Lois McMaster Bujold
Hi Nicole --
It took me ten minutes to figure out how to actually answer questions using this feature... ah, the learning curve. Again. Succeeded, though, so there.
Anyway, first question, cool! The answer is less cool, I'm afraid. I have nothing new in the publishing pipeline at this time. In general, I find my work-in-progress to be too fragile to discuss during its early stages except with my old trusted Beta readers. Also, talking about things that are only in the idea stage tends to generate reader expectations that one risks disappointing. On the bright side, if I do start talking about something, you probably have a pretty good chance of actually seeing it someday.
The next thing up in the career-maintenance work queue (which goes on independently of anything new) will probably be helping prepare an edition of Sidelines: Talks and Essays for print-on-demand, but first we have to finish up The Spirit Ring, ditto.
Ta, L.
It took me ten minutes to figure out how to actually answer questions using this feature... ah, the learning curve. Again. Succeeded, though, so there.
Anyway, first question, cool! The answer is less cool, I'm afraid. I have nothing new in the publishing pipeline at this time. In general, I find my work-in-progress to be too fragile to discuss during its early stages except with my old trusted Beta readers. Also, talking about things that are only in the idea stage tends to generate reader expectations that one risks disappointing. On the bright side, if I do start talking about something, you probably have a pretty good chance of actually seeing it someday.
The next thing up in the career-maintenance work queue (which goes on independently of anything new) will probably be helping prepare an edition of Sidelines: Talks and Essays for print-on-demand, but first we have to finish up The Spirit Ring, ditto.
Ta, L.
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Kevin Reitz
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Having now read all your novels, I’m more convinced than ever you’d appreciate Miyazaki’s long Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind manga. (Its story overlaps with only the beginning of the movie.) He spent 11 years on it, probably his best work. Vivid characters, deeply moving, purposeful world building, nothing cliché or even particularly familiar. If you’re exploring some manga, why not?
Richard
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
“For God's sake, don't drive the boy into hysterics, Vassily. They can keep it up for hours. And everybody stares at you as if you were the reincarnation of Pierre Le Sanguinaire. Little old ladies come up and threaten you—” Personal experience or observing humanity? :)
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