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Robbi Holman
Robbi Holman asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

I just finished Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, so I have completed the entire Vorkosigan Saga over the last four or five months. Is there anything I can do to stem the tide of bereft-ness I feel? Blah : (

Lois McMaster Bujold Try the Chalion series, or The Sharing Knife tetralogy. Neither will be the same, note, not even as each other, because what would be the point of that (from the writer's point of view, at least.) But if you can go into them planning to take them for what they are, rather than pre-riled 'cause they aren't another Miles book, I think they would repay your eyeball time.

In other current writers, I can rec Megan Whalen Turner's YA fantasy series starting with The Thief, and Ben Aaronovitch's urban/crime fantasy series starting with Rivers of London -- US title Midnight Riot.

That should do for starters...

Ta, L.
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Andrew asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

What are the demographics of your biggest fans? Obviously it must vary by novel, but there's probably a strong center of fans who are parents or of parenting age, given how family (and dynamics thereof) is a recurring theme in your work. Indeed, one of the top questions on Goodreads is about your family. Your portrayal of family dynamics makes your stories powerful as well as fresh in the SF market, in my opinion.

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Dan Moren asked Lois McMaster Bujold:

Hi Lois! Longtime fan, thanks to my cousins, who introduced me to Cordelia & Miles some twenty years ago. As an SF author who's mainly gone the trad route and only dabbled in self-pub, I'm curious about the process of self-publishing the Penric novellas vis-a-vis the traditional publishing route. What's the process like for Penric? Do you hire editors, copyeditors, etc.? Do you prefer one way over the other? Thanks!

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