Tom Telford asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I mostly read your books on Audible. I've read all of Vorkosigan and the three main Five Gods books and want to start Penric but its hard to justify using a years worth of credits for short stories. Do you have any plans to release the collections as audiobooks to help solve this sort of issue? Side question: When the Audible Plus program was first introduced why were only some seemly random books available through?

Lois McMaster Bujold
Your Penric problem is alas between you and your budget. I'd point out that they are novellas, not short stories -- each about a third of an average novel long, if that helps your calculations. I suppose you could try the first one, "Penric's Demon", and decide then if they are worth it. Or pick one up once in a while when you are having an otherwise too-busy-to-listen-much month?

The collections, technically, are not mine -- they are a Baen Books exclusive, and Baen does not have audio rights to them. So, no to that one.

Re: Audible, you'd have to ask them. I have no idea why my works were acquired in the order they were, whether constraints were budget or processing time or someone purchasing who had no idea what they were. (Wholesale buyers can't possibly read all the books they acquire for their employers; they have to use other metrics to decide.) I don't actually know how Audible's credits or indeed business generally work, not being an audio consumer myself.

Ta, L.

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