Mary
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In this past year I've discovered audio books. Now I own your entire collection in three formats! (Hoarder, much?) I've found that some books really shine when read aloud, no matter who reads them, some shine when presented by a great narrator and some have all their deficits glaringly exposed by being voiced aloud. (Yours shine. Like the sun!) What has been your experience as author and a listener with audio format?
Lois McMaster Bujold
As an author, I have been delighted with the new internet downloading market for audiobooks, which has blown it wide open making room enough even for my work. (When it was physical media only, it used to be a very restricted market.)
I'm not a very aural-brained person, so I don't listen to audiobooks at this time, preferring visual print/pixels. I also lack things like a long commute, time on a treadmill, or other dead-time that they can fill. If I have worsening eye issues as I age, that may shift.
Ta, L.
I'm not a very aural-brained person, so I don't listen to audiobooks at this time, preferring visual print/pixels. I also lack things like a long commute, time on a treadmill, or other dead-time that they can fill. If I have worsening eye issues as I age, that may shift.
Ta, L.
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
In the Vorkosigan Saga, all the (lead) characters end up in happy, heterosexual, harmonious... satisfying relationships. Even Bel, whom Miles thought of as more man than woman, ends up with a quadi woman. In a world that is otherwise so believable, it makes it all feel less realistic, untrue to imperfect human nature. What prompted you to write them this way? How much did you consider this aspect of the stories?
Laura
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
When you are busy writing do you notice a decline in your interest in reading? Or maybe in reading works similar to what you are writing? Perhaps this pertains more to fiction than non-fiction, but I've experienced seasons when a world is actively gestating inside my head and similar stories lose their appeal. Curious to know if others experience something similar. Thank you!
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