Liaden Universe(R) InfoDump Number 48
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Dragon*Con REPORT
Liaden Universe(R) authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller attended Atlanta's Dragon*Con over the Labor Day holiday and came away with several copies of their own Liaden Universe® Companion as well as with great memories. Between wandering, signings, readings, lunch, breakfast, and dinner the duo shared time with writing colleagues Anne and Todd McCaffrey, Peter Beagle, John Ringo, Janny Wurts, Josepha Sherman, Janna Oliver, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, Selina Rosen, Melanie Fletcher, Jody Lynn Nye, and assorted other luminaries of the publishing field.
At the convention, Meisha Merlin's publisher and editor Stephe Pagel asked the authors to remind Liaden fans that pre-orders for the February signed hard-back edition of _Crystal Dragon_ are still being taken at the website http://www.meishamerlin.com with only the first 750 being available for signing...
Speaking of signing, the authors enjoyed multiple convention and dealer signings at Dragon*Con; Glennis at The Missing Volume (http://www.themissingvolume.com/ ) featured Lee and Miller for more than four hours over the course of the weekend!
Though New Orleans and Katrina were not out of mind during the convention, other news also came to the fore, including Peter Beagle's difficult situation:
http://www.conlanpress.com/youcanhelp/index.html
While Lee and Miller were on the East Coast for Dragon*Con, their friend, colleague, and current SFWA President Robin Wayne Bailey was in Seattle attending NASFIC -- also known as ConCascadia -- where he accepted the Hal Clement Award for Best YA Science Fiction Novel of 2004 for Lee and Miller's _Balance of Trade_.
ART
Also while the authors were on the road, Thomas Peters, the cover artist for Liaden Universe Companion, Volume One, began offering full-color poster-sized prints of the wonderfully detailed cover art for sale. You can order direct from Tom, a low-resolution image and ordering information is online at: http://tpeters.com/
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND COMING ATTRACTIONS
September 1 saw the publication of Liaden Universe Companion from SRM Publisher -- http://www.korval.com/srmcat2.htm -- as well as the announcement of Necessary Evils, the Liaden Universe® Yule chapbook for 2005, with information at the same site.
Also out September 1 from Embiid -- http://www.embiid.net -- is the electronic version of _Quiet Knives_ which joined the recently released _With Stars Underfoot_; Embiid will also be publishing the electronic edition of Liaden novel _Crystal Dragon_, come October.
On return from Dragon*Con the authors updated their Coming Attractions page at
http://www.korval.com/coming05.htm to reflect more current info, and also updated the printable order form.
DATES TO REMEMBER
September 1: _Quiet Knives_ electronic edition from Embiid (http://www.embiid.net)
September 20: _Liaden Universe(R) Companion, Volume One_ *soft cover* begins shipping from SRM
October 1: Crystal Dragon electronic edition from Embiid
October 1: Begin reading _A Night in Lonesome October_
October 15: _Sword of Orion_ in bookstores
October 30: _Liaden Universe(R) Companion, Volume One_ *hard cover* begins shipping from SRM
November 15: Cut off date for pre-orders of signed hardcover edition of _Crystal Dragon_ from Meisha Merlin
November 27: _Necessary Evils_ ships from SRM
January 20-22, 2006: Lee and Miller Author Guests of Honor at COsine, Colorado Springs, CO (http://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/index.html)
February 17-19, 2006: Lee and Miller will be attending Boskone, Boston, MA (http://www.boskone.org)
April 21-23: Lee and Miller Author Guests of Honor at Penguicon, Novi, MI (http://www.penguicon.org)
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE
At Dragon*Con, the authors were asked for a list of genre bookstores that did mail order. We didn't have all of the information at the convention, but we now provide the following list of independent genre bookstores known to carry Lee and Miller's work. They will happily do mail order, and most will do searches.
Borderlands http://www.borderlands-books.com/, 866 Valencia Street, San Francisco CA 94110; 415.824.8203; toll-free 888.893.4008; webmail@borderlands-books.com
Childrens Book Cellar, 52 Main Street, Waterville Maine 04901; 207-872-4543; kidsbookscellar@verizon.net
Mysterious Galaxy, http://mysteriousgalaxy.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Suite #302, San Diego CA 92111; 858.268.4747; mgbooks@mystgalaxy.com
The Other Change of Hobbit, http://www.otherchangeofhobbit.com/ 2020 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704-1117; 510.848.0413; ochobbit@otherchangeofhobbit.com
Pandemonium Books and Games, http://www.pandemoniumbooks.com/ 36 JFK St., Cambridge MA 02138; 617.547.3721; general@pandemoniumbooks.com
Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, http://www.unclehugo.com 2864 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55407; 612.824.6347; unclehugo@aol.com
AND, FOR THOSE WHO BUY AT CONS...
...please remember to stop by
Genre, Ink
Zane Meader
The Missing Volume
Larry Smith, Bookseller
DISCLAIMER STUFF
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Dragon*Con REPORT
Liaden Universe(R) authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller attended Atlanta's Dragon*Con over the Labor Day holiday and came away with several copies of their own Liaden Universe® Companion as well as with great memories. Between wandering, signings, readings, lunch, breakfast, and dinner the duo shared time with writing colleagues Anne and Todd McCaffrey, Peter Beagle, John Ringo, Janny Wurts, Josepha Sherman, Janna Oliver, Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta, Selina Rosen, Melanie Fletcher, Jody Lynn Nye, and assorted other luminaries of the publishing field.
At the convention, Meisha Merlin's publisher and editor Stephe Pagel asked the authors to remind Liaden fans that pre-orders for the February signed hard-back edition of _Crystal Dragon_ are still being taken at the website http://www.meishamerlin.com with only the first 750 being available for signing...
Speaking of signing, the authors enjoyed multiple convention and dealer signings at Dragon*Con; Glennis at The Missing Volume (http://www.themissingvolume.com/ ) featured Lee and Miller for more than four hours over the course of the weekend!
Though New Orleans and Katrina were not out of mind during the convention, other news also came to the fore, including Peter Beagle's difficult situation:
http://www.conlanpress.com/youcanhelp/index.html
While Lee and Miller were on the East Coast for Dragon*Con, their friend, colleague, and current SFWA President Robin Wayne Bailey was in Seattle attending NASFIC -- also known as ConCascadia -- where he accepted the Hal Clement Award for Best YA Science Fiction Novel of 2004 for Lee and Miller's _Balance of Trade_.
ART
Also while the authors were on the road, Thomas Peters, the cover artist for Liaden Universe Companion, Volume One, began offering full-color poster-sized prints of the wonderfully detailed cover art for sale. You can order direct from Tom, a low-resolution image and ordering information is online at: http://tpeters.com/
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND COMING ATTRACTIONS
September 1 saw the publication of Liaden Universe Companion from SRM Publisher -- http://www.korval.com/srmcat2.htm -- as well as the announcement of Necessary Evils, the Liaden Universe® Yule chapbook for 2005, with information at the same site.
Also out September 1 from Embiid -- http://www.embiid.net -- is the electronic version of _Quiet Knives_ which joined the recently released _With Stars Underfoot_; Embiid will also be publishing the electronic edition of Liaden novel _Crystal Dragon_, come October.
On return from Dragon*Con the authors updated their Coming Attractions page at
http://www.korval.com/coming05.htm to reflect more current info, and also updated the printable order form.
DATES TO REMEMBER
September 1: _Quiet Knives_ electronic edition from Embiid (http://www.embiid.net)
September 20: _Liaden Universe(R) Companion, Volume One_ *soft cover* begins shipping from SRM
October 1: Crystal Dragon electronic edition from Embiid
October 1: Begin reading _A Night in Lonesome October_
October 15: _Sword of Orion_ in bookstores
October 30: _Liaden Universe(R) Companion, Volume One_ *hard cover* begins shipping from SRM
November 15: Cut off date for pre-orders of signed hardcover edition of _Crystal Dragon_ from Meisha Merlin
November 27: _Necessary Evils_ ships from SRM
January 20-22, 2006: Lee and Miller Author Guests of Honor at COsine, Colorado Springs, CO (http://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/index.html)
February 17-19, 2006: Lee and Miller will be attending Boskone, Boston, MA (http://www.boskone.org)
April 21-23: Lee and Miller Author Guests of Honor at Penguicon, Novi, MI (http://www.penguicon.org)
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE
At Dragon*Con, the authors were asked for a list of genre bookstores that did mail order. We didn't have all of the information at the convention, but we now provide the following list of independent genre bookstores known to carry Lee and Miller's work. They will happily do mail order, and most will do searches.
Borderlands http://www.borderlands-books.com/, 866 Valencia Street, San Francisco CA 94110; 415.824.8203; toll-free 888.893.4008; webmail@borderlands-books.com
Childrens Book Cellar, 52 Main Street, Waterville Maine 04901; 207-872-4543; kidsbookscellar@verizon.net
Mysterious Galaxy, http://mysteriousgalaxy.booksense.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp, 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Suite #302, San Diego CA 92111; 858.268.4747; mgbooks@mystgalaxy.com
The Other Change of Hobbit, http://www.otherchangeofhobbit.com/ 2020 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704-1117; 510.848.0413; ochobbit@otherchangeofhobbit.com
Pandemonium Books and Games, http://www.pandemoniumbooks.com/ 36 JFK St., Cambridge MA 02138; 617.547.3721; general@pandemoniumbooks.com
Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, http://www.unclehugo.com 2864 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55407; 612.824.6347; unclehugo@aol.com
AND, FOR THOSE WHO BUY AT CONS...
...please remember to stop by
Genre, Ink
Zane Meader
The Missing Volume
Larry Smith, Bookseller
DISCLAIMER STUFF
This InfoDump is a product of the Liaden Universe(R), accept no imitations. You have received this message because you asked for it. If you no longer wish to receive messages like this, you may unsubscribe from
http://www.fireopal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/liadenuniversenews
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Date: 2005-09-12 04:03 pm (UTC)It's about 75,000 words.
Ahem.
It's about a teenage girl whose parents were killed in the late war, and is living with her uncle, an insurance man. Our heroine is studying to be a spaceship mechanic, and has her life more-or-less All Planned Out. Alas, some folks who rather wish that the war had obtained a different outcome think that she might be able to assist them in their /n/e/f/a/r/i/o/u/s patriotic /s/c/h/e/m/e/s movement. Whether or not she's willing.