I would be happy to take the cookies off your hands.

Would you pretty please set up a way to buy it that is DRM-free, and accessible from Canada? Alas, the default settings on most ebook sites (including the ones you mentione..."
I'm pretty sure Amazon and iTunes work in Canada. Nook I'm less sure of.
Those three are the only vendors we are using at this time. Can't do anything about the DRM, sorry.
Ta, L.

And, in preparation for February, I have been doing an entire Audible.com reread of the Vorkosiverse, currently in Warrior's Apprentice. I figure the spread over the months will be just about right :)
Best regards,
Lorraine


I'm with Joseph and Todd here, but if what you write is more inspired than what you might've written but didn't get inspiration for, I'm all eyes. Or bookstore credit cards. Or something.
I'd love a print-on-demand version though! Ereaders are valuable tools (although it's riskier to read them during dinner) but I much prefer the paper version. Physical objects books are easier for me to obsess about than computer files, although I respect the power of obsession that goes into software creation to make neat things for us non-IT folk.
Who's publishing 'Penric's Demon'? I think many or most selfpub setups allow you to add a POD option. I've seen CreateSpace novel/las that have both ereader and POD versions.

The Curse of Chalion is my, bar none, fave fantasy novel. Can't wait to read the new story!

I'm with Joseph and Todd here, but if what you write is more inspired than what you might've written but didn't get inspiration for, I'm all eyes. Or b..."
It will be self-pubbed, more or less. Or self-e-pubbed.
Our experiment with PoD with The Spirit Ring showed that it was a lot more work than it looked like, and that the audience was not at all enthusiastic about paying at the necessary price break. So I don't plan a chapbook or anything at this time. If I were, in the future, to write enough other shorter fiction to put together a collection, that might be more commercially feasible (though just barely), but that's not anything for people to hold their breath about.
The 5 gods - 5 books plan sounded good, but in practice I found that it was actually blocking me from other, more free-form explorations of the world. The novella length/side-story scheme allows me to have it both ways.
Ta, L.



It's nice to be stuck somewhere unexpected (a hospital?) - with a library, instead of that book I only had a chapter left to read.

So, whatever you publish, I'll be getting in e-format. (Though I have several paperback and hardcovers of your previous works.) I am nearly done re-acquiring the Vorkosigan titles in ebook format. I already got TCoC and PoS in ebook after first acquiring in print. :)
No thrill like walking around with 1500 books in your purse. Heaven.

I built a J. Kathleen Cheney short story collection there and they did a decent-to-good job printing it. The cover is little glossy, the edges are not as resistant to wear as (most) books from major publishers, and the buyer has to be a little careful with the title in the cover layout. But the paper is thick and the binding is good.


Premature, but not impossible. Blackstone does choose to do novella-length work sometimes. Not sure what their selection criteria are. (All production details, including choice of narrator, are up to them.) We'll have to wait and see on that. If the work does unexpectedly well as an e-book, they might take an interest. Or there might be other venues, hard to say.
Really, we are all reasoning ahead of our data, here! You all haven't even read the story yet.
Ta, L.

She's done that - and I have two e-book versions of Captain Vorpatril's Alliance

Anne in Virginia

Really, we are all reasoning ahead of our data, here! You all haven't even read the story yet.
Lois, that could easily be fixed if you release it tomorrow. :D

Really, we are all reasoning ahead of our data, here! You all haven't even read the story yet.
Lois, that c..."
It's making progress. The cover image is almost finalized. I'll post it here when it is.
...Which leads me to wonder what that lead-off picture-with-lettering should really be called, as e-books don't have covers. Or if it will end up being one of those language artifacts like speaking of "dialing" a phone number when dial phones have been gone for years.
Ta, L.

Lois wrote: ... The cover image is almost finalized. I'll post it here when it is.
...Which leads me to wonder what that lead-off picture-with-lettering should really be called, as e-books don't have covers.
You could call it an " Intrographic ".
Before the Internet, attendees at conferences (well, dental conferences anyway) could present their ideas/projects/results with printed "posters" for all to see. Nowadays, whether on webpages or actually printed, the designation has morphed into "Infographics". Hence ...
Meanwhile, I'm anxiously awaiting an eARC of Cordelia's tale.


No, sorry, just those three vendors at present.
I understand one can download a free Kindle app to any PC, and download the paid-for material to it and read off one's PC, so one is not actually cut off from anything but some convenience.
Not that convenience is to be underrated.
At least Amazon does reach outside the USA, and instantaneously, too. For a writer who grew up in an all-paper world, cut off by physical shipping costs and legal barriers from all other readers' markets but her own, this remains a source of marvel.
Ta, L.

You are selling yourself short here, Lois. We all have thirty plus years of data, knowing that this will be the highlight of our reading season. At least until 'The Red Queen" comes out!




I have thus far avoided specifying exact years, which would entail making up a calendar, or worse, several of them depending on realms and time periods. But the novella falls sometime after The Hallowed Hunt and before The Curse of Chalion. In another part of the forest, so to speak.
Ta, L.