Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog, page 4
December 31, 2024
Doylist vs. Watsonian, revisted
This was very fun...
https://www.pbs.org/show/lucy-worsley...
PBS 3-part series on, actually, Doyle vs. Holmes. Fascinating from a writer's point of view.
Ta, L.
https://www.pbs.org/show/lucy-worsley...
PBS 3-part series on, actually, Doyle vs. Holmes. Fascinating from a writer's point of view.
Ta, L.
December 16, 2024
PW reviews Demon Daughter!
Still nifty after all these years -- Publishers Weekly is a high-end place to get noticed, not least because libraries can use their reviews to pick purchases.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781...
Or, without the decorations,
Demon Daughter
Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $45 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64524-219-2
Bujold’s 13th Penric and Desdemona fantasy (after Penric’s Labors) takes the series in a more introspective direction as, for the first time, she places her two leads in conflict with each other. Temple sorcerer Pen and Des, the chaos demon with whom he shares a body, are called to help when an apparently possessed young girl, Otta, washes ashore in a nearby fishing village. After Pen, Des, and Pen’s wife, Nikys, determine that the child is indeed hosting a very young demon, they face a multipronged quandary. It’s unknown whether anyone else on Otta’s father’s ship survived and, if so, whether they’ll claim a child with a demon. Temple policy is to bring uncontrolled demons before a Temple saint, who will decide whether to remove it or leave it with the host. While Pen and Nikys grow fond of Otta, Des begins to care for the young demon, putting them at odds. “You think you’re taking an adopted child to be cured of a disease,” Des argues, “but I would be taking an adopted child to be executed.” Seeing these two at cross-purposes puts a fresh twist on Bujold’s formula, allowing her to reveal new sides to each character. This works well as a quiet interlude between the action of previous volumes and the adventures that await. (Jan.)
Ta, L.
Later: also now Locus:
https://locusmag.com/2024/12/demon-da...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781...
Or, without the decorations,
Demon Daughter
Lois McMaster Bujold. Subterranean, $45 (224p) ISBN 978-1-64524-219-2
Bujold’s 13th Penric and Desdemona fantasy (after Penric’s Labors) takes the series in a more introspective direction as, for the first time, she places her two leads in conflict with each other. Temple sorcerer Pen and Des, the chaos demon with whom he shares a body, are called to help when an apparently possessed young girl, Otta, washes ashore in a nearby fishing village. After Pen, Des, and Pen’s wife, Nikys, determine that the child is indeed hosting a very young demon, they face a multipronged quandary. It’s unknown whether anyone else on Otta’s father’s ship survived and, if so, whether they’ll claim a child with a demon. Temple policy is to bring uncontrolled demons before a Temple saint, who will decide whether to remove it or leave it with the host. While Pen and Nikys grow fond of Otta, Des begins to care for the young demon, putting them at odds. “You think you’re taking an adopted child to be cured of a disease,” Des argues, “but I would be taking an adopted child to be executed.” Seeing these two at cross-purposes puts a fresh twist on Bujold’s formula, allowing her to reveal new sides to each character. This works well as a quiet interlude between the action of previous volumes and the adventures that await. (Jan.)
Ta, L.
Later: also now Locus:
https://locusmag.com/2024/12/demon-da...
December 14, 2024
amiable anime
The subject of anime (and manga) has come up on my blog or author Q&A from time to time, as it’s been an ongoing interest of mine for some decades now, as availability has increased with the advances in entertainment technologies.
Anime encompasses the complete range of story types and then some, but at the moment I’m only on for Smart and Kind, or at least Not Awful. Do not want horror, ultra or unrelenting or stupid violence, saccharine kiddie shows, or the thousandth iteration of [X] in Another World. Also rather tired of middle and high school angst; prefer adult characters even if they are peripheral to the youngsters. For those interested, here is my list of recs of superior non-downer series.
Mushi-shi. Always in my first place. A mysterious white-haired fellow named Ginko goes around solving (or sometimes not) people’s problems with supernatural creatures called mushi. (Which I am told is Japanese for “bug”; so the title translates something like “bug-master.” Good call leaving it in the original.) Feels folkloric, but actually these mushi are the fantasy invention of the manga writer, Yuki Urushibara… Subtle, atmospheric, and if you enjoy it, alas, there is nothing else like it.
Hard to find streaming at the moment, apparently because the first couple of seasons were produced in the US by two different companies. The real Season 1 starts with an episode called “The Green Seat”, and can still be had as a S.A.V.E. DVD box set on Amazon, I see. (If anyone knows where it’s currently streaming, chime in down in the comments.) But it’s episodic enough you can just plunge into the ensuing season on Crunchyroll and probably get enough for going on with. The manga is available as an e-manga; some paper editions left.
The rest are in no particular order. On Crunchyroll:
Natsume’s Book of Friends Adventures of a boy in modern-ish rural Japan who can see yokai, Japanese supernatural entities, light version. (The traditional originals tend to be much nastier.) Over, now, 7 seasons he develops found family and friends on both side of the magical divide.
Heaven’s Design Team. God outsources the design of the world’s multitude of animals. Delighted the biology fan in me. Likewise,
Cells at Work! It is truly astonishing how well and hilariously the human immune system fits into anime tropes. Equally good, though darker and with more adult subjects, is Cells at Work!: Code Black.
Midnight Occult Civil Servants. Young man at his first job joins the municipal team in charge of dealing with problem supernatural creatures in modern Tokyo.
The Morose Mononokean. High school student discovers a mysterious classmate who, again, deals with problem yokai.
Those Snow White Notes. Slice-of-life (non-fantasy) about modern shamisen players – based on a manga, but the anime has actual, and wonderful, music.
Barakamon. Slice-of-life (non-fantasy) about a young hotshot Tokyo calligraphy artist who goes to a rural Japanese island to get his act together after screwing up at home.
Dr. Ramune – Mysterious Disease Specialist. A young practitioner of rather shamanic magic treats the bizarre supernatural/emotional symptoms of his patients. Modern-ish setting.
Holmes of Kyoto. Slice-of-life about a young art appraiser in modern Kyoto, and the forgers and forgeries (and not) he encounters.
My Roommate is a Cat! All right, maybe not smart, but manages kind. A lonely writer picks up a stray cat, and the ensuing adventures widen his social world. The parts of the episodes from the point of view of the cat are especially amusing.
This Boy is a Professional Wizard. Short m/m romance, very pretty animation.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Gets past my surfeit of D&D-based worlds by examining the afterward of the adventure. Unfinished, so I’m not sure if it will hold up to the end.
Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files. Spin-off of a much longer set of productions that I don’t especially rec (Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night), but you don’t need to have seen them first; essentials get recapped. Ex-pat Japanese magic teacher, and investigator, in modern London/Britain. Darker than most of the other recs here, but rich animation style.
Raven of the Inner Palace. Again, darker, one of a large herd of palace harem intrigue animations, but a pretty good example of its class.
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale. Despite the title, non-magical: slice-of-life romance in early 1920s Japan. Arranged marriage between a boy disowned by his family for a disability, and a girl sold by hers due to poverty.
Kakuryo – Bed & Breakfast. Another girl-sold-for-debt plot, but this time to an inn-owning ogre in the underworld; she upends the scheme by insisting on buying herself out by her own labor at the magical inn.
Zombie Land Saga. Oookaay… Does not exactly meet either of the parameters for this list, but the only zombie tale, or for that matter pop idol tale, I’ve ever liked. Unluckily deceased pop-idol wanna-be is revived, along with several others, to be part of a girl song and dance group. Nothing goes as planned. Real local color, Saga being not a story type, but the name of a prefecture in rural Japan.
Thunderbolt Fantasy. Magic & swords adventure, but with the most fabulous Taiwanese traditional puppetry. It has several seasons.
ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Division A bureaucrat with a mysterious past investigates goings-on in the 13 regions of his country.
The Case Files of Jeweler Richard. College student in modern Tokyo is hired by a mysterious ex-pat British jeweler; together, they fight not crime but clients’ personal problems.
ReLife Pushing-30 shut-in is invited to a rejuvenation/psychology experiment reliving his high school years, trying to get it right this time. Not time travel, I should clarify, though the science is equally bogus; it’s a current high school.
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life wasn’t bad.
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness. Administrative adventures of the ogre who is second-in-command of the Japanese/Buddhist hell. Not on Crunchy anymore; not sure where it’s steaming at present. Likewise a problem with the amusing yokai rom-com Kamisama Kiss.
And that’s enough for now.
Ta, L.
Anime encompasses the complete range of story types and then some, but at the moment I’m only on for Smart and Kind, or at least Not Awful. Do not want horror, ultra or unrelenting or stupid violence, saccharine kiddie shows, or the thousandth iteration of [X] in Another World. Also rather tired of middle and high school angst; prefer adult characters even if they are peripheral to the youngsters. For those interested, here is my list of recs of superior non-downer series.
Mushi-shi. Always in my first place. A mysterious white-haired fellow named Ginko goes around solving (or sometimes not) people’s problems with supernatural creatures called mushi. (Which I am told is Japanese for “bug”; so the title translates something like “bug-master.” Good call leaving it in the original.) Feels folkloric, but actually these mushi are the fantasy invention of the manga writer, Yuki Urushibara… Subtle, atmospheric, and if you enjoy it, alas, there is nothing else like it.
Hard to find streaming at the moment, apparently because the first couple of seasons were produced in the US by two different companies. The real Season 1 starts with an episode called “The Green Seat”, and can still be had as a S.A.V.E. DVD box set on Amazon, I see. (If anyone knows where it’s currently streaming, chime in down in the comments.) But it’s episodic enough you can just plunge into the ensuing season on Crunchyroll and probably get enough for going on with. The manga is available as an e-manga; some paper editions left.
The rest are in no particular order. On Crunchyroll:
Natsume’s Book of Friends Adventures of a boy in modern-ish rural Japan who can see yokai, Japanese supernatural entities, light version. (The traditional originals tend to be much nastier.) Over, now, 7 seasons he develops found family and friends on both side of the magical divide.
Heaven’s Design Team. God outsources the design of the world’s multitude of animals. Delighted the biology fan in me. Likewise,
Cells at Work! It is truly astonishing how well and hilariously the human immune system fits into anime tropes. Equally good, though darker and with more adult subjects, is Cells at Work!: Code Black.
Midnight Occult Civil Servants. Young man at his first job joins the municipal team in charge of dealing with problem supernatural creatures in modern Tokyo.
The Morose Mononokean. High school student discovers a mysterious classmate who, again, deals with problem yokai.
Those Snow White Notes. Slice-of-life (non-fantasy) about modern shamisen players – based on a manga, but the anime has actual, and wonderful, music.
Barakamon. Slice-of-life (non-fantasy) about a young hotshot Tokyo calligraphy artist who goes to a rural Japanese island to get his act together after screwing up at home.
Dr. Ramune – Mysterious Disease Specialist. A young practitioner of rather shamanic magic treats the bizarre supernatural/emotional symptoms of his patients. Modern-ish setting.
Holmes of Kyoto. Slice-of-life about a young art appraiser in modern Kyoto, and the forgers and forgeries (and not) he encounters.
My Roommate is a Cat! All right, maybe not smart, but manages kind. A lonely writer picks up a stray cat, and the ensuing adventures widen his social world. The parts of the episodes from the point of view of the cat are especially amusing.
This Boy is a Professional Wizard. Short m/m romance, very pretty animation.
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End. Gets past my surfeit of D&D-based worlds by examining the afterward of the adventure. Unfinished, so I’m not sure if it will hold up to the end.
Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files. Spin-off of a much longer set of productions that I don’t especially rec (Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night), but you don’t need to have seen them first; essentials get recapped. Ex-pat Japanese magic teacher, and investigator, in modern London/Britain. Darker than most of the other recs here, but rich animation style.
Raven of the Inner Palace. Again, darker, one of a large herd of palace harem intrigue animations, but a pretty good example of its class.
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale. Despite the title, non-magical: slice-of-life romance in early 1920s Japan. Arranged marriage between a boy disowned by his family for a disability, and a girl sold by hers due to poverty.
Kakuryo – Bed & Breakfast. Another girl-sold-for-debt plot, but this time to an inn-owning ogre in the underworld; she upends the scheme by insisting on buying herself out by her own labor at the magical inn.
Zombie Land Saga. Oookaay… Does not exactly meet either of the parameters for this list, but the only zombie tale, or for that matter pop idol tale, I’ve ever liked. Unluckily deceased pop-idol wanna-be is revived, along with several others, to be part of a girl song and dance group. Nothing goes as planned. Real local color, Saga being not a story type, but the name of a prefecture in rural Japan.
Thunderbolt Fantasy. Magic & swords adventure, but with the most fabulous Taiwanese traditional puppetry. It has several seasons.
ACCA: 13 Territory Inspection Division A bureaucrat with a mysterious past investigates goings-on in the 13 regions of his country.
The Case Files of Jeweler Richard. College student in modern Tokyo is hired by a mysterious ex-pat British jeweler; together, they fight not crime but clients’ personal problems.
ReLife Pushing-30 shut-in is invited to a rejuvenation/psychology experiment reliving his high school years, trying to get it right this time. Not time travel, I should clarify, though the science is equally bogus; it’s a current high school.
Elegant Yokai Apartment Life wasn’t bad.
Hozuki’s Coolheadedness. Administrative adventures of the ogre who is second-in-command of the Japanese/Buddhist hell. Not on Crunchy anymore; not sure where it’s steaming at present. Likewise a problem with the amusing yokai rom-com Kamisama Kiss.
And that’s enough for now.
Ta, L.
December 10, 2024
LMB interview musings
So...
I'd just this week finally figured out how to set my Pixel earbuds, which had been sitting in their case for a year, to different volumes on each side. (I am near deaf in my right ear.) There is a well-hidden slider bar deep in the buds' control panel on my tablet or phone. The immediate motivation for this was to be able to move around while listening to podcasts, instead of yet more sitting which is hell on my back. (Spine issues, details on request. MRIs are fascinating.)
On impulse, I tried Googling "Lois McMaster Bujold interview", and a rather astonishing number of old and more recent interviews popped up. (Is "googling" still capitalized, now that it's a verb and not a proper noun?) You all can do the same, if you are curious.
A few hourswasted spent ego-cruising the results reinforces two observations I'd made before about my interviews; the same questions get a lot of by-now rather canned repeats on the answers, and my written interviews are way more coherent and focused than my audio ones. I have concluded I talk in first draft, more trying to get to my meanings by bracketing fire than direct hits. Spoken interviews put into text by the interviewer that I get to edit before publication are rather better. (Unedited auto-transcriptions get pretty hilarious.)
On the other hand, I've lately been made aware of how very many more readers are now primarily audio consumers, as technology continues to create the ambit of the possible for art.
Besides Google, there is a nice collection of my interview links on the Vorkosigan Wiki, but one has to find it.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
A top-level Google (or google) does pretty well, if one chooses the right keywords.
...And there are also the hundreds of answered questions right here on my Goodreads "Ask the Author" feature, as if the foregoing weren't more than enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/1609...
Ta, L.
I'd just this week finally figured out how to set my Pixel earbuds, which had been sitting in their case for a year, to different volumes on each side. (I am near deaf in my right ear.) There is a well-hidden slider bar deep in the buds' control panel on my tablet or phone. The immediate motivation for this was to be able to move around while listening to podcasts, instead of yet more sitting which is hell on my back. (Spine issues, details on request. MRIs are fascinating.)
On impulse, I tried Googling "Lois McMaster Bujold interview", and a rather astonishing number of old and more recent interviews popped up. (Is "googling" still capitalized, now that it's a verb and not a proper noun?) You all can do the same, if you are curious.
A few hours
On the other hand, I've lately been made aware of how very many more readers are now primarily audio consumers, as technology continues to create the ambit of the possible for art.
Besides Google, there is a nice collection of my interview links on the Vorkosigan Wiki, but one has to find it.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au...
A top-level Google (or google) does pretty well, if one chooses the right keywords.
...And there are also the hundreds of answered questions right here on my Goodreads "Ask the Author" feature, as if the foregoing weren't more than enough.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/1609...
Ta, L.
November 25, 2024
fumble finger
I accidentally just pressed "ignore" instead of "accept" on a friend request -- Jessica, please try again.
(I trust that isn't a perma-block -- folks who are familiar with the hazards of such error issues on GR, do chime in below for our educations.)
Ta, L.
(I trust that isn't a perma-block -- folks who are familiar with the hazards of such error issues on GR, do chime in below for our educations.)
Ta, L.
November 8, 2024
Dealing With Dragons play in MPLS in January
My friend Pat Wrede informs me:
"The Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis is doing a production of Dealing with Dragons! Tickets at
https://www.phoenixtheatermpls.org/
--you currently have to scroll right a ways, because the play runs January 17-Feb 2, and tickets are general admission for $22 for adults, cheaper for kids."
Anyone who plans to be in Minneapolis in late January, take note! It looks like it's going to be great fun.
If you've not yet read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, give yourself a treat, in any location at any time. It's a 4-volume series, starting with the above mentioned Dealing with Dragons.
Ta, L.
"The Phoenix Theater in Minneapolis is doing a production of Dealing with Dragons! Tickets at
https://www.phoenixtheatermpls.org/
--you currently have to scroll right a ways, because the play runs January 17-Feb 2, and tickets are general admission for $22 for adults, cheaper for kids."
Anyone who plans to be in Minneapolis in late January, take note! It looks like it's going to be great fun.
If you've not yet read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, give yourself a treat, in any location at any time. It's a 4-volume series, starting with the above mentioned Dealing with Dragons.
Ta, L.
October 26, 2024
VK series musings
The conclusion of this year's Plot Trysts exploration of the entire Vorkosigan series ( https://plottrysts.wordpress.com/meg-... ) has me thinking about the work as a whole, seen as a single creation greater than the sum of its parts. I think I would add two remarks to my otherwise pretty complete author's reading-order guide. ( https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Th... and also the more spoilery but inclusive https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Vo... )
It was brought home to me what a profoundly different reading experience one gets from The Warrior's Apprentice depending on whether one has read the Shards of Honor - Barrayar duology first or not. Not necessarily better or worse, but it sure changes the progression and direction of suspense and surprise.
And the other was that one really, really needs to not leave out the 3-novella collection Borders of Infinity (including the frame story.) Those stories are short, not minor, and have knock-on effects through all that follows. At the latest, BoI should be read before Brothers in Arms. I'd been saying for a while that Brothers in Arms, Mirror Dance and Memory made a three-volume arc that should go in that order, but I now really think BoI should go first as the introduction of that arc.
Comments on your experiences of different first-reading orders welcome below. With 17 volumes total (including the BoI triple collection as a novel, which I do) and the two stray uncollected novellas there are a lot of options...
Ta, L.
It was brought home to me what a profoundly different reading experience one gets from The Warrior's Apprentice depending on whether one has read the Shards of Honor - Barrayar duology first or not. Not necessarily better or worse, but it sure changes the progression and direction of suspense and surprise.
And the other was that one really, really needs to not leave out the 3-novella collection Borders of Infinity (including the frame story.) Those stories are short, not minor, and have knock-on effects through all that follows. At the latest, BoI should be read before Brothers in Arms. I'd been saying for a while that Brothers in Arms, Mirror Dance and Memory made a three-volume arc that should go in that order, but I now really think BoI should go first as the introduction of that arc.
Comments on your experiences of different first-reading orders welcome below. With 17 volumes total (including the BoI triple collection as a novel, which I do) and the two stray uncollected novellas there are a lot of options...
Ta, L.
October 23, 2024
art in Louisiana
Now with new link that should work for folks besides me -- let me know --
Starting soon:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bt9c...
If you are in the Lafayette - Arnaudville area starting Oct. 26th, swing by and take a look! I understand the Art and Nature Halloween Festival this coming weekend is a lot of fun.
Ta, L.
Starting soon:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bt9c...
If you are in the Lafayette - Arnaudville area starting Oct. 26th, swing by and take a look! I understand the Art and Nature Halloween Festival this coming weekend is a lot of fun.
Ta, L.
October 10, 2024
McMaster interviews McMaster, 1959
In my recent Plot Trysts interview ( https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... ) I'd remarked about a recording my father had made of my grandfather in 1959, talking mostly about his childhood in Washington, Pennsylvania in the 1890s. Commenter Brad longed to see a transcript. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology and my son's IT support, I'm able to go that one better. The actual interview is now posted here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10JBj...
And should be publicly listen-able.
This recording has a precarious history. It was originally made on my dad's old (then new) 7" reel tape recorder, up in his home office up on the second floor of our Columbus, Ohio, house, resulting in a reel of tape I rescued at some point after he passed away. It was by then (late 80s) moldy and disheartening, but I somehow got the great folks at Reader's Chair, my then-audiobooks company, to clean it up and re-record in on a CD and some mini-cassettes. Mini-cassettes are now also obsolete, but I still have the CD, which still plays in my Blu Ray player. I'd been wanting to get it into a shareable audio file for some time, and this gave me the push. (Thanks, Brad and Rachael!)
I'd meditated in my Plot Trysts interview on the elastic nature of time, that in the course of 130 years, which seems, or used to seem, like a long time, three people spanning the whole could still at one point talk to one another. We can't do that anymore, but at least now anyone can listen.
Ta, L.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10JBj...
And should be publicly listen-able.
This recording has a precarious history. It was originally made on my dad's old (then new) 7" reel tape recorder, up in his home office up on the second floor of our Columbus, Ohio, house, resulting in a reel of tape I rescued at some point after he passed away. It was by then (late 80s) moldy and disheartening, but I somehow got the great folks at Reader's Chair, my then-audiobooks company, to clean it up and re-record in on a CD and some mini-cassettes. Mini-cassettes are now also obsolete, but I still have the CD, which still plays in my Blu Ray player. I'd been wanting to get it into a shareable audio file for some time, and this gave me the push. (Thanks, Brad and Rachael!)
I'd meditated in my Plot Trysts interview on the elastic nature of time, that in the course of 130 years, which seems, or used to seem, like a long time, three people spanning the whole could still at one point talk to one another. We can't do that anymore, but at least now anyone can listen.
Ta, L.
September 28, 2024
Renegades starts Oct. 1 with episode on Judy-Lynn Del Rey
The link is now live!
https://www.pbs.org/video/judy-lynn-d...
Not only did they use two sentences out of my hour of recording, they showcased some Miles Vorkosigan books, yes! I'm so pleased.
So...
By an unexpected chain of recommendations, I was invited to contribute to a PBS documentary series on high-achieving Americans with disabilities, of which the first of five episodes features science fiction editor Judy-Lynn Del Rey, co-founder of Del Rey books and a powerhouse editor in the 70s and 80s. I'd never actually met Judy, and did not know she was afflicted with dwarfism, because no one in SF who talked about her work ever thought it important to mention. Granted, pre-internet, editors were invisible anyway. (And writers weren't all that visible either. Ah, those were the days.)
Anyway, this past spring PBS sent a camera and lighting crew out to my house for an interview. The camera guy was there in my living room, the director was on the east coast, and the interviewer on the west coast, all communicating via laptop. It was all technologically fascinating, from my point of view. We recorded for about an hour. If they use more than one sentence from me out of all that, I'll be surprised. Hope it's a useful one... (I haven't seen the final yet, and have now forgotten everything I said, typical for me with oral interviews.)
Trailer for this digital production here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MivLn...
Ta, L.
https://www.pbs.org/video/judy-lynn-d...
Not only did they use two sentences out of my hour of recording, they showcased some Miles Vorkosigan books, yes! I'm so pleased.
So...
By an unexpected chain of recommendations, I was invited to contribute to a PBS documentary series on high-achieving Americans with disabilities, of which the first of five episodes features science fiction editor Judy-Lynn Del Rey, co-founder of Del Rey books and a powerhouse editor in the 70s and 80s. I'd never actually met Judy, and did not know she was afflicted with dwarfism, because no one in SF who talked about her work ever thought it important to mention. Granted, pre-internet, editors were invisible anyway. (And writers weren't all that visible either. Ah, those were the days.)
Anyway, this past spring PBS sent a camera and lighting crew out to my house for an interview. The camera guy was there in my living room, the director was on the east coast, and the interviewer on the west coast, all communicating via laptop. It was all technologically fascinating, from my point of view. We recorded for about an hour. If they use more than one sentence from me out of all that, I'll be surprised. Hope it's a useful one... (I haven't seen the final yet, and have now forgotten everything I said, typical for me with oral interviews.)
Trailer for this digital production here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MivLn...
Ta, L.
