I’ve finally put together the video of Lois McMaster Bujold reading the opening scene of a new Miles Vorkosigan novella (from 5-Dec-2012; I said “finally”). It looks like the novella still hasn’t been published (perhaps it hasn’t even been finished).
It was an interesting experiment in one-person documentary making, and a useful practice piece for post-production (four cameras, one sound recorder).
That was the radioactive butterbugs novella, right?
As I understand it, it died of irreconcilable structural issues.
Yes, that’s the one. She said at the reading that she didn’t know where the story went for the next bit, so finally deciding that it didn’t in fact go anywhere seems like a possible outcome.