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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Talli Ruksas
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
How do you pronounce Eugin (Vorpatril)? I thought you-jin but Gardner pronounces it oy-gin
Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Ms Bujold: The first piece by you that I read was "The Mountains of Mourning". And I read it in a wonderful Balkan restaurant in Vienna, right on the Ring. I would gladly read "The Physicians of Vilnoc" during a first-class meal (even if the meal is brought into my home these days). But hope I don't have to wait too much longer for iBooks?
Marie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Do you have any cross-references between locations in the Sharing Knife series and locations in "our" world? Some are obvious, e.g. Graymouth = New Orleans, and of course the Grace and Gray rivers are the Ohio and Mississippi but I'd love to try to visualize where Lumpton / West Blue / Hickory Lake and so on would be found.
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