Andrea Berta
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
My favorite book of all time is Curse of Chalion. Do you think that you'll write another sequel to it, either a full-length book or novella? I think there are lots of stories still to be told about the characters in it or in Paladin of Souls. I reread them both at least once a year and always wish for more.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Well, I have more in the world of course -- The Hallowed Hunt and the, now, 11 Penric & Desdemona tales -- but presuming you've already found those, I suspect what you hanker for are the particular characters from those first two novels. Thing is, I feel both Cazaril's and Ista's great spiritual journeys are complete. Anything added would be anticlimax or smudging. Novellas are less ruled out, but would feel like writing my own fanfiction. Which I am not above doing, but the story-notions that have compelled me have gone in other directions.
If one looks beyond that core cast of characters, it's a whole world and there are many other people-possibilities in it, yes, hence Penric & Desdemona, or Ingrey and Ijada for that matter. If you haven't found HH and P&D yet, the question is easier to answer -- I can just point.
In any case, I'm glad the Chalion duo has held up for you after all these years! ...Decades now, oof.
Ta, L,
If one looks beyond that core cast of characters, it's a whole world and there are many other people-possibilities in it, yes, hence Penric & Desdemona, or Ingrey and Ijada for that matter. If you haven't found HH and P&D yet, the question is easier to answer -- I can just point.
In any case, I'm glad the Chalion duo has held up for you after all these years! ...Decades now, oof.
Ta, L,
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Alealea
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I really enjoy listening to the audiobooks, especially the novellas and I have kinda of fallen in love with Grover Gardner's voice. He is really good at expressing the humor and sarcasm that I love in your writing. Is there hope that he would narrate a new audiobook version of the Curse of Chalion or none whatsoever ? (kinda of hopping to suggest the idea if it's not already there ^^)
Marielle Armstrong
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I received a gift of Ivory Vikings -- it has the story of a man named Inleif, the first elected bishop of Iceland. He went to be consecrated after his election, but not knowing the ropes he went first to the Holy Roman Emperor. As part of his entourage he packed along a live polar bear as a gift, which he left with the emperor; did you know about Inleif and his bear when you added Fafa to the Hallowed Hunt?
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