[LMB] Legacy errata help

[Lois McMaster Bujold]

[LMB] Legacy errata help
Jason Etheridge jason at etheridge.org
Wed Oct 17 20:07:13 BST 2007



On 18/10/2007, Lois McMaster Bujold <lbujold at myinfmail.com> wrote:
 >     My editor requests I turn in  a list of any errors found in
 > _Legacy_, so they may be corrected in the mass market.   Did anyone spot
 > any?  I'd like to collect the list promptly, and send it to her all 
at once.


Lois, is there a cut-off date for getting you contributions to the
list? I only finished reading _Legacy_ a couple of weeks back (and did
notice a few errors as I went), but I'll have to go over it again to
dredge them up.


*** By early next week, I think.  I need to get this minor chore 
wrapped, because I have bigger chores pending.  My hope is to get all my 
fiddly tasks nailed before I depart for Ohioana and World Fantasy at the 
end of next week.  I still have one preface left to write.

I suppose I could ask -- what would you all like me, or indeed, any 
writer, to talk about in such a preface?  (This one's for _The 
Vorkosigan Companion_.)  We already have a long interview, a meandering 
article by me on the VK series, and, if there's room, a sort of "advice 
to new writers" article.



It never occurred to me that publishers would be interested in errata
from readers, though I guess it should have! Perhaps readers of new
books (if--like me--they're pedantic enough to notice these things)
should compile such lists and send them in.

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to send them to the authors.  But don't send 
such directly to the publishers.  Beware, some authors will want them, 
others won't; some publishers do these sorts of corrections between 
editions, others don't.

Cheers,
Jason.

PS _Legacy_ was fantastic!


*** Thanks!

I'm very much looking forward to the second
duology in that world...


*** Me, too.  The artwork for TSK#3: Passage is in progress this very 
week.  I've seen the sketch: Dag, Fawn, Whit and Berry on a hill, wide 
green landscape with winding river in the distance.  An earlier idea, 
scene of a a flatboat on the river, was rejected by Sales, but this one 
is going to be good-looking after Julie Bell gets done with it, too.

Ta, L.


and to the next Vorkosigan book... and
anything else you write. :-)

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