[LMB] (Chat) Back from the Mythopoeic meeting

[alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:
>    At the charity auction, a copy I donated of _Beguilement_ which sold for a
> tidy sum in brisk bidding, 

Excellent!

> 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.

That is so cool. I have more of an emotional link to the first Ballantine 
edition, because that's the one that I and my family literally read to 
pieces, but the Ace one (other than the royalty issue) was a good-looking 
one, too.

IMHO, the current covers for LOTR paperbacks have nothing on those two 
early editions -- simply in terms of aesthetics, the older ones are far 
more interesting. But then, I really like many of the 1960s SF covers, 
particularly those from Ace and Ballantine. There's a certain look to them 
-- a cross between Art Deco and Salvador Dali -- that's really appealing.

>    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.

Two-thirds of the way through Beguilement (sorry, didn't write down the 
page #), there's a place where "presently" is used when "at present" or 
"currently" or "now" would be correct. Didn't notice anything else.

> _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.

WLW! Do have fun.

--
Alayne McGregor
alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca

"Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself
dusty, then you shouldn't write fiction. It isn't grand enough for you." -- Flannery O'Connor