Catherine Nemeth asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Are there any plans to release “Penric and the Demonic Ox” as a traditional paper book? I understand the current economics of paper books and the publishing industry and the increasing unwillingness not to invest in books that aren’t likely to be mega sellers. Thanks for writing all these wonderful stories and for answering all my questions.

Lois McMaster Bujold
"Penric and the Demonic Ox" has been offered to Subterranean for their usual limited edition hardcover; I'll make a blog post if/when we get a contract. (As of this moment, August 2025, Blackstone Audio already has it in their production pipeline, release planned for October.)

I'm presently considering whether to put the remaining Pen & Des stories into my own print-on-demand collections. Much will depend on how the upcoming _Two Tales_, the little collection of stray Vorkosiverse novellas, does when we finally get it out via the Ingram's program, through which we've already done "Knife Children" and _The Spirit Ring_.

There are doubtless publishers who would take the remaining potential collections, but apart from the sales volume problem, they all want e-rights, which I'd be an economic idiot to give up. I do like the flexibility of the ala carte e-publication, that make dropping in prequel tales much less of an issue.

Ta, L.

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