Physicians of Vilnoc spoiler discussion space
...and typo reportage zone. I'd have sworn a mighty oath that there were no more of the latter left, but the typo fairy just laughs.
This is an open thread established for folks who have already read the story to talk about it freely with each other. (If you haven't already read it and don't wish your reading spoiled, leave this comments section for later. )
Anyway. The novella is now up at these vendors:
Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Physicians-Vil...
Barnes & Noble Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...
iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-p...
Cover art by Ron Miller:
Have fun --
Ta, L.
This is an open thread established for folks who have already read the story to talk about it freely with each other. (If you haven't already read it and don't wish your reading spoiled, leave this comments section for later. )
Anyway. The novella is now up at these vendors:
Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Physicians-Vil...
Barnes & Noble Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-...
iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-p...
Cover art by Ron Miller:
Have fun --
Ta, L.
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I sent in the errata list for corrections today, so if you spot any more, don't tell me. It would just depress me.Meanwhile, the iBooks version remains lost in space. I have hopes that uploading the new file will automagically correct that somehow, but that's based on less than zero actual knowledge. I'll continue to keep an eye out.
Ta, L.
iBooks is just up. If anyone purchases it, let me know which version it is, earlier or later.The later one has Ron Miller's art credit in the front matter, for the quickest way to tell.
The corrected one seems to be up OK at Nook and Kindle now.
Ta, L.
I got the iBook version this morning and it has a credit to Ron Miller for the cover art. Waiting is the price for wanting all my Penric in one place.I'm amused Pen still has problems because he's too pretty and too youthful looking.
Paul wrote: "I got the iBook version this morning and it has a credit to Ron Miller for the cover art. Waiting is the price for wanting all my Penric in one place.I'm amused Pen still has problems because he'..."
Excellent!
L.
Time to use this thread for its primary purpose, I think - i.e. discussion with spoilers.I really enjoyed this one - so much so that I read it twice, back-to-back, which is unusual for me. Read it again, sure, but no so quickly. I didn't do that with The Orphans Of Raspay - that one didn't grab me so much and I can't explain why.
So, anyway, this one. It would have been nice to see more of Nikys, but this story didn't call for it. If it had, she'd likely have been in some sort of danger, so probably just as well. Penric is a dad! Having just become a grandfather (and doesn't saying *that* make me feel old) for the first time a week ago, I can sympathise, at a remove - though it does bring back a lot of memories.
Was the horsefly sent by the Bastard? That was left ambiguous, which is just like Him, of course.
I have to say that the coincidental case of art mirroring life in the subject matter didn't affect me; if anything, it made it more relevant and relatable. Having said that, I haven't lost anyone to Covid-19, so others may feel differently.
In short, very enjoyable, and as always, I look forward to any more that Ms Bujold may care to write.
Kosigan wrote: "Was the horsefly sent by the Bastard?"Penric certainly seemed to think it was. If it was just a random horsefly, it was rather out of place in the temple, and bit him with suspiciously good timing. But the god didn't feel the need to sign his name to the event.
Penric certainly seemed to think it was. If it was just a random horsefly, it was rather out of place in the temple, and bit him with suspici..."Des seemed to think so too. The five gods certainly make for valid deus ex horsefly.
Lois wrote: "iBooks is just up. If anyone purchases it, let me know which version it is, earlier or later."No update for the Kindle version from Amazon UK yet. It'll get here eventually, I'm sure.
Thank you for the new Penric & Desdemona. It has served as a wonderful distraction in a rather stress-filled time.Thought I'd pass along one proofreading method that really does work: It takes two people, but could be done over the phone. One reads the work aloud, including all punctuation and font styles. The other compares it to the printed or electronic version. So, for example, where I'm reading now would be read aloud as: Pen danced up to him comma grabbed him by the hands comma and spun him around period Open quote And time well dash spent it was exclamation point Rede comma, I've italics cracked end italics this nut exclamation point close quote.
The benefit of this method is that it's really hard to get caught up in the story and forces the reader to pay strict attention to the text.
Is the bruising fever based on a generalized hemorrhagic fever such as dengue or Ebola?
DebL wrote: "Is the bruising fever based on a generalized hemorrhagic fever such as dengue or Ebola?"It's a fictional amalgam of historical diseases, run through a general understanding of how diseases work (and past a physician test-reader for a plausibility check.) There are elements of bubonic, sleeping sickness (tsetse flies are ugly critters), yellow fever (Rede is named after Walter), West Nile (which was taking out horses in Minnesota a few years back), and so on, but it's not tightly based on any one. It is, obviously, blood-borne like malaria, yellow fever, Lyme, Rocky Mountain Spotted, or sleeping sickness, which also have insect vectors; not contact or droplets. High lethality, but low transmission rate and a narrow transmission channel, luckily for my protagonists.
Ta, L.
The typo corrections are there in Kindle
Talli wrote: "The typo corrections are there in Kindle"Two more have been found since then, sigh. I'm not going to tell you where.
And in rereading the opening of my original Kindle version of"Penric's Mission" for the upcoming Baen online reading, I found another one. It seems to have been corrected in all the subsequent editions, though.
The typo fairy is an evil little bugger.
Ta, L.
I stopped looking for typos when you said they would depress you. Enough of that going around.
I'm not seeing the typo corrections in kindle. I can see "updated version available" for Orphans but not for Physicians of Vilnoc
I had bookmarked the ones I found and when I checked they were gone. I didn't have to get an updated version. Magic
Talli wrote: "I had bookmarked the ones I found and when I checked they were gone. I didn't have to get an updated version. Magic"I deleted files, re-downloaded (I'm using Kindle on PC) and the typos are still there. Evil magic.
Talli wrote: "I had bookmarked the ones I found and when I checked they were gone. I didn't have to get an updated version. Magic"I believe Nook updates automagically - which platform are you using?
L.
Talli wrote: "I'm on Kindle app - Android phone"All very mysterious. Like cats.
Well, things will sort out eventually.
L.
On the subject of PR work and writing reviews: we all see here what happens when I start writing anything. Somehow it turns out in people's eyes I am a very radical, very annoying, very self-centered and aggressive character, so not sure if having me writing a review anywhere would be a good thing. Also, I am not a member of any reading circle/mailing list/literary forum and thus cannot reach hidden audiences. I have a shelf at home though, dedicated to Bujold works, which is available for anyone who has entered the house. (Because of this practice, the shelf is very much thinned out, since people forget to return books they've liked. I only hope at some point they will pass the favour/book copy to the next unsuspecting individual).