Lois Bujold
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just a note to Goodreads users about the inadvisability of using the public Q&A column for private questions... to which the short answer is, please DON'T... ?
Lois McMaster Bujold
One or two times a month, I get a question posted to my Goodreads Q&A that is not a question about my work, but rather, some obviously personal message or request that cannot be answered privately in this column. Anything that goes up here is for all eyes to see. Please stop handing me the dilemma of trying to guess whether it would be worse to appear to blow the questioner off by not answering at all, or embarrassing us both by trying to answer here. Use the Goodreads private messaging system for such queries -- that's what it's for.
(A separate subcategory are "questions" that are actually the OP's attempt to parasitize my space for promoting their own self-published work, with not only no relation to my work, but no relation to my genres. Despite my sympathy for (not to mention memory of) the desperation of being an aspiring clueless newbie, I have steeled myself to start deleting those unanswered.)
Ta, L.
(A separate subcategory are "questions" that are actually the OP's attempt to parasitize my space for promoting their own self-published work, with not only no relation to my work, but no relation to my genres. Despite my sympathy for (not to mention memory of) the desperation of being an aspiring clueless newbie, I have steeled myself to start deleting those unanswered.)
Ta, L.
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Sarah Pacetti
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hello! I've just started Shards of Honor and I'm absolutely entranced. Your writing is so visual and captivating. I'm hooked! For many many years you've been one of my sister's absolute favorite authors and I was wondering if you have any signings or appearances planned, so we might try to make a point to come out and see you some time and nerd out about science fiction? Thank you!
Will Bodine
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Lois McMaster Bujold, First of all, in my household, my father regarded you as the best that SciFi had to offer and it was stories of Miles retold to me as an asthmatic child in the ER, for the umpteenth time impatiently breathing away through a nebuliser cursing myself and my asthma for millionth time, that place you upon so high a pedestal. Was Dubauer based upon a real life person?
Nicolas Mendoza
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I just realized that Miles in The Warrior's Apprentice is the Wizard of Oz! Elena the Scarecrow needs an education. Arde the Tin Man is emotionally dependent on wormhole jumps and his "bottle of oil", the green booze. Baz Jesek is, of course, the Cowardly Lion. Miles convinces them that they already have it in them, and flies away in a balloon while the Dendarii cheer. There's no place like Barrayar! Am I close?
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