Actually, better than that. I'm in Lois McMaster Bujold's writing group. I get to read what's happening with Miles about a year before most people.
Well, actually we haven't been meeting formally as a group for a while. But we still trade--I'm one of the small circle of readers who critiques Lois's manuscripts. And she critiques mine. You'll notice that she wrote the blurb for The Wild Swans, and she wrote the first review on Amazon for it.
She joined our writing group while she was writing Memory. I had heard about her books for years (Patricia C. Wrede, also in the group, had raved about them for years). But when Lois joined, and she realized I wasn't familiar with her work, she asked that I NOT read her previous books, because she wanted to get a critique on Memory from someone new to her work. That was interesting, to pick up the story ten books in. I got halfway through the critique of the next one, Komarr, when I finally begged her to let me read her backlist, and she agreed. So I read all of 'em in roughly three weeks. Gulp.
Lois has been extremely kind to me. She is a wonderful mentor who has taught me a lot and she is a very good friend. Here's earlier entry about her.
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Re: OMG! You read Miles too!
Date: 2003-03-08 12:34 pm (UTC)Well, actually we haven't been meeting formally as a group for a while. But we still trade--I'm one of the small circle of readers who critiques Lois's manuscripts. And she critiques mine. You'll notice that she wrote the blurb for The Wild Swans, and she wrote the first review on Amazon for it.
She joined our writing group while she was writing Memory. I had heard about her books for years (Patricia C. Wrede, also in the group, had raved about them for years). But when Lois joined, and she realized I wasn't familiar with her work, she asked that I NOT read her previous books, because she wanted to get a critique on Memory from someone new to her work. That was interesting, to pick up the story ten books in. I got halfway through the critique of the next one, Komarr, when I finally begged her to let me read her backlist, and she agreed. So I read all of 'em in roughly three weeks. Gulp.
Lois has been extremely kind to me. She is a wonderful mentor who has taught me a lot and she is a very good friend. Here's earlier entry about her.
Cheers,
Peg