[LMB] (news-chat) Miles in Love in Print

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 04:39 PM 12/31/2007, Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:

>     What I'd been watching eagerly for was the galleys of _The Sharing
>Knife, Vol. 3: Passage_, which were supposed to have arrived Saturday
>morning but still haven't shown.  Delayed in dispatching or transit, I
>suppose.  Can't pursue it till Wednesday, now.  I'll just have to find
>another project for New Year's Day.   I have a copy of _The Elegant
>Universe_ from the library, a stack of other books, and a home office
>due for its annual shoveling-out, so I won't lack for options.

I rather assume that galleys involve a search for typos?  By the time 
it's typeset, I rather assume an ms. is pretty well set in concrete?

>     Tonight: pizza, wine, and DVDs with a couple of close friends, very
>low-key, which is just about my definition of an ideal party.

Mine was alone at home; my spouse hit the sack at 10:00 PM.

>And better still, my right ear functions again.  Like Miles, I now
>have a prosthetic bone transplant.  I have back about 80%, a trifle
>muddy when listening to music tho' that may yet clear out some more, but
>just fine for conversation, which had become a strain in monaural.
>Hooray for 21st Century surgery!

Ain't prosthetics wonderful?  Mine is in the form of an aortic heart valve.


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Regards, Pete
pgranzeau at cox.net