Lois McMaster Bujold - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Welcome to my MySpace page. I am the author of twenty-two novels - including the Vorkosigan Saga books - and winner of two Nebula Awards for Best Novel (Falling Free and Paladin of Souls ), four Hugo Awards for Best Novel ( Paladin of Souls , The Vor Game, Barrayar, and Mirror Dance), as well as the Hugo and Nebula Awards for the novella The Mountains of Mourning. My work has been translated into 21 languages.My most recent fantasy series began with The Sharing Knife Volume One: Beguilement which was a New York Times bestseller. Please click HERE to read the first THREE chapters for free -- I love it when the text gets to speak for itself.The second volume, The Sharing Knife Volume Two: Legacy went on sale June 26, 2007.The paperback edition of The Sharing Knife Volume One: Beguilement went on sale April 24, 2007 and includes a sneak peek of The Sharing Knife Volume Two: Legacy. The third volume, Passage, goes on sale April 22, 2008, and the fourth and final volume, Horizon, is scheduled for February, 2009.Would you like to receive exclusive information, early chapter excerpts, tour information and more? Click HERE to sign up for my Author Tracker subscriber list.

My Interests

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I'd like to meet:

Readers of all kinds!

Music:

Steeleye Span, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Ray Lynch, Springsteen, Eurythmics, Mannheim Steamroller, Warren Zevon, Tom Petty, Michael Longcor, Tom Smith, The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Christopher Parkening, David Hudson, Enya, Dire Straits, Loreena McKennitt

Movies:

LOTR, all three parts, even though I am a book purist. All sorts of animation and anime. Escanaba In Da Moonlight. Practical Magic. Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile. Bride & Prejudice. Sense & Sensibility. Kung Fu Hustle. Shakespeare in Love. Red Sun. Richard Lester's (accept no substitutes) early 70's The Three Musketeers and the Four Musketeers. The first Star Wars trilogy, before later edits. Branaugh's Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost (the musical) and so on; also Twelfth Night (1996 version with Helena Bonham Carter), Richard III (1995 with Ian McKellan), the 1968 Romeo & Juliet, 1967 Taming of the Shrew.

Television:

Haven't watched much TV lately...

Books:

Authors, really, since I mostly read their books in bunches. Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Sayers' Peter Wimsey books, Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tales, Kipling's Kim; anything by Georgette Heyer. More recently, lots of Jennifer Crusie and Amanda Quick. Tolkien of course. Cordwainer Smith, Randall Garrett, P.G. Wodehouse, Diana Wynne Jones, Edward Gorey. Also lately, the trilogy beginning with The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. Lots more...

Heroes:

Fire fighters, EMT folks everywhere. Although I'd rather not meet them in the line of their business, come to think. Among SF writers I admired, the late Poul Anderson comes high on the list of people I wouldn't mind emulating; quiet, writing to the end, seeming to have struck an enviable balance between a productive career and a warm personal life, rich in family and friends. Not precisely a hero, but someone of whom one might say, "Yes, waiter, bring me a life like that person is having..."

My Blog

first mutant fruits

Oopsie -- In _Passage_ a sharp-eyed fan on the Baen Board inquired, "Shouldn't that last word on page 305 be "towhead", not "Beargrass"? Actually, it should not be there at all. That sentence *in...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Fri, 02 May 2008 01:09:00 PST

3rd Eos blog post is up

Ah ha, the third and last of my blog posts on Passage for Eos is up -- http://outofthiseos.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/guest-blogger-l .html It covers some of the same reflections I touched on in my rec...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Thu, 01 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

writers in spa--a-a-c-e...

Wow -- A friend forwarded me a document, with the note: "I am attaching a pdf file ISS_Media_2008.pdf, that lists all the stuff the astronauts read for fun on the space station and whil...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:39:00 PST

Passage first at Fictionwise

Ah ha -- I see Passage is the Number 1 recent bestseller at Fictionwise for this past two-week period. Cool! http://www.fictionwise.com/topstories.htmhow E-books are fa...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:32:00 PST

TSK map

Fan Jon forwards me this link to a pretty color map he, um, pixeled up of the wide green world, so far... http://www.jmarrdesign.com/sk/ Ta, L....
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:37:00 PST

more foreign covers

I've just added 11 new cover scans from my Chinese publisher in Szechwan, Science Fiction World, the mainland crew who do simplified characters. These were kindly sent to me by a Chinese fan; I only ...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:06:00 PST

technofrustrated

OK...Someone named Allen from France sent me a request for an e-mail interview appended to his friend's request, but MySpace would not let me reply to it because he wasn't already friended, and once I...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:27:00 PST

Bujold audio clip -- 2 short readings

The Star Trib website has this reading, too, which I went down to record for them just before I had to take off on the book tour. It includes a snippet from the novella "Labyrinth" in Borders of...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:39:00 PST

My First Sale post on Dear Author

Also while I was away, this was published on Dear Author.com... http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2008/04/25/my-first-sale-by- lois-mcmaster-bujold-she-got-by-with-a-little-help-from-her- friends/ Now, th...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:56:00 PST

Star Tribune profile

Ah ha -- I returned today from my short but succesful book tour for Passage, and found this very nice profile, by books-page editor Sally Williams, in the Sunday paper. It's very extensive;...
Posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:51:00 PST