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.
More Answered Questions
Christine
asked
Lois McMaster Bujold:
I've always wondered what makes a story 'good.' What ways do you think would make a story 'good' (that is, why would people choose such a story over others)? Do you think they would say because of the author's excellent writing skills or maybe simply the message?
Krista
asked
Lois McMaster Bujold:
Not really a question? I just finished Penric's Mission (I see you've managed to find a protagonist even crazier than Miles), and I thought you might get a small kick out of this picture. That statue's been sitting on my Bujold shelf for years, for no particular reason, but it's a neat bit of synchronicity. image link: http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/windfallswest/3564497/1673/1673_300.jpg
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