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.
"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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Rob Yale
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I’m wondering about this: “It bothered him extremely that he could not now remember the man's name, though he had spoken, hypocritically, at his funeral.” In The Warriors Apprentice, Miles seemed to have eschewed speaking at the dead pilot’s funeral. Am I missing something? Rob Yale
Richard Molpus
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Question for the Sharing Knife Universe: Are there any 'large' cities in Luthlia, or nothing by small towns the size of Glassforge and the like. I recon Ironforge is easily 15 - 20 thousand people, Glassforge is 5 Thousand. I can't see anything in Luthlia being larger the 5K people, from the carrying capacity (agricultural capacity) of the land. Or is it just small family encampments?
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