Today they banned my book. It was not the first. It won’t be the last. Here’s what I want you to
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thebloggess_feedso, i am having a little bit of a stand by me moment
Mar. 25th, 2026 09:55 pmwwdn_feedThere’s a lot happening in my world right now, joy and sorrow, and I don’t have the spoons to write about it. But I’m having a Stand By Me moment that I wanted to share before it passes.
Yesterday, my narration of The Body by Stephen King (the novella that was adapted into Stand By Me) was released. I have wanted to do this for years, and I can’t believe I never wrote about it here. I’ll address that in the future, because it’s a cool story. Simon and Schuster, the publisher, has been super supportive and enthusiastic about this release. They gave me a whole chapter to share, and it’s at the end of this week’s1 It’s Storytime With Wil Wheaton, available now wherever you get your podcasts.
Today, I am the subject of a truly wonderful column in the New York Times that includes interactive clips from my narration, scenes from Stand By Me, and the text of the novella. It’s a beautiful piece that genuinely surprised and delighted me. And it comes just a few days after we were the subject of this incredible essay, also in the New York Times, about our Stand By Me Live tour2.
Tonight, Jerry and Corey and I are together on Entertainment Tonight3 to talk about the movie’s theatrical re-release, which starts on Friday.
I’m glad you’re here. If you’d like to get my posts delivered to your inbox, here’s the thingy:
- I had to take last week off, so we are replaying one of my favorite performances, End of Play.
︎ - This weekend, we are in Anaheim Friday, Seattle on Saturday (see you at No Kings, Seattle), and Portland on Sunday. Tickets are still available for all three shows. ︎
- In Los Angeles, that’s 7:30pm on CBS, check your local listing to be sure. ︎
upcoming Bujold appearances
Mar. 20th, 2026 01:06 pmlois_mcmaster_bujold_feedI will be a local writer guest/panelist at this year's Minicon 59 here in Minneapolis, April 2 - 5. Writer GoH is Patricia C. Wrede!
https://mnstf.org/minicon59/
for further information of all kinds.
On Saturday May 16th at 1 PM, I am going to be doing a signing at Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, also here in Minneapolis.
http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...
Mostly in honor of the 4th Penric collection in hardcover from Baen Books, Penric's Intrigues, which will be released the first week of May. My box of author's copies arrived from the printer yesterday, and they look great!
Meanwhile, the Subterranean Press signed limited edition of the Pen & Des novella "The Adventure of the Demonic Ox" is delayed at their printer, which is not an uncommon glitch for them. It is available for pre-order at SubPress -- https://subterraneanpress.com/bujold-... -- and also at Uncle Hugo's and Dreamhaven bookstores, here in MPLS.
(In a complete side note of idle curiosity, does anyone have any idea why I've been getting such a spate of likes for my first review of The Rivers of London this past week or so? It's normal to get a trickle of likes for my assorted old reviews, but not so many at once.)
Ta, L.
posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 20
Some slightly terrifying and exciting news that I thought was a practical joke at first.
Mar. 19th, 2026 09:49 pmthebloggess_feed
Performing some traffic maintenance today
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dw_maintenanceHappy Saturday!
I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!
If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.
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