[LMB] Book!

[Hendon, Alison]

I liked the cover on the galley but was wondering where Fawn's black
hair had gone - it was chestnut on my copy.

Alison

Alison Hendon
Youth Selection Team Leader
Brooklyn Public Library
a.hendon at brooklynpubliclibrary.org
 

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> [mailto:lois-bujold-bounces at lists.herald.co.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Lois McMaster Bujold
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:05 PM
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> Subject: [LMB] Book!
> 
> Ah ha --
> 
>     UPS brought me, overnight from my editor, two 
> freshly-printed copies of _The Sharing Knife, Vol. 3: 
> Passage_ -- it's real now, the die is cast, the print is run, 
> etc. etc.  It's *really* pretty.  You can see the little 
> flatboats down on the river in the distance better, too -- 
> all that research I put the patient Julie Bell through for 
> the original cover sketches wasn't wasted after all.  I like 
> the way the landscape extends around the corner onto the spine.
> 
>     I see they got the Author's Note in, as well.  That's 
> something I added at the last minute, after reflecting upon 
> my sources.  It was inserted after I'd proofread the galleys, 
> so I didn't get to check it after type was set, or whatever 
> they do to get ink on the page these days -- it's missing two 
> commas and a conjunction, but I expect readers will figure it 
> out anyway.
> 
>     I'm not sure if it would be a spoiler to post the 
> Author's Note -- it is at the end rather than the beginning 
> of the book for a reason besides space-available.
> 
>     The print run is comparable to the prior two volumes, 
> very good for the genre, short of mainstream break-out 
> numbers (thinking of guys with "R.R." in their initials.  
> Should I have been "Lois R. R. Bujold"?  Too 
> late...)    I suppose it's unrealistic to look for a great 
> jump upward 
> in sales at this point in such a closely-connected series' 
> life cycle -- although, I reflect, Rowling managed it 
> somehow.  Ack!  Book launch madness will pass -- it always 
> does -- but at this stage, it's always like watching a horse 
> race upon which one has bet a year of one's life.
> 
>     Ta, L.
> 
> 
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