Liaden Universe® InfoDump #59

Happy Valentine's Day from Clan Korval and Baen Books

The first five novels in the Agent of Change story arc will be available electronically from Baen Books on Wednesday, February 14, because, as editor Toni Weiskopff says, "...we love you guys."

Check the Webscriptions site for more information.

Fledgling Takes Off

The first three chapters are Fledgling are now online

But that's not all! Reader donations thus far have insured that chapters will keep coming weekly (except when the Authors' Traveling Rule is in force) through the end of June!

Sam Chupp of Fireheart Foundry is doing a concurrent podcast of each chapter -- check them out!

Thanks to everyone who has had faith in us -- and in the story -- and please share the sites with interested friends.


Liaden Universe® Companion, Volume Two

Advance subscriptions are now being taking for Liaden Universe® Companion, Volume Two, scheduled for an August release from SRM Publisher, Ltd.

This project will collect Changeling, Phoenix, Heirloom, Naratha's Shadow, Veil of the Dancer, Quiet Knives, This House, Lord of the Dance, Sweet Waters... in one full-size hardcover/trade paper volume.

However, the success of the project depends on you -- yes, you! Pre-subscribers will not only get their books signed, but they will have the warm, fuzzy feeling of knowing that they have contributed to the publication of this volume, and that it would not have happened without them.

See the SRM catalog page for more information.


Independent Bookstore Needs Your Help!

In the beginning of 2006, Pandemonium Books moved from its (cramped-but-cool) location in Harvard Square (Boston) to Brand!New!Spacious! Quarters in Central Square, Cambridge. The move, as moves often do, took longer and was more expensive than forecast, and now, nine months after the new store's Grand Opening, Pandemonium is in trouble, with its debt load and back taxes placing it in double jeopardy.

In order to try to reduce its debt -- and pay off those back taxes! -- Pandemonium is offering supporters the chance to buy a t-shirt of month. If you don't wear t-shirts, or just don't want one, the store is also gratefully accepting donations via PayPal. Full details are here

Pandemonium Books and Games is one of a dwindling breed of independent SF bookstores. We'd hate to see them close, and not just because of their endangered species" credentials. OK, let's face it, we'd hate to see them close for some purely selfish reasons. Over the years we've been made very welcome there by Tyler, Phil, Julia, Spike, Ruth and other staff members as well as by an active community of readers. Pandemonium's crew helped us through some slim times in the past by taking us out to dinner after a signing ... and they've also taken us out to dinner, breakfast and lunch -- and supplied is with rides in and around Boston for a number of signings, just because they could. They went out of their way to carry our books and chapbooks at a time when Lee & Miller were not the household names we are today.... This is not just another bookstore, folks -- they value writers and they love books. So, here's your chance to help Pandemonium break out! Please consider lending them a little support.

Thanks!


The Tomorrow Log Mass Market Available for Purchase

That's right! The Tomorrow Log, Meisha Merlin's first foray into the realm of mass market paperbacks, is now for sale at your favorite independent, brick-n-mortar and online bookstores!


See You in Beantown

Sharon and Steve will be attending Boskone, Friday February 16 through Monday February 19, and you can take a look at their complete schedule


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Surprise, Surprise

So far, it's been a day for surprises.

Like the fact that today's haircut is really short. Looks good, just -- surprise! Gonna definitely have to get me a Mad Bomber hat

Another surprise -- The Tomorrow Log mass market is out! Not only that, but it's been available for weeks! Who knew?

And yet a third surprise, as I'm sitting down to write the next chapter of Fledgling -- the thing that is demanding to be written Right Now is a chunk of Deep Background, and not the next-scene-in-sequence. There's no help for it -- spelunking we will go...

...see you on the flipside.