[LMB] (Chat) Back from the Mythopoeic meeting

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

So...

    I got back yesterday evening from my weekend in Norman, OK (followed 
by a visit with friends in Ft. Worth.)  I've sent Mike the speech I gave 
at the Mythopoeic awards banquet for posting, and will pass along the 
URL when he gets it up.  Very interesting conference, if tiny, with lots 
of good conversations and several enthusastic Bujold fans, including, it 
turns out, fellow GoH Amy Sturgis, who is doing some interesting things 
on the academic side.  I didn't get to listent to as many papers as I 
would have liked, but I did have a well-attended reading.  The award for 
adult fantasy this year went to Neil Gaiman's _Aanansi Boys_, which I 
clearly need to read.  (_The Hallowed Hunt_ was also a nominee -- so, 
how about that Ch. 22...?)

    At the charity auction, a copy I donated of _Beguilement_ which sold 
for a tidy sum in brisk bidding, and picked up some oddments incuding a 
couple of manga for a buck (amusing, very junior-high), and a set of the 
Ace first paperback edition of the LotR trilogy in very good condition, 
replacing my first, beloved, lost copy of _Fellowship_, so I was chuffed 
about that.

    The copy-edited manuscript of _Legacy_ was waiting on my front 
doorstep when the taxi delivered me from the airport, so I shall be 
employed on that for the next few days.  In general it looks very clean, 
but this is my last chance for any tweaks, so I need to give it a 
careful re-reading (for the gazillionth time).   _The Wide Green World_ 
was left last week at the end of Ch. 19, on the verge of what I suspect 
will be the climax sequence of the first volume, so I'm very anxious to 
get back to it.  Even though the end of this volume will only be the 
halfway mark of the duology's story arc as a whole.  I need more walks, 
clearly.

    If anyone posts any reviews of or comments on _Beguilement_ 
anywhere, blogs and the like as well as other venues, do post links.  
(Or if you spot any, pass 'em along.)  There was a short review in this 
month's _Locus_, I noticed.  I did an e-mail interview for another 
website due to go up in early September, which is also supposed to post 
a review.  Both the (male) reviewers so far seemed to have swallowed 
down the romance aspects of the first half of the story without choking 
unduly, but I have no idea if the trend will continue.

Ta, L.





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