[LMB] Ekaterin's Book tour

[Tzivia Adler]

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From: "Marty L. Adkins" <adkinslawfirm at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 1:04 PM
Subject: [LMB] Ekaterin's Book tour


>I just sent an off-topic post about an author's virtual book tour.
>
> Does anyone care to speculate about the book Ekaterin's going to
> write about her gardens [coffee table book, pamphlet, etc.], & the
> book tours she might go on?
>
i imagine 2 books - a how-to, illustrated, annecdote-filled thing by 
ekaterine, and a glossy coffe table book done by a professional photo-book 
person.  creating a book about one's hobby seldom has much to do with the 
actual hobby.

i also envision loads of pamphlets (or newspaper columns)  by everyone, 
teens to college students to granparetns:
'a day visit to the vorkosigans gardens'
'a budget copy of lady vorkosigan's garden for the country home'
'how the vokosigans are trying to put one over on everyone - again!'
'the vorkosigans's guide to native barryar flowers, shrubs, and grasses'
'a glimpse of lady ekaterine vorkosigan and her gardens'
'rita vor-skeeter tells all - lady vorkosigan and her secret lover meet 
between burn-weed and love-lies-itching!'


book tours, feh.  that's for people who have to drum up interest in their 
books.  see that big v-o-r in the auther's name?  forget book tours. 
ekaterine has better ways to exhaust herself.  and she hates crowds, i seem 
to remember - or at least being the center of attention in a crowd.

> Would she have a collection of mysteries with herb themes, or has she
> had more than enough mystery in her life?
> Jerrie
does she have the remotest interest in writing?  just because half hte 
people on this list are writing Ye Epic Novel TM *waves at everyone* doesn't 
mean she wants too.  or, more practically, that Our Auther wants to write a 
character who writes.  (let us not forget that ekaterine is a figment of our 
collective imagination, hmmm?)

>
> P. S.  If anyone wants to speculate about mysteries set during
> Barrayar's Time of Isolation, feel free.  Would they be like Maria V.
> Snyder's _Poison Study_, Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael, Peter
> Tremayne's mysteries, Sharan Newman's Catherine LeVendeur?  Is there
> a Barrayaran Harry Turtledove out there, & have we met him [or her, or it] 
> yet?
>
there has to be a peter whimsey type, or a bertie wooster.  the two 
extremes - the upper class is a bunch of useless fops, its the valet or 
butler who figures things out.  or, the useless fop is really clever, if 
only he could apply himself.

ziviya, on topic yet again, this is habit forming