Eleanor With Cats
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Can you tell us anything about Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen?
Lois McMaster Bujold
I've been mulling over when to say more. I'm thinking late fall, just before the eARC becomes available, but I'll probably break down and say some things sooner.
I figure if I give you all very much information, you'll all race ahead and make up the book in your heads yourselves, and then be artificially nonplussed, later, when the book I wrote doesn't match the one/s you've envisioned. If a reader has less time between learning about a book and reading it -- picking it up cold in a store, say -- there is less chance for that phenomenon to develop.
It is not a war story; it is about grownups; it is not grimdark but still embeds some serious themes. It is science fiction. I expect reader response to be all over the map, because it always is.
Some readers will love it (I say this with some confidence, because some already have), some will hate it, and there will be approximately ten thousand reviews that go, "This wasn't the book I wanted! Here, let me give you this 500 word outline of outline what she should have written..." Each one different from all the others, of course. (That one's a sucker-bet.)
What say you all? How much information to you actually want to get, in advance?
Ta, L.
I've been mulling over when to say more. I'm thinking late fall, just before the eARC becomes available, but I'll probably break down and say some things sooner.
I figure if I give you all very much information, you'll all race ahead and make up the book in your heads yourselves, and then be artificially nonplussed, later, when the book I wrote doesn't match the one/s you've envisioned. If a reader has less time between learning about a book and reading it -- picking it up cold in a store, say -- there is less chance for that phenomenon to develop.
It is not a war story; it is about grownups; it is not grimdark but still embeds some serious themes. It is science fiction. I expect reader response to be all over the map, because it always is.
Some readers will love it (I say this with some confidence, because some already have), some will hate it, and there will be approximately ten thousand reviews that go, "This wasn't the book I wanted! Here, let me give you this 500 word outline of outline what she should have written..." Each one different from all the others, of course. (That one's a sucker-bet.)
What say you all? How much information to you actually want to get, in advance?
Ta, L.
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Joseph
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
We have done a cosplay of Miles and Ekaterin based on written descriptions and some imagination (it helps that my other half is 5" taller than I am) but we also want to do a generic Vor couple. I want to portray a Major in ImpSec, but I cannot find a full listing of the ranks with collar tab colors in any wiki. Do you have it all written out? Also, from my lady: What do Vor ladies wear routinely?
Steven Sarafian
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Dear Ms Bujold: I just had the pleasure of re-reading The Flowers of Vashnoi and noticed that for a run of three pages the character elsewhere named Ingi is referred to as Ingisi. Is Ingisi the full name and Ingi a diminutive, or might this be a typo? In any event, thank you for much great reading and re-reading.
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