Knife Children - Lois McMaster Bujold

pdurrant · 02-05-2019, 08:44 AM

There's a new Novella out from Lois McMaster Bujold:

Amazon UK
Amazon US

It's a stand-alone fantasy set in the world of her Sharing knife series. Blurb in spoiler tags in case you just want to buy it and read it immediately.

Spoiler:

Terisa de morgan · 02-05-2019, 09:05 AM

Yeees, I'm going to reread the tetralogy before.

pwalker8 · 02-05-2019, 10:02 AM

Since magazines have been on the down turn for a long while, a number of authors are experimenting with self publishing shorter length (I'm assuming that the publisher listed is her literary agency, I could be wrong) and more experimental works. It would be interesting to find out how well that works in terms of sales, and how they publicize the works so the buying public is aware of them. I know that Corriea does the same.

Dopedangel · 02-06-2019, 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pwalker8

Since magazines have been on the down turn for a long while, a number of authors are experimenting with self publishing shorter length (I'm assuming that the publisher listed is her literary agency, I could be wrong) and more experimental works. It would be interesting to find out how well that works in terms of sales, and how they publicize the works so the buying public is aware of them. I know that Corriea does the same.

From what I see authors that already have a fan base for a running series but publishers have stopped picking up new books such authors have started to self publish short stories or novellas to gauge interest for whole length novels. So I try to buy these to encourage the authors.

02-05-2019, 08:44 AM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 71,506 Karma: 306214458 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Voyage	Knife Children - Lois McMaster Bujold There's a new Novella out from Lois McMaster Bujold: Amazon UK Amazon US It's a stand-alone fantasy set in the world of her Sharing knife series. Blurb in spoiler tags in case you just want to buy it and read it immediately. Spoiler: "Lakewalker Barr Foxbrush returns from two years of patrolling the bitter wilds of Luthlia against the enigmatic, destructive entities called malices, only to find that the secret daughter he’d left behind in the hinterland of Oleana has disappeared from her home after a terrible accusation. The search for her will call on more of Barr’s mind and heart than just his mage powers, as he tries to balance his mistakes of the past and his most personal duties to the future. A stand-alone story set in the world of The Sharing Knife." Last edited by pdurrant; 02-05-2019 at 09:57 AM.

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Terisa de morgan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,233 Karma: 11768331 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Madrid, Spain Device: Kobo Clara/Aura One/Forma,XiaoMI 5, iPad, Huawei MediaPad, YotaPhone 2	Yeees, I'm going to reread the tetralogy before.

02-05-2019, 10:02 AM	#3
pwalker8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,195 Karma: 70314280 Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Device: iPad Pro, iPad mini, Kobo Aura, Amazon paperwhite, Sony PRS-T2	Since magazines have been on the down turn for a long while, a number of authors are experimenting with self publishing shorter length (I'm assuming that the publisher listed is her literary agency, I could be wrong) and more experimental works. It would be interesting to find out how well that works in terms of sales, and how they publicize the works so the buying public is aware of them. I know that Corriea does the same.