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461. Gods, Demons, and Retirements with Lois McMaster Bujold

The Assassins of Thasalon
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Catherine and I chat with Lois McMaster Bujold (!!!) about The Assassins of Thasalon. If you like the Penric & Desdemona books as much as we do (which is a LOT) you’ll love this episode!

We cover the origin story of Penric and Desdemona, how her retirement partially rests on self publishing, and how much manga she’s reading and watching – with recommendations.

Thank you to our Patreon community for the transcript, and to Laura G., Francene, Jamie, and Agnes for the questions!

Music: purple-planet.com

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  1. Claudia says:

    Yup, still married, 20 years, 4 kids, and 1 dog later. And no small wonder, also a HUGE fan of Kobna Holbrook’s audio version of the Rivers of London books. I know why I love Lois!

  2. LisaM says:

    Usually I listen to podcasts in the evenings when I’m walking (my exercise carrot) but today I’ll be the only one in my office, so I may listen at work instead. Which may lead to re-reading at work.

  3. Bea says:

    I had to listen to this right away today!

    But I have a book recommendation, on order and chaos and entropy:

    The Order of Time, by Carlo Rovelli

  4. GraceElizabeth says:

    I’m impressed you both managed to keep it together – I’d be reduced to incoherent babbling! What a lovely interview.

  5. Laurel says:

    I love Lois McMaster Bujold. The headline including the word retirement made me afraid she wasn’t going to write anymore, so I was happy to hear it just means she is working at her own pace and self-publishing. Whew!

  6. Laura G says:

    That was amazing. She seems like such a great person and to hear her speak was pretty great. Thank you for this interview.

  7. LN says:

    Such a great interview! And all the questions led to really insightful and interesting answers. It’s lovely also to hear LMB referencing the two authors who turned me on to romance: Georgette Heyer and Jennifer Crusie.

  8. SB Sarah says:

    Thank you, y’all! I was really excited to share this episode with everyone.

  9. Kareni says:

    How very funny! I just finished rereading The Curse of Chalion last night; I enjoyed seeing the religion/world that Bujold created there and is using in the Penric stories.

    Thank you, Lois, Sarah, and Catherine, for a wonderful interview. Thank you, garlic knitter, for the transcript. And thank you, Jamie, for the joke!

  10. ReadKnitSnark says:

    The “second week popularity” of LMB ebooks might be due to the Goodreads “New Updates from Authors You Follow” email that drops on Sundays.

    I get around to reading the email whenever:
    – Read LMB Q&A up top
    – Check out Ilona Andrews blog posts

    – WAIT, LMB RELEASED A NEW BOOK/APPEARED ON SPTB AND NOBODY TOLD ME?!!!

    This is what I get for eschewing social media; I never know about anything until way late. Woe! Woe my need for calmness and sanity!

    Anyhow… Awesome interview! Just lovely. Heart!

  11. chacha1 says:

    Really enjoyed this. LMB is an author I haven’t yet embarked upon even though a lot of people I trust say READ THIS NOW. (So many books.) However, I am now going to actually buy the Penric novella that’s been in my wishlist for months. 🙂

  12. Jim L says:

    Apropos of the Sharing Knife, I adore Fawn as a heroine. With no magic, no esoteric knowledge, and no special birth, she has only the ordinary virtues we can all aspire to: she is observant, she thinks about what she sees, and she has the courage to act in the face of danger. But she’s made of pure win! She gets the traditional romance win (love, good sex, marriage, Happy Ever After in a supportive community), the traditional fantasy win (taking personal action to help defeat great magical evil), and the traditional SF win (effecting a social revolution that changes the world for the better).

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