[LMB] (news-chat) Passage flap copy

[Pat Mathews]

Wow. I would read that on the strength of that blurb alone, regardless of whatever previous experience I'd had with the series, or your books in general. That is, it should draw in the nonfans as well.

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> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:32:40 -0500
> From: lbujold at myinfmail.com
> To: lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk; LordV at yahoogroups.com; mike at dendarii.com
> Subject: [LMB] (news-chat) Passage flap copy
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> OK, by popular request...
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> Herewith the cover copy for _The Sharing Knife, Vol. 3: Passage_. It was 
> written in-house at HarperCollins, but I was given a chance to edit it, 
> which I did, though fairly lightly -- writing cover copy, or indeed, 
> trying to describe my books briefly in any format, is not one of my 
> favorite skills.
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> I can't imagine being so spoiler-sensitive that the mere jacket flap 
> copy constitutes a spoiler -- and I did make sure there weren't any 
> gross spoilers in it, at some risk of concealing the main thrust of the 
> plot and themes -- but if there are any such sensitives, I'll put in a 
> little spoiler space here just for them.
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> Anyone who wants to copy or quote this elsewhere, please go ahead.
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> THE SHARING KNIFE
> VOLUME THREE: PASSAGE
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> Young Fawn Bluefield and soldier-sorcerer Dag Redwing Hickory have 
> survived magical dangers and found, in each other, love and loyalty. But 
> even their strength and passion cannot overcome the bigotry of their own 
> kin, and so, leaving behind all they have known, the couple sets off to 
> find fresh solutions to the perilous split between their peoples.
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> But they will not journey alone. Along the way they acquire comrades, 
> starting with Fawn’s irrepressible brother Whit, whose future on the 
> Bluefield family farm seems as hopeless as Fawn’s once did. Planning to 
> seek passage on a riverboat heading to the sea, Dag, Fawn, and Whit find 
> themselves allied with a young flatboat captain searching for her father 
> and fiancé, who mysteriously vanished on the river nearly a year ago. As 
> they travel downstream, hoping to find word of the missing men, they 
> inadvertently pick up more followers including a pair of novice 
> Lakewalker patrollers, running away from an honest mistake with 
> catastrophic consequences; a shrewd backwoods hunter stranded in a wreck 
> of boats and hopes; and a farmer boy Dag unintentionally beguiles, 
> leaving Dag with more questions than answers about his growing magery.
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> As the ill-assorted crew is tested and tempered on its journey to where 
> great rivers join, Fawn and Dag will discover surprising new abilities 
> both Lakewalker and farmer, a growing understanding of the bonds between 
> themselves and their kinfolk, and a new world of hazards both human and 
> uncanny.
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