Lois McMaster Bujold
Running out of money used to work quite well...
In recent years (and from the beginning as well), the work itself demands its own completion. Not, alas, on anything resembling a regular schedule. I've described half a novel as like half a bridge, useless until complete from shore to shore.
There is usually also some significant emotional reward for getting the work out there and read, and getting reader feedback. It is, after all, Attention, with luck more positive than negative.
Ta, L.
Running out of money used to work quite well...
In recent years (and from the beginning as well), the work itself demands its own completion. Not, alas, on anything resembling a regular schedule. I've described half a novel as like half a bridge, useless until complete from shore to shore.
There is usually also some significant emotional reward for getting the work out there and read, and getting reader feedback. It is, after all, Attention, with luck more positive than negative.
Ta, L.
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Gisela Foster
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
How do you select the names of your characters in your books ?
Robert Meyers
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Have you considered doing any books about the General or the Admiral from the Vor series? The stories about the General, Miles Grandfather, really are something that I would have loved to see. Or anything else in that series coming down the pipe? Love your stories. So thanks!
Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I read e-books on an iPad and mostly get them from iBooks. The indications of genre in 'Library' view are all over the place: "Penric's Demon" is labeled 'Historical', "Penric's Mission" and "Paladin of Souls" 'Epic', "The Curse of Chalion" 'Paranormal'. Of course many others are better labeled. I suppose that you are not the decider, but do you have any influence? And who does decide?
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