rolanni | Friday, August 17th, 2007

So, we've sold a Big Chunk o'Liaden Universe® stories to a publisher who wishes to list them in universe order in their catalog so that their buyers won't be confused by picking up something in the middle of a sequence (cue laugh track).

kinzel and I have put our poor aching heads together and come up with the following list-in-order, but we're not sure we've got it right. (Note to new authors: In your records, number the stories you write in a consistent universe, if any, so you don't have to go through these head-breakers when you've suddenly got 200,000 words of short stories placed. No, scratch that. Write the stories and have a blast. Worry about the silly paperwork when it arrives in the mail.)

Anyhow, the list is below. Stories marked with ** are anchors. Stories [bracketed] must stay together.

**Necessary Evils**
Naratha's Shadow
Where the Goddess Sends
Spell for the Lost
Wine of Memory
Balance of Trade
Sweet Waters
Phoenix
Pilot of Korval

[Choice of Weapons
Beggar King]

Heirloom
To Cut an Edge

[A Day at the Races
Certain Symmetry]

Veil of the Dancer

[A Matter of Dreams
Moonphase]

Changeling
Quiet Knives
Breath's Duty
Lord of the Dance
Prodigal Son
**King of the Cats**

If anyone spots any dire misplacements, please do let me know.

Thanks!

*Sigh* A word in the ear of any of y'all that file monthly 941 coupons for payroll. Check, double-check, triple-check, quadruple-check to make sure that payment amount written on the check and the payment amount written on the coupon match. If they don't match, there is a wasted day in your future, talking to the IRS on the phone four times in order to achieve four slightly different answers, and in going down to the bank in order to collect Paperwork Proving that You Did So Pay the Damn' Tax.

You will have to do this even if the check for the proper amount cleared, because, well...the coupon's the thing.

Gah.

As a way of decompressing, and with a tip of the hat to

jennifer_dunne, I lolcatted