Robin Seina
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I love Ivan character and even more loved his book (Captain Vorpatril's Alliance). Though I enjoyed the most the scene of Cockroach central sinking and reaction of several characters to it. Simon's, Gregor's and Miles' come to mind particularly... Where did idea come from? Also, have you heard this song?: https://brookeabbey.com/track/ivan-you-idiot I love it. Only shame it ends with Civil Campaign.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Besides reading such classic nonfiction books as Why Buildings Fall Down
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and a good deal of other nonfiction on engineering over the years, one of the oldest roots, oddly, was from a climactic scene from the old British comedy The Horse's Mouth, in which... is it spoilers for a film almost as old as I am? -- a bunch of justifiably distrait people unwittingly cross a rug that has been hastily thrown over the floor to conceal a large hole, and... slowly.. sink... out... of... sight...
I'll have to check out the Ivan song.
Ta, L.
Besides reading such classic nonfiction books as Why Buildings Fall Down
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and a good deal of other nonfiction on engineering over the years, one of the oldest roots, oddly, was from a climactic scene from the old British comedy The Horse's Mouth, in which... is it spoilers for a film almost as old as I am? -- a bunch of justifiably distrait people unwittingly cross a rug that has been hastily thrown over the floor to conceal a large hole, and... slowly.. sink... out... of... sight...
I'll have to check out the Ivan song.
Ta, L.
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KR
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Knowing that you’ve done both traditional publishing and quasi-self-publishing, what has your experience of (and motivation for) each of those been like? As I work on my first novel, I sometimes worry about giving up a given setting as a playground if I go trad pub; I don’t want to lose the ability to freely write and share other things in that setting or premise. Is that a valid concern?
Vibhushi Patwa
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Which promotion platform gave you the best results in terms of sales and how?
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