Dinner with Pat and Lois
Apr. 25th, 2003 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pegkerrIt has been too long, so I called up both Pat Wrede and Lois McMaster Bujold and asked them, couldn't we get together? We met at the Good Earth, one of our favorite places for dinner together.
Lois has just gotten back from New Zealand and felt rather fried. "I had two Wednesdays this week," she said. She was invited to be the Guest of Honor at a convention there, and well, since she was in New Zealand anyway, she decided to take a bus tour ("so I wouldn't have to worry about driving on the left side of the road"). She had brought back a lot of post cards that she showed me, including a number from the stop she'd made at the Hobbiton site. She got to actually enter to the door of Bag End and look out the window at the party field. I was soooo jealous. "It looks a bit forlorn now, because they've let everything go back to the wild," she said, "as if all the hobbits had left because of the close of the Fourth Age." Now that she's back in town, she will start going through the galleys for Paladin of Souls, the sequel to The Curse of Chalion. This one's told from Ista's point of view. Lois forgot to bring the cover flat along to show me, but she assured me that it's gorgeous. The plan is after that to write another book in the Chalion universe, this one set in the equivilent of medieval Germany. "I blame one of the books that Pat lent me, on mad German princes, for getting me started."
After dinner, Pat invited me back to see her new house. It's still full of partially unpacked boxes (and the partially unpacked boxes are full of exploring cats), but the house is taking shape quite nicely. She had expanded and totally redone the kitchen (gorgeous!) and is redoing a lot of decoration in the other rooms, too. For the first time, she has an office on the first floor (with sunlight!) instead of a dungeon in the basement. Her sister Carol, a professional painter, is helping with the decoration. With a great deal of glee, Pat showed me an especially nice touch in the walk in closet. Carol had used trompe l'oeil painting to turn the closet into the interior of the wardrobe that leads into Narnia. On one wall is painted four fur coats, with boots near the floor. On the opposite corner, you see the snowy Narnian landscape. When you turn out the overhead light, the light from the lamp post glows in the dark.
Pat kindly gave me a new hardcover of Sorcery & Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot (that's the short title), signed and everything.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
1crowdedhour, could we get together on a Friday night soon, maybe to write in a coffeeshop or something, so you can sign it, too?
*Happy sigh.* A lovely evening.
Cheers,
Peg
Lois has just gotten back from New Zealand and felt rather fried. "I had two Wednesdays this week," she said. She was invited to be the Guest of Honor at a convention there, and well, since she was in New Zealand anyway, she decided to take a bus tour ("so I wouldn't have to worry about driving on the left side of the road"). She had brought back a lot of post cards that she showed me, including a number from the stop she'd made at the Hobbiton site. She got to actually enter to the door of Bag End and look out the window at the party field. I was soooo jealous. "It looks a bit forlorn now, because they've let everything go back to the wild," she said, "as if all the hobbits had left because of the close of the Fourth Age." Now that she's back in town, she will start going through the galleys for Paladin of Souls, the sequel to The Curse of Chalion. This one's told from Ista's point of view. Lois forgot to bring the cover flat along to show me, but she assured me that it's gorgeous. The plan is after that to write another book in the Chalion universe, this one set in the equivilent of medieval Germany. "I blame one of the books that Pat lent me, on mad German princes, for getting me started."
After dinner, Pat invited me back to see her new house. It's still full of partially unpacked boxes (and the partially unpacked boxes are full of exploring cats), but the house is taking shape quite nicely. She had expanded and totally redone the kitchen (gorgeous!) and is redoing a lot of decoration in the other rooms, too. For the first time, she has an office on the first floor (with sunlight!) instead of a dungeon in the basement. Her sister Carol, a professional painter, is helping with the decoration. With a great deal of glee, Pat showed me an especially nice touch in the walk in closet. Carol had used trompe l'oeil painting to turn the closet into the interior of the wardrobe that leads into Narnia. On one wall is painted four fur coats, with boots near the floor. On the opposite corner, you see the snowy Narnian landscape. When you turn out the overhead light, the light from the lamp post glows in the dark.
Pat kindly gave me a new hardcover of Sorcery & Cecelia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot (that's the short title), signed and everything.
1crowdedhour, could we get together on a Friday night soon, maybe to write in a coffeeshop or something, so you can sign it, too?*Happy sigh.* A lovely evening.
Cheers,
Peg
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Date: 2003-04-25 09:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-04-25 11:12 pm (UTC)coffee
Date: 2003-04-26 06:06 am (UTC)Caroline
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Date: 2003-04-26 07:45 am (UTC)Okay, not really, but am terribly jealous. *fangirls*
BTW, are you going to be at GenCon this year, maybe? I know Kij has gone in the past years, as I've attended her writing seminars.
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Date: 2003-04-26 08:16 am (UTC)Peg
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Date: 2003-04-26 07:20 pm (UTC)It also reminds me of my button that says, "Joel Rosenberg doesn't have to sleep with me," which I ought to dig out before next Minicon.
It's all just guys doin' stuff, but I'd probably turn into fangirl if I got within one link of Molly Ivins.
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Date: 2003-04-27 10:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-04-28 10:53 am (UTC)