Alict
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi, are there any plans to reprint the Penric series? Or even better, release an omnibus version? I really only read hard copies of things, but I'm not in a place to drop $100 apieve on four books because they had tiny printruns...
Lois McMaster Bujold
The six extant Penric & Desdemona tales are ready for two 3-novella omnibus paper volumes, if some print publisher wants to step up to the plate; there is a contractual wait for the stories to age out of Subterranean Press's term of exclusive license, however, which will be a while yet given that the last two haven't even been printed the first time. (Still to go are "Mira's Last Dance" and "The Prisoner of Limnos". Given that it takes the average big publisher a year to get a book to print press, it does seem like some of the wait could double up with normal lead time.)
They know where my agent lives, so.
Note that we want a publisher capable of getting books into brick-and-mortar bookstores, otherwise there's no point.
(My experiment with print-on-demand with The Spirit Ring was lackluster in results, so I'm in no hurry to repeat it.)
Meanwhile, you might try interlibrary loan.
Ta, L.
The six extant Penric & Desdemona tales are ready for two 3-novella omnibus paper volumes, if some print publisher wants to step up to the plate; there is a contractual wait for the stories to age out of Subterranean Press's term of exclusive license, however, which will be a while yet given that the last two haven't even been printed the first time. (Still to go are "Mira's Last Dance" and "The Prisoner of Limnos". Given that it takes the average big publisher a year to get a book to print press, it does seem like some of the wait could double up with normal lead time.)
They know where my agent lives, so.
Note that we want a publisher capable of getting books into brick-and-mortar bookstores, otherwise there's no point.
(My experiment with print-on-demand with The Spirit Ring was lackluster in results, so I'm in no hurry to repeat it.)
Meanwhile, you might try interlibrary loan.
Ta, L.
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Kate Davenport
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Just finished rereading Assassins of Thasalon. Thank you for the entertaining and satisfying end (beginning?) to Adelis, Tanar and Bosha's story,. Thank you for Chadro's HEA. And thank you especially for Iroki. I must remember in future not to ask too small. My only question is about pronunciation. Where is the emphasis in Arisadia? In my head I go back and forth between AriSAYdia and ArisayDIa.
Diane Duncan
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi! Thankyou for your novels. With the Vorkosigan universe, Do you ever privately worry about the trouble left behind in that universe from some of the endings of your books? (My husband and I’ve speculated 200 years later, when Eli Quinn’s genes have saturated Athos, curious and competently violent telepaths running roughshod over the rest of the universe. )
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