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Hi all --

I have just today finished the first draft of a new Penric & Desdemona novella, to be titled "Testimony of Mute Things". Final edit still to go, but we were beforehand with the cover -- sneak peek below. I think artist Ron Miller did a bang-up job this round. (Ron's website: https://www.black-cat-studios.com/ )

This one is a prequel, falling between "Penric's Fox" and "Masquerade in Lodi" during Pen's Martensbridge years. The seed was that throw-away line toward the end of "Maquerade in Lodi", where Duke Jurgo's secretary Stobrek is greeting Pen effusively with "[We met] at that extraordinary Temple conclave in Carpagamo."

This has dangled off Pen's timeline as an empty box labeled "Insert Story Here" for years. (Indeed, it's working title was the alliterative "Conclave in Carpagamo" till about half through, when a better one arose out of the material.) I very much wanted to write this before I got too far from younger Penric to recall him. Finally this July a sufficient notion for going on with appeared, and we were off.




E-publication projected to be in mid to late October, depending as usual on a lot of currently unsettled factors. (So many revision passes, ugh...)

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on September, 20

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