Lois McMaster Bujold's Blog, page 9
August 3, 2023
New Fantasy from Patricia C. Wrede in September
New Pat Wrede out September 5th!
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
It's being officially marketed as a middle-school book, which means it will likely be found in most bricks-and-mortar bookstores in the kids' section rather than the regular F&SF section. For online booksellers (and readers), this division matters less.
I have my Kindle edition pre-ordered. I saw so many iterations of this in early drafts, as Pat wrestled with her material that wrestled back, much interrupted by life stuff, it will be fun to see how the final edits came out.
Cover's a hoot, very apropos.
Ta, L.
Later: information on Pat's book launch appearances in St. Paul, MN and Naperville, IL next month may be found here: https://pcwrede.com/blog/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
It's being officially marketed as a middle-school book, which means it will likely be found in most bricks-and-mortar bookstores in the kids' section rather than the regular F&SF section. For online booksellers (and readers), this division matters less.
I have my Kindle edition pre-ordered. I saw so many iterations of this in early drafts, as Pat wrestled with her material that wrestled back, much interrupted by life stuff, it will be fun to see how the final edits came out.
Cover's a hoot, very apropos.
Ta, L.
Later: information on Pat's book launch appearances in St. Paul, MN and Naperville, IL next month may be found here: https://pcwrede.com/blog/
July 29, 2023
5 Gods trio boxed set
This isn't new, but it just drifted in from my agent's office -- my first boxed set!
In Chinese, but there you go. It is possible for my books to get classy covers...
Publisher in Taiwan, ffoundation or Cite (I'm guessing ffoundation is a line under parent company Cite) but their website is listed as www.citecom.tw If I'm remembering right I did some long email interviews for them last year.
Ta, L.
In Chinese, but there you go. It is possible for my books to get classy covers...
Publisher in Taiwan, ffoundation or Cite (I'm guessing ffoundation is a line under parent company Cite) but their website is listed as www.citecom.tw If I'm remembering right I did some long email interviews for them last year.
Ta, L.
July 18, 2023
Ron Miller's space art prints for sale
You can get Ron Miller's space art prints, variously sized and framed (or not) at this link:
https://society6.com/ronmiller
There are, like, 8 pages of offerings, so don't stop your browsing on screen #1.
Ta, Lois.
https://society6.com/ronmiller
There are, like, 8 pages of offerings, so don't stop your browsing on screen #1.
Ta, Lois.
July 13, 2023
Shards of Honor audiobook in Spanish
Hah, seems to be a week for foreign edition revivals. I see Shards of Honor as an audiobook in Spanish has popped up --
https://www.audible.com/pd/Fragmentos...
Also, it seems, for sale on Spotify, about which I know nothing. And doubtless other vendors -- I also see it on Rakuten Kobo, which I know is legit.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2m2M1oU...
I see Barrayar has also been voiced by the same Spanish narrator.
Bilingual readers who have had experience with these, do comment!
Ta, L.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Fragmentos...
Also, it seems, for sale on Spotify, about which I know nothing. And doubtless other vendors -- I also see it on Rakuten Kobo, which I know is legit.
https://open.spotify.com/show/2m2M1oU...
I see Barrayar has also been voiced by the same Spanish narrator.
Bilingual readers who have had experience with these, do comment!
Ta, L.
July 10, 2023
Cetaganda in Thai
My foreign publishers are not always good about forwarding author's copies, but this just drifted in from my agent: Cetaganda in Thai. It's the first I've seen of one of my titles in that language -- always a bit of a thrill, and a wonderment. And, for all my imagination, not something I could have dreamed of when I first sat down in the blue swivel rocker in the corner of my living room 1982 with a pencil and a spiral notebook to embark on my first novel.
Front cover:
And the back:
Ta, L.
Front cover:
And the back:
Ta, L.
June 28, 2023
The Gerould Family revisited
I've just put up on Kindle a second edition of The Gerould Family of New Hampshire: Two Diaries and a Memoir, incorporating a short autobiography by paterfamilias (and my great-great-grandfather) Rev. Moses Gerould. This came into my hands after I'd finished the e-volume, and it's taken me a while to decide what to do with it. It is not as tightly focused on the Civil War years as the other entries, but it has a couple of fascinating anecdotes about local pro- and anti-slavery factions, and fractiousness, in his New Hampshire community in the lead-up to the war.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9NV3D5M/
Instead it recounts Moses's long career as a congregationalist minister, which may be of interest to students of what I learn is dubbed by historians "The Second Great Awakening", a widespread 19th. C. religious revival movement. I think I learned more about the family from Cynthia's diary, which also puts a few of her transcribing marginalia in a sharper light.
I didn't change the title, since that would have involved redoing the cover. But my updated vendor page notes make this second edition pretty clear, I hope.
I would have liked to make it a simple update that folks who have already purchased a copy could just access like typo corrections, but the added verbiage exceeded the 10% limit for that. (The added ~9,500 words atop the original ~42,000 made it about 20%.) So I have ended up with two identical-looking editions in the Kindle store. I would delete the first to save confusion, but I'm afraid of old readers losing their copies thereby. If I figure out I can do this without damage, I might, for the sake of new purchasers -- which are about 2 a month, so, not a pressing issue.
Ta, L.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9NV3D5M/
Instead it recounts Moses's long career as a congregationalist minister, which may be of interest to students of what I learn is dubbed by historians "The Second Great Awakening", a widespread 19th. C. religious revival movement. I think I learned more about the family from Cynthia's diary, which also puts a few of her transcribing marginalia in a sharper light.
I didn't change the title, since that would have involved redoing the cover. But my updated vendor page notes make this second edition pretty clear, I hope.
I would have liked to make it a simple update that folks who have already purchased a copy could just access like typo corrections, but the added verbiage exceeded the 10% limit for that. (The added ~9,500 words atop the original ~42,000 made it about 20%.) So I have ended up with two identical-looking editions in the Kindle store. I would delete the first to save confusion, but I'm afraid of old readers losing their copies thereby. If I figure out I can do this without damage, I might, for the sake of new purchasers -- which are about 2 a month, so, not a pressing issue.
Ta, L.
May 22, 2023
old Ista interview
I realized the Vorkosigan Wiki generously gives me a place to permalink old material that was either never posted anywhere, or has fallen through the internet. Here's a blast from the past -- 2007, apparently.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Al...
Interesting to see what parts have aged (besides me) and what parts have not.
Ta, L.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Al...
Interesting to see what parts have aged (besides me) and what parts have not.
Ta, L.
April 10, 2023
Knot of Shadows shipping at last
From Subterranean Press:
https://subterraneanpress.com/newskno...
It should be trickling into bookstores and mailboxes later this week, or next depending on shipping speeds. Dreamhaven Books & Comics and Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore here in Minneapolis should both have it soon.
Ta, Lois.
4/12 -- My author's copies arrived today! Lookin' good. I'm pleased to report the type is very clear and readable despite not being the large print I use for reading ebooks -- generous spacing between the lines does the trick, I think. Very pretty (if, granted, pricey) collector's limited edition.
It had a print run of 1250 numbered copies, which means I signed about 1300 signature pages last winter. Not, thankfully, all at once. For those who don't know, sig pages for these things are sent separately to the author for signing, and then bound into the books at the printing plant.
L.
https://subterraneanpress.com/newskno...
It should be trickling into bookstores and mailboxes later this week, or next depending on shipping speeds. Dreamhaven Books & Comics and Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore here in Minneapolis should both have it soon.
Ta, Lois.
4/12 -- My author's copies arrived today! Lookin' good. I'm pleased to report the type is very clear and readable despite not being the large print I use for reading ebooks -- generous spacing between the lines does the trick, I think. Very pretty (if, granted, pricey) collector's limited edition.
It had a print run of 1250 numbered copies, which means I signed about 1300 signature pages last winter. Not, thankfully, all at once. For those who don't know, sig pages for these things are sent separately to the author for signing, and then bound into the books at the printing plant.
L.
March 3, 2023
new short interview
Karen Hunt, who runs the Vorkosigan Wiki as a fan activity, asked me for a little email interview for the site recently; it is now finished and posted.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/In...
As with all fan Wikis, this one runs on volunteer labor, so folks interested in contributing should poke around and see what's up. It also hosts a very useful list of my prior interviews, and, now, a linkable copy of my reading-order guide.
Ta, L.
https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/In...
As with all fan Wikis, this one runs on volunteer labor, so folks interested in contributing should poke around and see what's up. It also hosts a very useful list of my prior interviews, and, now, a linkable copy of my reading-order guide.
Ta, L.
February 9, 2023
Penric 4th combo title mulling
It occurred to me I could pull together a 4th Penric combo volume for foreign rights/translations sales even before "Knot of Shadows" runs through its year license period with SubPress. The shortish The Assassins of Thasalon plus the novella just about make up a nice book-market-friendly word count. But that, of course, leads to the perennial problem of a title, different from all the prior ones but clearly in a grouping.
This is all the more moot because foreign publishers, if any, all change the titles anyway, but it would be nice if the volume at least started out well-dressed.
So, Penric's [active-sounding plural noun]. "Adventures" is a bit bland, "Ventures" sounds a bit too much like "Travels", "Perils" is, um, no. Best I've come up with so far is Penric's Lessons, mm, maybe.
Anyone inclined to play is invited to chime in down in the comments.
Ta, L.
This is all the more moot because foreign publishers, if any, all change the titles anyway, but it would be nice if the volume at least started out well-dressed.
So, Penric's [active-sounding plural noun]. "Adventures" is a bit bland, "Ventures" sounds a bit too much like "Travels", "Perils" is, um, no. Best I've come up with so far is Penric's Lessons, mm, maybe.
Anyone inclined to play is invited to chime in down in the comments.
Ta, L.
