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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Vijay
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love your books! I want to be the strong intelligent characters that you portray. Their perception and understanding of the world around them is so intelligent and easy to understand. Do you have anything from a very unintelligent protagonist (making wrong interpretations of the world, making incorrect judgement, repeatedly)?
Lauren
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I run a book club on reddit where we read a different book of yours every month. This month we are reading your short stories collected in the anthologies Proto Zoa and Dreamweaver's Dilemma (DD). It's just been pointed out to me that there isn't an eBook version of the DD anthology, which means eBook readers have no way to read the story "The Adventure of the Lady on the Embankment". Can you help in any way?
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