Mckenzie
Mckenzie asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

How do you come up with such great books?

Lois McMaster Bujold As for how I come up with books, I could talk about how I write, though not in this tiny answer box -- Sidelines: Talks and Essays and The Vorkosigan Companion, plus some of my interviews, https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Au... go into my process at length. Also more if you scroll back to earlier in this Q&A column. (This column could really use a search function. Anyone with more energy this morning than me is welcome to throw in some links to earlier answers on the topic in the comments.)

"Great" is a reader's judgment of their reading experience, which is different for every reader-book combination. So even if you just limited your survey to people who liked my books, the array of reasons and reactions are bewilderingly varied, as any cruise through my reader reviews here on GR or Amazon will show. (Plus some people who had a great reading may not be articulate about why -- commercial fiction read for pleasure does not normally come with a quiz next period.) So that half of your question is the one the writer is least able to answer.

Ta, L.

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