Ana Martins
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Lois, Some of your books are not easy to find and others appear out of publication. Also, living in Portugal, even if I buy them on British Amazon or American Amazon, I might have to pay high shipping fees depending if they go through customs. Is there any plan for re-editions of all your books to mass-market paperbacks or hardcovers?
Lois McMaster Bujold
My ebooks have zero shipping costs, and one platform or another ought to be available in Portugal. Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, and Kobo plus some Google Play Bookstore books should all be pretty international, and have most/all of my backlist available in e-editions. Kindle, I know, offers free downloads of the Kindle reading app, which you should be able to pull in on whatever device you used for this Q. I suspect the other vendors are equally buyer-friendly.
There are no plans for any re-issues of paper editions at this time. Any such would require either a new frontlist novel and the promise of more, or a big media adaptation, neither of which are in the offing just now. The latter may change, the former probably will not. (Reissues as hardcovers are wildly rare -- the writer would have to be Tolkien-level. And mass market paperback sales generally have taken a beating from ebooks, and are struggling at the moment.)
Meanwhile, most of my paper books are still available used, or new through various bookstores (Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis for a case in point) or online vendors, but then you are back to the shipping-costs issue.
Good luck, L.
My ebooks have zero shipping costs, and one platform or another ought to be available in Portugal. Apple Books, Amazon Kindle, and Kobo plus some Google Play Bookstore books should all be pretty international, and have most/all of my backlist available in e-editions. Kindle, I know, offers free downloads of the Kindle reading app, which you should be able to pull in on whatever device you used for this Q. I suspect the other vendors are equally buyer-friendly.
There are no plans for any re-issues of paper editions at this time. Any such would require either a new frontlist novel and the promise of more, or a big media adaptation, neither of which are in the offing just now. The latter may change, the former probably will not. (Reissues as hardcovers are wildly rare -- the writer would have to be Tolkien-level. And mass market paperback sales generally have taken a beating from ebooks, and are struggling at the moment.)
Meanwhile, most of my paper books are still available used, or new through various bookstores (Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis for a case in point) or online vendors, but then you are back to the shipping-costs issue.
Good luck, L.
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Bob
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Love Your latest series of book, world of 5 gods. Going back and reading he orld of the Five Gods and keeping up with World of the Five Gods : Penric & Desdemona. You write so well. I wish I could write as well as you. Does your editor and friends help you as you write a book or when you finish? I have written a couple of books but that is far as it goes since I keep slipping into present tense from past tense.
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.
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