S Wright
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Having read and re-read all your works that I can find through many stages of my life I continue to identify with all your depictions of motherhood, both internal and external. Currently my oldest is on the cusp of adulthood, and although I see external descriptions of this stage of parenting, I've searched and not found the internal depiction I'm craving. Have you any plans from this POV?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Not per se, but it's an interesting conundrum. Approximately ten million tales from the points of view of teens, almost none from their parents (the Enemy, usually, in coming-of-age tales, as is older authority generally.) Mothers, parents, and domesticity are perceived by many readers to be the antithesis of exciting stories.
Don Sakers had some musings on the topic, if this link still works:
https://web.archive.org/web/201611232...
Ta, L.
Not per se, but it's an interesting conundrum. Approximately ten million tales from the points of view of teens, almost none from their parents (the Enemy, usually, in coming-of-age tales, as is older authority generally.) Mothers, parents, and domesticity are perceived by many readers to be the antithesis of exciting stories.
Don Sakers had some musings on the topic, if this link still works:
https://web.archive.org/web/201611232...
Ta, L.
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Over 1,500 answered questions (a few of them mine!) and no search function so far as I can tell ... but I re-read The Hallowed Hunt, and wanted to know if there was more to the erstwhile sorcerer and now petty saint of the Bastard Lewko's story (if I read the novel correctly)? I hope that they both knowingly sacrificed his demon in some grandiloquent act of heroism and sacrifice, instead of usual chaos run amok...TY!
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello Lois I thought the first Penric anthology looked a little underrated on Amazon.es (Amazon Spain) so I thought I´d add this review (in Spanish) under Clariana: https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/1982124296?pf_rd_p=17a988a6-15ad-46df-8d9f-8365d36240ce&pf_rd_r=NAMA654AE8ECH1RKHT29 Do you have a Spanish translator for the Penric novellas yet?
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