Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog, page 35
November 12, 2017
Uncle Hugo's has Penric's Mission
Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore here in Minneapolis now has signed copies of the new Subterranean Press trade hardcover edition of "Penric's Mission" in stock. (As well as most of my other books, signed. Winterfair is coming...)
Hugo's may also have a few copies of the leather-bound fancy version, although I believe SubPress still has those on hand. The trade (regular) edition is currently sold out at the publisher.
I'm told it hasn't been uploaded into the online database yet, but an e-mail or phone call to the store should allow one to place an order.
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Plan is also for me to do a little signing there on Saturday December 9th at 1 PM.
Ta, L.
Hugo's may also have a few copies of the leather-bound fancy version, although I believe SubPress still has those on hand. The trade (regular) edition is currently sold out at the publisher.
I'm told it hasn't been uploaded into the online database yet, but an e-mail or phone call to the store should allow one to place an order.
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Plan is also for me to do a little signing there on Saturday December 9th at 1 PM.
Ta, L.
November 8, 2017
Goodreads giveaway for Penric's Mission
Subterranean Press is sponsoring a Goodreads Giveaway for "Penric's Mission". Details here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
All copies of the trade (regular) edition have shipped from SubPress, and are now sloshing around the distribution system. Uncle Hugo's here in Minneapolis should have signed copies for mail order very soon after they arrive at the store. (Don Blyly, the owner, has taken to hauling my books out to my place for me to sign when he has errands on this end of town, which saves waiting for me to get over to the store.)
I believe SubPress still has copies of the fancy leather-bound edition, for which I signed tips sheets a while back. See the link in the prior post for those.
Ta, L.
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
All copies of the trade (regular) edition have shipped from SubPress, and are now sloshing around the distribution system. Uncle Hugo's here in Minneapolis should have signed copies for mail order very soon after they arrive at the store. (Don Blyly, the owner, has taken to hauling my books out to my place for me to sign when he has errands on this end of town, which saves waiting for me to get over to the store.)
I believe SubPress still has copies of the fancy leather-bound edition, for which I signed tips sheets a while back. See the link in the prior post for those.
Ta, L.
November 7, 2017
Penric's Mission hc out from Subterranean
I'm told the Subterranean Press hardcover edition of "Penric's Mission" is now shipping:
https://subterraneanpress.com/bujold-...
Why it is listed as "out of print" on its SubPress page is unclear to me. (All copies bespoke? I'll have to check...) Amazon lists it as available for preorder:
https://www.amazon.com/Penrics-Missio...
In addition, Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore here in Minneapolis will have copies. In honor of the launch we have a signing tentatively set up at the store on Saturday, Dec. 9th at 1 PM. (Hugo's does not have room for a program, so it will be a casual sign-and-chat.) I'll reconfirm this closer to time.
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Hugo's also keeps most of my other titles signed, and does mail-order to all seven continents, so for anyone thinking about early holiday shopping, it's a great resource.
(Btw, under the news/editorials section currently up on Hugo's site, in the "How's Business" section, is an interesting article dated August on the history of book distribution in the US.)
Ta, L.
https://subterraneanpress.com/bujold-...
Why it is listed as "out of print" on its SubPress page is unclear to me. (All copies bespoke? I'll have to check...) Amazon lists it as available for preorder:
https://www.amazon.com/Penrics-Missio...
In addition, Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore here in Minneapolis will have copies. In honor of the launch we have a signing tentatively set up at the store on Saturday, Dec. 9th at 1 PM. (Hugo's does not have room for a program, so it will be a casual sign-and-chat.) I'll reconfirm this closer to time.
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Hugo's also keeps most of my other titles signed, and does mail-order to all seven continents, so for anyone thinking about early holiday shopping, it's a great resource.
(Btw, under the news/editorials section currently up on Hugo's site, in the "How's Business" section, is an interesting article dated August on the history of book distribution in the US.)
Ta, L.
November 2, 2017
birthday present
The Russian fans, again, have sent on wonderful birthday art in honor of the day. Infinitely sharable, rather like an e-mathom. Everyone can have a piece!
jetta-e tells me: "Allow us to pass a special present for you from Dr. Enrique Borgos - one splendid B-day cake coming right up!
( Birthday card artist is Vincha ( https://vincha.deviantart.com/ ). The card reads in Russian "С Днём Рождения!"/"S dnem rozhdenia!"/"Happy Birthday!" )."
Ta, L. 68 today, which, really, does not compute.
jetta-e tells me: "Allow us to pass a special present for you from Dr. Enrique Borgos - one splendid B-day cake coming right up!
( Birthday card artist is Vincha ( https://vincha.deviantart.com/ ). The card reads in Russian "С Днём Рождения!"/"S dnem rozhdenia!"/"Happy Birthday!" )."
Ta, L. 68 today, which, really, does not compute.
October 30, 2017
Limnos update update
Wed. Nov. 1 -- New good news: this morning, the Update button has finally made it to the Kindle "Manage your content and devices" page. I just used it to update my own copy, and it seems to be working fine. So Kindle users should be OK now with the standard automated procedure.
***
So, first the good news: all three vendors going forward seem to have the corrected file of "The Prisoner of Limnos" up now, so the problems discussed below should only be falling (unfairly) upon the readers who purchased a copy on last Friday or Saturday. Everyone who bought from Sunday on should be in the clear.
To check if you have the updated file (or don't), see this:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
In more good news, iTunes and Nook solved their updating challenges pretty much immediately.
iTunes has the new version in Updates, which is working; go through their updates-dance as directed. A poster on Facebook describes this:
"From your Library screen, tap the Purchased icon on lower right. It will take you to a menu where books with available updates are listed. Tap on the Update button alongside the book icon. Actually, if you have any updates available, the should be a number in a red circle on the Purchased button."
For Nook, a Facebook poster reports:
"If you have already downloaded the book, just archive and then un-archive the book. That will get the new version."
Also described: "On a Nook app on my tablet, all I had to do was delete the book from the
device (NOT from my account) and then download it again and voila, it
was the right version."
Kindle is proving the laggard.
First, DO NOT attempt to get a clean file by returning the old one and buying a new one. Due to a weird chaching issue, Amazon will just redownload the old, bad file.
The official way to get an updated Kindle file is to go to one's "Manage Content and Devices" page on Amazon (to be found on the drop-down menu from "Account & Lists" on the top right of the main screen) and click the update button to the far right of the title, that should be there but still isn't. Maddeningly. I will report here when that changes. *Finally, it has, see above.*
Meanwhile, poster Softness and others report success with this method:
"This is what I did to get the correct file: (hopefully the link works, because it is long)
1) I went to Contact Us https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...
2) Then "Digital Content and Services"
3) On #2, I filled out the "tell us more about your issue".
- I selected: "Kindle eBooks" -- "Kindle E-Reader" -- "Problems downloading content"
4) Then on #3, I clicked "Chat". A little window popped up with a chat agent. I told them "Hello. I purchased an ebook "The Prisoner of Limnos" and the author updated the file, but I have yet to receive the updated file."
They eventually pushed the updated file to me. I had to delete the old copy from my device and download the new file. That was it! It took me 7 minutes."
Hope this helps --
Ta, L.
(For all the aggravation, I do have to admit this beats binning a multi-thousand-copy bad paper print run.)
***
So, first the good news: all three vendors going forward seem to have the corrected file of "The Prisoner of Limnos" up now, so the problems discussed below should only be falling (unfairly) upon the readers who purchased a copy on last Friday or Saturday. Everyone who bought from Sunday on should be in the clear.
To check if you have the updated file (or don't), see this:
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
In more good news, iTunes and Nook solved their updating challenges pretty much immediately.
iTunes has the new version in Updates, which is working; go through their updates-dance as directed. A poster on Facebook describes this:
"From your Library screen, tap the Purchased icon on lower right. It will take you to a menu where books with available updates are listed. Tap on the Update button alongside the book icon. Actually, if you have any updates available, the should be a number in a red circle on the Purchased button."
For Nook, a Facebook poster reports:
"If you have already downloaded the book, just archive and then un-archive the book. That will get the new version."
Also described: "On a Nook app on my tablet, all I had to do was delete the book from the
device (NOT from my account) and then download it again and voila, it
was the right version."
Kindle is proving the laggard.
First, DO NOT attempt to get a clean file by returning the old one and buying a new one. Due to a weird chaching issue, Amazon will just redownload the old, bad file.
The official way to get an updated Kindle file is to go to one's "Manage Content and Devices" page on Amazon (to be found on the drop-down menu from "Account & Lists" on the top right of the main screen) and click the update button to the far right of the title, that should be there but still isn't. Maddeningly. I will report here when that changes. *Finally, it has, see above.*
Meanwhile, poster Softness and others report success with this method:
"This is what I did to get the correct file: (hopefully the link works, because it is long)
1) I went to Contact Us https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...
2) Then "Digital Content and Services"
3) On #2, I filled out the "tell us more about your issue".
- I selected: "Kindle eBooks" -- "Kindle E-Reader" -- "Problems downloading content"
4) Then on #3, I clicked "Chat". A little window popped up with a chat agent. I told them "Hello. I purchased an ebook "The Prisoner of Limnos" and the author updated the file, but I have yet to receive the updated file."
They eventually pushed the updated file to me. I had to delete the old copy from my device and download the new file. That was it! It took me 7 minutes."
Hope this helps --
Ta, L.
(For all the aggravation, I do have to admit this beats binning a multi-thousand-copy bad paper print run.)
October 29, 2017
Limnos spoiler discussion space
With all the kerfluffle over the uploading problems, I totally lost track of supplying a spoiler-space for people to actually discuss the contents of the story, which I am sure is of more interest and less aggravation to us all.
So anyway, as per prior stories, herewith an open comments section in which those who have already read the tale can romp and play with each other, and those who still hope to may avoid until ready.
Ta, L.
So anyway, as per prior stories, herewith an open comments section in which those who have already read the tale can romp and play with each other, and those who still hope to may avoid until ready.
Ta, L.
Limnos corrections cross-check
As discussed (at length) in the prior post, the file uploaded on Friday of "The Prisoner of Limnos" was corrupted due to a formatting glitch -- 14 out of its 18 chapters were missing their final paragraphs. We caught up with the problem on Saturday afternoon, and a fresh and supposedly corrected file was uploaded at the three vendors.
Supposedly, everyone who bought after that point should have the right file, but that leaves the problem of everyone who bought early still having a bad one. Nook and iTunes refresh-file functions seem to be working now, or if not, please report in the comments section.
Because Amazon does not yet display the button for the fresh upload next to the book's title in the "manage your content and devices" page (it should appear in the far right column labeled "update available"), I have no way of telling from this end if all the corrections got in properly, which is driving me spare right now.
Meanwhile, while I twiddle my virtual thumbs waiting on Amazon, I've decided to post the 14 missing chapter ends here, so someone who *can* check can let me know if they all got in.
What follows will include spoilers, so persons spoiler-averse who are more patient than I am may wish to stop reading at this point.
(The penultimate paragraphs are included for context.)
***
Ch. 1:
“Oh”—Pen exhaled—“nothing of importance now. Let’s go find Duke Jurgo.”
They exited the bookroom together, Nikys’s shorter steps for once outpacing Penric’s leggy stride.
Ch. 2:
That was Desdemona, without question.
Even Jurgo caught it, by the wry smile that turned his mouth. “Let us all hope so.”
Ch. 3: (ends correctly in my file, included here for completeness.)
Oh, Pen. You have been a surprise from the beginning.
Ch. 4:
The coach-hire the next morning seemed to care only that their coin was good, which thanks to Jurgo’s generous purse it was, and to get them on their way as efficiently and lucratively as possible. They would reach the hinterlands of Thasalon by sundown. Still unremarked.
While not having to stop and let Penric steal them funds from local temples was certainly a boon, this round, Nikys suspected the return journey might not run so smoothly.
Ch. 5:
Nor are you, Pen dear, but it seems the position is taken.
Pen was too exhausted to fret further tonight. Judging that they were both about as sincere as two strange cats, he exchanged polite nods with Bosha and withdrew.
Ch. 6:
Nikys let that lay unchallenged. She had put hope before prudence, or why else had she come this far? A few more breaths, in the dark. Hope or prayer, she offered up: “I always wanted to have a sister, too.”
“Let us try to make that happen, then,” said Tanar softly.
Ch. 7:
Nikys nodded, satisfied. Everyone else kept staring.
“Dyes,” said Tanar after a moment. “Now that is something I might help with!”
Ch. 8:
And then the cart was turning onto the street, and other peoples’ troubles had to make way for her own. The last leg of this mortal relay.
Maybe.
Ch. 9:
“No reason it can’t be both,” said Pen, judiciously. “And every reason it could. The gods have no hands but ours, they say.” He held up his fingers and wiggled them.
“Not mine,” growled Bosha, and retreated back under his blue curtain.
Ch. 10:
“I can take—”
She reached out and caught his hand, laid a finger to stop his anxious lips. “No. It’s really all right. We can go, now.” She echoed his own words back to him. “It will be very well.” This time, she stood first, and pulled him up after her.
Ch. 11:
He grinned and touched his hand to his heart, echoing her echo. Then tapped her lips twice with his thumb, for whatever blessing he could muster. “Our god guard you on your way. And the rest of His kin.”
When he closed and locked the door behind them, the cell felt very silent and empty.
Ch. 12:
She wished her imagination came with a lever to shut it off, like an irrigation gate. This nightmare garden needed no watering.
The darkness was cooling rapidly. Nikys leaned against her mother, who leaned equally exhausted against her, and not just to share heat. As the horse plodded on, Nikys wondered if she had just traded a gold coin for a gold coin.
Ch. 13:
A last look up before the rising stone eclipsed her found Acolyte Hekat still leaning on her railing, looking down studying them. He made the tally of the gods broadly over his chest at her, tapping his lips twice by way of farewell.
She touched her fingers to her forehead in return salute, and Pen thought her brother might not be the only member of her family with a strong ironic streak.
Ch. 14:
Nikys raised her face. “You do? What?”
She tapped Nikys’s forehead in a gesture not quite a blessing. And said, in a voice as arid as Nikys had ever heard from her, “Die first.”
Ch. 15:
“…Aye.”
They sat together in reflective silence as the boat tacked south.
Ch. 16: (ends correctly in my file, included here for completeness)
They talked in low tones until his head was nodding, and his mother sent him to bed with a kiss the like of which he’d probably not had from her since he was four. It seemed to please them both. It often felt to Nikys that her elder brother’s relationship with their mother was less, not more, complicated than her own for its long gap, but she could not begrudge it.
Ch. 17: (ends correctly in my file.)
Then it was time to traverse the dock to the gangplank of the Saonese ship, and be herded up it by sailors ready to get underway. Three sturdy masts, Pen observed with approval, and even larger than the cargo vessel on which he’d traveled from Lodi to Patos not four months past, which now seemed a century ago. Making this Pen’s second sea voyage ever. Would it be as life-altering as the first?
Ch. 18: (ends correctly in my file.)
She reached back.
***
One of my bright writer-readers thought she might use this as an instructive lesson/study on endings and transitions, which would certainly be making lemonade out of lemons. Or out of Limnos. If she does, I'll post a link.
It's also been fascinating to note how many people breezed though it not noticing anything amiss; it was another writer who first said something that tipped me off to go check. Some of the end-lines are just utilitarian transitions, but some are not.
Ta, L.
(8 AM Sunday, still no Amazon update button, sigh.)
(4:30 PM Sunday still no update button, grr.)
(6:30 PM Sunday still no update button, gritgritgrit.)
(10:30 PM Sunday still no love *despair*)
(12:15 AM Monday still no update button. *defeat*)
(7:30 AM Monday still no update button.)
(11 AM Monday still nope.)
(1 PM Monday - Madness, they say, is performing the same action and expecting a different result.)
(7:30 PM Monday. The madness continues.)
(9:30 PM Monday ... )
(1:15 PM Tuesday ... )
(11:30 PM Tuesday ... )
(8:30 AM Wednesday It's there! Finally! It works! Bwahahaha...!)
Supposedly, everyone who bought after that point should have the right file, but that leaves the problem of everyone who bought early still having a bad one. Nook and iTunes refresh-file functions seem to be working now, or if not, please report in the comments section.
Because Amazon does not yet display the button for the fresh upload next to the book's title in the "manage your content and devices" page (it should appear in the far right column labeled "update available"), I have no way of telling from this end if all the corrections got in properly, which is driving me spare right now.
Meanwhile, while I twiddle my virtual thumbs waiting on Amazon, I've decided to post the 14 missing chapter ends here, so someone who *can* check can let me know if they all got in.
What follows will include spoilers, so persons spoiler-averse who are more patient than I am may wish to stop reading at this point.
(The penultimate paragraphs are included for context.)
***
Ch. 1:
“Oh”—Pen exhaled—“nothing of importance now. Let’s go find Duke Jurgo.”
They exited the bookroom together, Nikys’s shorter steps for once outpacing Penric’s leggy stride.
Ch. 2:
That was Desdemona, without question.
Even Jurgo caught it, by the wry smile that turned his mouth. “Let us all hope so.”
Ch. 3: (ends correctly in my file, included here for completeness.)
Oh, Pen. You have been a surprise from the beginning.
Ch. 4:
The coach-hire the next morning seemed to care only that their coin was good, which thanks to Jurgo’s generous purse it was, and to get them on their way as efficiently and lucratively as possible. They would reach the hinterlands of Thasalon by sundown. Still unremarked.
While not having to stop and let Penric steal them funds from local temples was certainly a boon, this round, Nikys suspected the return journey might not run so smoothly.
Ch. 5:
Nor are you, Pen dear, but it seems the position is taken.
Pen was too exhausted to fret further tonight. Judging that they were both about as sincere as two strange cats, he exchanged polite nods with Bosha and withdrew.
Ch. 6:
Nikys let that lay unchallenged. She had put hope before prudence, or why else had she come this far? A few more breaths, in the dark. Hope or prayer, she offered up: “I always wanted to have a sister, too.”
“Let us try to make that happen, then,” said Tanar softly.
Ch. 7:
Nikys nodded, satisfied. Everyone else kept staring.
“Dyes,” said Tanar after a moment. “Now that is something I might help with!”
Ch. 8:
And then the cart was turning onto the street, and other peoples’ troubles had to make way for her own. The last leg of this mortal relay.
Maybe.
Ch. 9:
“No reason it can’t be both,” said Pen, judiciously. “And every reason it could. The gods have no hands but ours, they say.” He held up his fingers and wiggled them.
“Not mine,” growled Bosha, and retreated back under his blue curtain.
Ch. 10:
“I can take—”
She reached out and caught his hand, laid a finger to stop his anxious lips. “No. It’s really all right. We can go, now.” She echoed his own words back to him. “It will be very well.” This time, she stood first, and pulled him up after her.
Ch. 11:
He grinned and touched his hand to his heart, echoing her echo. Then tapped her lips twice with his thumb, for whatever blessing he could muster. “Our god guard you on your way. And the rest of His kin.”
When he closed and locked the door behind them, the cell felt very silent and empty.
Ch. 12:
She wished her imagination came with a lever to shut it off, like an irrigation gate. This nightmare garden needed no watering.
The darkness was cooling rapidly. Nikys leaned against her mother, who leaned equally exhausted against her, and not just to share heat. As the horse plodded on, Nikys wondered if she had just traded a gold coin for a gold coin.
Ch. 13:
A last look up before the rising stone eclipsed her found Acolyte Hekat still leaning on her railing, looking down studying them. He made the tally of the gods broadly over his chest at her, tapping his lips twice by way of farewell.
She touched her fingers to her forehead in return salute, and Pen thought her brother might not be the only member of her family with a strong ironic streak.
Ch. 14:
Nikys raised her face. “You do? What?”
She tapped Nikys’s forehead in a gesture not quite a blessing. And said, in a voice as arid as Nikys had ever heard from her, “Die first.”
Ch. 15:
“…Aye.”
They sat together in reflective silence as the boat tacked south.
Ch. 16: (ends correctly in my file, included here for completeness)
They talked in low tones until his head was nodding, and his mother sent him to bed with a kiss the like of which he’d probably not had from her since he was four. It seemed to please them both. It often felt to Nikys that her elder brother’s relationship with their mother was less, not more, complicated than her own for its long gap, but she could not begrudge it.
Ch. 17: (ends correctly in my file.)
Then it was time to traverse the dock to the gangplank of the Saonese ship, and be herded up it by sailors ready to get underway. Three sturdy masts, Pen observed with approval, and even larger than the cargo vessel on which he’d traveled from Lodi to Patos not four months past, which now seemed a century ago. Making this Pen’s second sea voyage ever. Would it be as life-altering as the first?
Ch. 18: (ends correctly in my file.)
She reached back.
***
One of my bright writer-readers thought she might use this as an instructive lesson/study on endings and transitions, which would certainly be making lemonade out of lemons. Or out of Limnos. If she does, I'll post a link.
It's also been fascinating to note how many people breezed though it not noticing anything amiss; it was another writer who first said something that tipped me off to go check. Some of the end-lines are just utilitarian transitions, but some are not.
Ta, L.
(8 AM Sunday, still no Amazon update button, sigh.)
(4:30 PM Sunday still no update button, grr.)
(6:30 PM Sunday still no update button, gritgritgrit.)
(10:30 PM Sunday still no love *despair*)
(12:15 AM Monday still no update button. *defeat*)
(7:30 AM Monday still no update button.)
(11 AM Monday still nope.)
(1 PM Monday - Madness, they say, is performing the same action and expecting a different result.)
(7:30 PM Monday. The madness continues.)
(9:30 PM Monday ... )
(1:15 PM Tuesday ... )
(11:30 PM Tuesday ... )
(8:30 AM Wednesday It's there! Finally! It works! Bwahahaha...!)
October 28, 2017
AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!! Limnos missing paragraphs
In a brand-new sort of errata, it turns out that most of the "chapters" in the new novella, "The Prisoner of Limnos", lost their final paragraphs somewhere in the formatting process.
We will be producing and uploading a corrected file just as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, for those who have already purchased, I know Amazon has a way of giving one new editions, which someone else here is going to have to explain -- I've never been able to make it work, myself, but maybe together we can figure it out.
I don't know what Nook and iTunes have in that mode.
Argh, L.
(E-helper says new files just went up; we'll see if it got fixed. Please do report.)
For a quick check to see which edition you have: the proper ending of Ch. 1 should be:
“Oh”—Pen exhaled—“nothing of importance now. Let’s go find Duke Jurgo.”
They exited the bookroom together, Nikys’s shorter steps for once outpacing Penric’s leggy stride.
***
Meanwhile, a reader advises: "When you are logged in on Amazon, look for 'Account & Lists' in the upper
right-hand corner. Hover the mouse over it and choose the option 'Your
Content and Devices.' That should give you a list of of your e-book
purchases.
The ones that have new files to get have a little button 'Update available'
at the very last column. Click that."
LMB comments, 5:30 PM Saturday: I can get to my content & devices page, but there is no such button yet in the last column. It may surface within an hour or so; if not, I'll be back to wailing for help.
Later still: E-helper advises that the correction button may take up to 24 hours to appear on Amazon's "Manage your content and devices" page. I still don't know what Nook and iTunes offer, if anything. (If anyone out there does know, please shout out.)
As a last resort, people may have to return the book and re-purchase.
DO NOT do this. Amazon just reloads the bad file on you. While simultaneously selling the good one to new purchasers. Which I think is insane. There is something very, very wrong deep in the bowels of their sales computers to manage this trick.
If anyone successfully manages to obtain the corrected version, let us know, and know how. (Later: see comments from posters below and under my next post about successes with the Kindle chat line.)
Later still: a reader below advises that the iTunes update button is working already -- if only people know to go check it, sigh. (Later: a Nook reader also reports victory. So that's 2 out of 3.)
7:20 PM: As an experiment, I tried downloading the Amazon file to a different device. Still got the bad one. This is not heartening.
Are new purchasers getting the good one or still the bad one? Inquiring mind wants to know.
8:30 PM. Any word from Nook users?
This is starting to read like "Dogs In Elk", only not as hilarious.
(Later: it occurs to me some people might not know the reference to dogs in elk, which you can get just by Googling the phrase, where the first link is this:
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/report... )
We will be producing and uploading a corrected file just as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, for those who have already purchased, I know Amazon has a way of giving one new editions, which someone else here is going to have to explain -- I've never been able to make it work, myself, but maybe together we can figure it out.
I don't know what Nook and iTunes have in that mode.
Argh, L.
(E-helper says new files just went up; we'll see if it got fixed. Please do report.)
For a quick check to see which edition you have: the proper ending of Ch. 1 should be:
“Oh”—Pen exhaled—“nothing of importance now. Let’s go find Duke Jurgo.”
They exited the bookroom together, Nikys’s shorter steps for once outpacing Penric’s leggy stride.
***
Meanwhile, a reader advises: "When you are logged in on Amazon, look for 'Account & Lists' in the upper
right-hand corner. Hover the mouse over it and choose the option 'Your
Content and Devices.' That should give you a list of of your e-book
purchases.
The ones that have new files to get have a little button 'Update available'
at the very last column. Click that."
LMB comments, 5:30 PM Saturday: I can get to my content & devices page, but there is no such button yet in the last column. It may surface within an hour or so; if not, I'll be back to wailing for help.
Later still: E-helper advises that the correction button may take up to 24 hours to appear on Amazon's "Manage your content and devices" page. I still don't know what Nook and iTunes offer, if anything. (If anyone out there does know, please shout out.)
DO NOT do this. Amazon just reloads the bad file on you. While simultaneously selling the good one to new purchasers. Which I think is insane. There is something very, very wrong deep in the bowels of their sales computers to manage this trick.
If anyone successfully manages to obtain the corrected version, let us know, and know how. (Later: see comments from posters below and under my next post about successes with the Kindle chat line.)
Later still: a reader below advises that the iTunes update button is working already -- if only people know to go check it, sigh. (Later: a Nook reader also reports victory. So that's 2 out of 3.)
7:20 PM: As an experiment, I tried downloading the Amazon file to a different device. Still got the bad one. This is not heartening.
Are new purchasers getting the good one or still the bad one? Inquiring mind wants to know.
8:30 PM. Any word from Nook users?
This is starting to read like "Dogs In Elk", only not as hilarious.
(Later: it occurs to me some people might not know the reference to dogs in elk, which you can get just by Googling the phrase, where the first link is this:
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/report... )
new Bujold interview at 8LW
...may be seen here:
https://eightladieswriting.com/2017/1...
Includes much about the new Penric e-cover.
Ta, L.
https://eightladieswriting.com/2017/1...
Includes much about the new Penric e-cover.
Ta, L.
October 27, 2017
The Prisoner of Limnos now up!
Penric & Desdemona novella #6 is now up at iBooks and Nook.
iBooks:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-...
B&N:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...
Amazon's Kindle version should surface within the next day, and I'll add the link here when it does. At the present hour, their bots are still trying to direct me to "The Prisoner of Lemons", which as near as I can tell does not actually exist. Though it should.
(slightly later) Aha, here it is on Kindle:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076X2TNRM/...
The novella topped out at 44,950 words, not including the title page.
(Note: the only publicity these e-novellas get are these few blog posts, so readers mentioning their existence out and about on the net (and elsewhere) are quite important and much appreciated. Amazon always gets plenty of reviews, so consider other appropriate spaces as well.)
Ta, L.
