Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog, page 11
November 11, 2022
Knot of Shadows garners starred review in Publishers Weekly
This is for the upcoming Subterranean Press limited signed hardcover edition. Nice words!
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781...
Due out the end of January... dear lordy, is it almost
2023 already...?
Ta, L.
added: The SubPress pre-order page is here:
https://subterraneanpress.com/knot-of...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781...
Due out the end of January... dear lordy, is it almost
2023 already...?
Ta, L.
added: The SubPress pre-order page is here:
https://subterraneanpress.com/knot-of...
November 4, 2022
new Bujold podcast interview about Penric's Labors
...and the World of the Five Gods generally, as we get into background. In honor of the publication of the third Penric & Desdemona novella collection this week.
https://www.baen.com/podcast/index/vi...
In both audio and video versions.
Ta, L.
Also now up on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig9q3...
And I was also reminded of this one from last year:
https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/p...
L.
https://www.baen.com/podcast/index/vi...
In both audio and video versions.
Ta, L.
Also now up on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig9q3...
And I was also reminded of this one from last year:
https://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/p...
L.
October 19, 2022
Bujold signing at new Uncle Hugo's November 5th
I get to see the new store!
Saturday, November 5th, 1 PM
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
I will be signing the third Penric & Desdemona hardcover omnibus Penric's Labors, which collects the novellas "Masquerade in Lodi", "The Orphans of Raspay", and "The Physicians of Vilnoc" (plus an Afterword.) Also whatever else of mine that people bring or buy.
No reading or program planned, but with luck there will be chances to chat.
Remember that the Uncles do mail order; if you can't be there in person, you can still get signed copies, and not just of my stuff. Preordering would be prudent, though not required -- it would give me the chance to do any requested personalizations while I'm there, though owner Don does bring orders out to my house to sign from time to time.
Ta, L.
Saturday, November 5th, 1 PM
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
I will be signing the third Penric & Desdemona hardcover omnibus Penric's Labors, which collects the novellas "Masquerade in Lodi", "The Orphans of Raspay", and "The Physicians of Vilnoc" (plus an Afterword.) Also whatever else of mine that people bring or buy.
No reading or program planned, but with luck there will be chances to chat.
Remember that the Uncles do mail order; if you can't be there in person, you can still get signed copies, and not just of my stuff. Preordering would be prudent, though not required -- it would give me the chance to do any requested personalizations while I'm there, though owner Don does bring orders out to my house to sign from time to time.
Ta, L.
October 18, 2022
For October reading, The Hallowed Hunt
Seasonal reminder, for the spooky autumn month:
My fall ghost story. No pumpkins, though.
Ta, L.
My fall ghost story. No pumpkins, though.
Ta, L.
October 2, 2022
one month to Penric's Labors launch
A reminder, it's just one month to the release of the hardcover of Penric's Labors, the third Penric & Desdemona novella paper collection. Contains "Masquerade in Lodi", "The Orphans of Raspay" and "The Physicians of Vilnoc".
A short-work reprint collection always has an uphill slog in the marketplace, and the sales trajectory of this series was further depressed when the second volume came out in May 2020, just when all the bookstores were closing for Covid. So you may want to order a copy from your favorite local bricks 'n mortar bookstore just to be sure, rather than just hoping it will show up.
Or, of course, Uncle Hugo's and Dreamhaven bookstores here in Minneapolis can get you signed copies by mail order (and in-store) as per usual.
Ta, L.
A short-work reprint collection always has an uphill slog in the marketplace, and the sales trajectory of this series was further depressed when the second volume came out in May 2020, just when all the bookstores were closing for Covid. So you may want to order a copy from your favorite local bricks 'n mortar bookstore just to be sure, rather than just hoping it will show up.
Or, of course, Uncle Hugo's and Dreamhaven bookstores here in Minneapolis can get you signed copies by mail order (and in-store) as per usual.
Ta, L.
September 27, 2022
WikiTree Challenge results now up on YouTube
So...
Earlier this year I was invited to be a guest on a WikiTree Challenge Week, explained here:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
They've just posted the very nice results report they did with me at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scs5r...
Their stimulus inspired me to pull out and put together my short ebook of family history:
https://www.amazon.com/Gerould-Family...
This was compiled from the typescript I was waving around at the end of the interview, laboriously transcribed about 50 years ago from the original pocket diaries from 1864 that my mother had been entrusted with. I do not know at what point and from what original Samuel L. Gerould's memoir was transcribed, though the e-file I obtained was made from a typescript of it by my brother Jim in the early 2000s.
(Showing yet again, things lead to things. Which has been one of my mantras from very early in my writing career.)
Ta, L.
Earlier this year I was invited to be a guest on a WikiTree Challenge Week, explained here:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
They've just posted the very nice results report they did with me at the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scs5r...
Their stimulus inspired me to pull out and put together my short ebook of family history:
https://www.amazon.com/Gerould-Family...
This was compiled from the typescript I was waving around at the end of the interview, laboriously transcribed about 50 years ago from the original pocket diaries from 1864 that my mother had been entrusted with. I do not know at what point and from what original Samuel L. Gerould's memoir was transcribed, though the e-file I obtained was made from a typescript of it by my brother Jim in the early 2000s.
(Showing yet again, things lead to things. Which has been one of my mantras from very early in my writing career.)
Ta, L.
September 13, 2022
Wondrium
Wondrium.com is the rebranded The Great Courses ™ streaming website, with added content. For those of you tired of dumbed-down or of shallow coverage, or who have exhausted PBS.org, here’s one solution.
I used to say popular science books were out of date if they were 10 years old, 5 years for biology. I later thought I’d change that for 5 years for most sciences, 2 years for biology/evolution, but I suspect the line for Bio now is closer to 2 months, and the other maybe 2 years. Even history, which one would think would hold still, is not immune to rapid change. Anyway.
Wondrium recs, recent or classic:
Synthetic Biology Just dropped this month. Brain-bending. My predictions in biology, genetics, and medicine in my science fiction from the 80s and 90s were WAY too conservative (although, in my defense, I did have to make then-current audiences swallow them.) Printing genes, not in the future, but right now. Chloroplasts using quantum effects, really? DNA computing. And on and on.
And if you need the basics of quantum, a course of great clarity is Understanding the Quantum World. Changed the way I look at chemistry, among other things.
Understanding Greek and Roman Technology All the courses by this presenter, Stephen Ressler, are great value. I have in general found that sorting through for “other courses by” to be very useful for finding good stuff.
Board Games of the Ancient World Recent and just plain fun, as it should be.
Fall and Rise of China was very well-presented, superior lecture style, but stops at 2009. Also harrowing, as it mostly covers the 20th Century.
Other especially good presenters on the history side are Kenneth Harl, Mark J. Ravina (excellent on Japan), and Steven L. Tuck.
Wondrium warehouses a range of courses going back decades. The viewer can track the evolution from the sets, from early courses that had a lecturer stuck behind a podium to geek out, old square-screen format, still trying to be to college intro courses and mostly aimed at audio presentations, through increasing sophistication and better use of visuals, to more recent use of illuminating animations.
But really, just go to the website and click on “Browse”.
Commenters, what are your faves and why? (From other nonfiction television/streaming sites, too – I’ve been pretty buried by this one, but I’m dimly aware there are others.)
Ta, L.
Later: another recent rec, tho' not a recent course, for my fellow word fans out there: The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
I used to say popular science books were out of date if they were 10 years old, 5 years for biology. I later thought I’d change that for 5 years for most sciences, 2 years for biology/evolution, but I suspect the line for Bio now is closer to 2 months, and the other maybe 2 years. Even history, which one would think would hold still, is not immune to rapid change. Anyway.
Wondrium recs, recent or classic:
Synthetic Biology Just dropped this month. Brain-bending. My predictions in biology, genetics, and medicine in my science fiction from the 80s and 90s were WAY too conservative (although, in my defense, I did have to make then-current audiences swallow them.) Printing genes, not in the future, but right now. Chloroplasts using quantum effects, really? DNA computing. And on and on.
And if you need the basics of quantum, a course of great clarity is Understanding the Quantum World. Changed the way I look at chemistry, among other things.
Understanding Greek and Roman Technology All the courses by this presenter, Stephen Ressler, are great value. I have in general found that sorting through for “other courses by” to be very useful for finding good stuff.
Board Games of the Ancient World Recent and just plain fun, as it should be.
Fall and Rise of China was very well-presented, superior lecture style, but stops at 2009. Also harrowing, as it mostly covers the 20th Century.
Other especially good presenters on the history side are Kenneth Harl, Mark J. Ravina (excellent on Japan), and Steven L. Tuck.
Wondrium warehouses a range of courses going back decades. The viewer can track the evolution from the sets, from early courses that had a lecturer stuck behind a podium to geek out, old square-screen format, still trying to be to college intro courses and mostly aimed at audio presentations, through increasing sophistication and better use of visuals, to more recent use of illuminating animations.
But really, just go to the website and click on “Browse”.
Commenters, what are your faves and why? (From other nonfiction television/streaming sites, too – I’ve been pretty buried by this one, but I’m dimly aware there are others.)
Ta, L.
Later: another recent rec, tho' not a recent course, for my fellow word fans out there: The Secret Life of Words: English Words and Their Origins
September 6, 2022
SubPress Knife Children cover in full
My old post linking to the image on artist Ryan Pancoast's website went dead, but the artist kindly lent me one to display on my blog. Very painterly! as they say in the trade.
More of Pancoast's art may be seen at
https://www.ryanpancoast.com/
(The hardcover of the novella is long sold out at Subterraean Press, but the e-edition with Ron Miller's cover of course remains widely available on Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, and Kobo.)
Ta, L.
More of Pancoast's art may be seen at
https://www.ryanpancoast.com/
(The hardcover of the novella is long sold out at Subterraean Press, but the e-edition with Ron Miller's cover of course remains widely available on Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, and Kobo.)
Ta, L.
September 4, 2022
Uncle Hugo's now open at new location
As seen here:
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Because of the way the streets are cut up it will be a challenge to get to, first time -- Google maps is your friend.
In his newsletter owner Don Blyly writes:
"We’ve been open to the public since August 14 at 2716 E. 31st St., but at reduced hours, and we have been accepting donations of books but have not been buying used books. ... We will be closed on Labor Day. The day after Labor Day we will go to our regular hours of 10 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 pm Sundays. We will also start buying used books, but with certain exceptions. ...
Some people have complained that they couldn’t find us, often calling from their car which was in front of the store. [Snip long tale about delays in getting signage.] I hope that sometime in September the new Uncles sign will be on the west wall and sometime in October the new awnings will be installed. Until then, look for the Glass Endeavors signage to find the Uncles."
Ta, L.
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Because of the way the streets are cut up it will be a challenge to get to, first time -- Google maps is your friend.
In his newsletter owner Don Blyly writes:
"We’ve been open to the public since August 14 at 2716 E. 31st St., but at reduced hours, and we have been accepting donations of books but have not been buying used books. ... We will be closed on Labor Day. The day after Labor Day we will go to our regular hours of 10 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 pm Sundays. We will also start buying used books, but with certain exceptions. ...
Some people have complained that they couldn’t find us, often calling from their car which was in front of the store. [Snip long tale about delays in getting signage.] I hope that sometime in September the new Uncles sign will be on the west wall and sometime in October the new awnings will be installed. Until then, look for the Glass Endeavors signage to find the Uncles."
Ta, L.
August 30, 2022
Knot of Shadows now on pre-order at SubPress
The signed limited hardbound of "Knot of Shadows", the 11th Penric & Desdemona story (e-published last fall) is now up for pre-orders at Subterranean Press. Publication scheduled for Jan. 31, 2023.
https://subterraneanpress.com/slider-...
Cover art again by the excellent Laurent Saint-Onge:
(At 30k words, it's something of a slim vol. SubPress used to have a two-tier pricing system, with a less expensive trade (regular) hardback volume, and a more expensive signed leatherbound, but Covid in 2020 and onward knocked out their library sales in trade, and they retrenched to signed-limited only with somewhat larger runs.)
Ta, L.
https://subterraneanpress.com/slider-...
Cover art again by the excellent Laurent Saint-Onge:
(At 30k words, it's something of a slim vol. SubPress used to have a two-tier pricing system, with a less expensive trade (regular) hardback volume, and a more expensive signed leatherbound, but Covid in 2020 and onward knocked out their library sales in trade, and they retrenched to signed-limited only with somewhat larger runs.)
Ta, L.
