Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog, page 89

November 23, 2011

Ivan away!

So...

I just sent the finished file of the revised Ivan, His Booke (almost certainly to be finally titled Captain Vorpatril's Alliance) off to Baen.

I was just reflecting what a change this is from ...
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Published on November 23, 2011 00:55

November 17, 2011

revisions

Doing revisions on a completed novel is much like trying to gingerly swap out a card on the second layer of an eight-layer house of cards.There are no minor revisions. They're all equally dangerous. ...
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Published on November 17, 2011 12:55

November 3, 2011

My Space confusions

All right...I just spent an hour composing an e-mail only to try to send it and get a message saying "hash validation failed". Does anyone know what this is?Also, I see a number of comments have disa...
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Published on November 03, 2011 23:47

November 2, 2011

Ivan is done!

...In bus draft, that is.

"Bus draft" is my personal shorthand for "If I got run over by a bus,
you could print this." I try to hand in submission drafts as clean as I
can make them, to save work ...
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Published on November 02, 2011 02:52

October 28, 2011

Borders of Infinity 3-novella collection up in e-UK

With some trepidation, I decided to put the old Borders of Infinity original collection up in the UK stores as well. The three novellas are all also available separately, at a lower price as good sam...
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Published on October 28, 2011 00:27

October 26, 2011

Bujold e-books source - Fictionwise

The periodic reminder...A place to link for people wanting to recommend e-versions of my books, or at least some of the earlier titles, is here:http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a32......
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Published on October 26, 2011 23:42

October 8, 2011

paperback re-release of The Sharing Knife

The reprint of The Sharing Knife tetrology in its new cover clothes just took place -- from Harper Voyager, which I think is the new version of Eos -- I lose track of these corporate face-lifts. Anyw...
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Published on October 08, 2011 23:54

October 4, 2011

Falling Free and Brothers in Arms now up in e-UK

Ah ha, Falling Free and Brothers in Arms have finally popped up on the Amazon-UK Kindle store. Presumably they will have reached the UK i-Pad store by now, as well.There ought to be a shorter URL, bu...
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Published on October 04, 2011 11:59

October 3, 2011

io9 Q&A session

Well, I just finished up my visit to io9... there may be items of interest here for y'all, including Ivan updates.

http://io9.com/5845593/ask-lois-mcmas...

T...
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Published on October 03, 2011 02:23

September 29, 2011

Stanislav Petrov Day

I had meant to note Stanislav Petrov Day this year, Sept. 26th, but it slipped past while I was busy. Herewith:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisla..., L.
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Published on September 29, 2011 22:36