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(lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed Sep. 20th, 2017 12:59 pm)
lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed Sep. 20th, 2017 12:59 pm)Baen's mass market paperback edition of Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen is coming up next week. Official launch date is next Tuesday, Sept. 26th. However, I don't think this one has a hard don't-sell-before date, so it will probably start trickling into brick-and-mortar bookstores whenever they get around to opening the boxes in the back room.
My box of author's copies arrived. Front looks like this, more or less -- Baen's shiny foil does not scan well.
The back looks like this:
They somehow got the first draft of the cover copy onto this one, and not the final one as it appears on the hardcover jacket flap. That last line was not supposed to be, misleadingly, All About Miles, but rather to put the focus on the book's actual protagonists and plot, and read, "...the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules, and Oliver and Cordelia must work together to reconcile the past, the present, and the future."
Ah, well. Most readers (who bother to read the back at all) will figure it out, I expect. Those that don't will be no more confused than usual.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on September, 20
My box of author's copies arrived. Front looks like this, more or less -- Baen's shiny foil does not scan well.
The back looks like this:
They somehow got the first draft of the cover copy onto this one, and not the final one as it appears on the hardcover jacket flap. That last line was not supposed to be, misleadingly, All About Miles, but rather to put the focus on the book's actual protagonists and plot, and read, "...the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules, and Oliver and Cordelia must work together to reconcile the past, the present, and the future."
Ah, well. Most readers (who bother to read the back at all) will figure it out, I expect. Those that don't will be no more confused than usual.
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on September, 20
(velveteenrabbi_feed Sep. 15th, 2017 05:44 am)
velveteenrabbi_feed Sep. 15th, 2017 05:44 am)For food dipped
in honey, say
"your love leaves
my fingers fragrant."
Don't rush to wash.
Let sweetness linger.
For savory dishes
with stone fruits
say "may the year
balance my sweet
with your salt."
Let your mouth water.
For nubbled citrus
steeped in vodka,
recite the verse
"as a deer thirsts."
Close your eyes.
Savor every drop.
I ran across a machzor (high holiday prayerbook) from 1931 recently. The first thing in the table of contents is "Benediction on making the culinary combination." The thing itself is pretty prosaic -- it's just a prayer for the practice of eruv tavshilin. (Click on the link to learn more about that.) But it sparked my poetic imagination.
[A]s a deer thirsts. See Psalm 42, verse 2.
[N]ubbled citrus / steeped in vodka. See Etrogcello.
Shabbat shalom to all who celebrate!
(velveteenrabbi_feed Sep. 14th, 2017 06:08 am)
velveteenrabbi_feed Sep. 14th, 2017 06:08 am)Every year, as the Jewish holidays approach, someone seeks me out because they’re struggling with forgiveness. Maybe this person is the adult child of a narcissist who was a cruel and self-centered parent. Maybe this person feels betrayed by an authority figure, a mentor or teacher who let them down. There are many variations. What they have in common is, they don’t feel able to forgive someone who hurt them, and they’re worried about what their inability to forgive says about them.
What does Judaism teach about the obligation to forgive, and why is this coming up for everyone now?...
That's the beginning of my latest essay for The Wisdom Daily. Read the whole thing here: When granting forgiveness is not mandatory during the high holidays.
(lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed Sep. 12th, 2017 12:32 pm)
lois_mcmaster_bujold_feed Sep. 12th, 2017 12:32 pm)Aha. I just received my author's copy of the new French language omnibus of the Chalion novels, plus "Penric's Demon" as a bonus for French readers. Bragelonne has been the long-time publisher of my fantasy works in France.
Trade paperback size, 1268 very thin pages. I trust it will seem a bargain.
Translated, if I am reading correctly, by Melanie Fazi and Emmanuelle Casse-Castric.
Front cover:
and back:
I have no idea whether the cover art is bespoke or generic, but I like to think it refers to, well, a lot of things; assorted characters' armor, and of course the five fingers for the five gods. Artist credit goes to Johann Bodin.
Tell your French-reading friends...
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on September, 20
Trade paperback size, 1268 very thin pages. I trust it will seem a bargain.
Translated, if I am reading correctly, by Melanie Fazi and Emmanuelle Casse-Castric.
Front cover:
and back:
I have no idea whether the cover art is bespoke or generic, but I like to think it refers to, well, a lot of things; assorted characters' armor, and of course the five fingers for the five gods. Artist credit goes to Johann Bodin.
Tell your French-reading friends...
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on September, 20
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