Interview's up and Sharon, too

The interview Steve and I did with Ross Rojek of the Sacramento Book
Review on September 10 is now available at the i-Tunes Store and here.

It's about 40 minutes long. I think it's work safe...

Have fun.

Liaden Universe InfoDump Number 79

Yule Chapbook 2009 -- You've been asking about this
Adventures in the Liaden Universe® #16 is coming in November. This year's Yule chapbook will contain two new stories by Lee and Miller, "Moon on the Hills," and "Hidden Resources." The book itself will be titled Halfling Moon, and yes, both stories deal with Clan Korval, after Liad. Halfling Moon will be $11 (don't forget postage if you send a check) -- and you can pre-order it NOW through the SRM Publisher catalog website: srmpublisher.com.


Pre-Supporters of Fledgling Take Note!
Those who donated $25 or more toward the Fledgling online project and are therefore eligible to receive a thank-you book from the authors: we expect to have the first 600 books in the mail by October 1 -- and the rest will follow as soon after as possible. Books in the US are being shipped via media mail, which can take 7-10 days; so please be patient. We're also having to confirm some addresses by email and some even by *snail mail* since many of you have moved in the last two years and your new addresses haven't reached us. We are mailing as rapidly as we can, but are taking several days to do other essential SRM Publisher and Lee & Miller business (like MISFITS, see below, and writing introductions and the like for the upcoming Baen omnibus editions) so this may take
awhile.


Misfits
The paper format Liaden Universe® novella Misfits: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® #15 -- should be arriving at SRM Publisher's world headquarters for shipping by October 3. Given the space problems caused by having both Fledgling and Misfits mailing work going on at the same time we ask for patience if your book order does not arrive this week. If you have not ordered yet, they are available online, at our SRM catalog online and will soon be available from the regular genre outlets as well.


Lytaxin Irregulars Bookstore Update
The "street date" for Fledgling was September 8, and Theo is getting read everywhere -- everywhere, that is, except those places that haven't ordered a copy in. If your local Barnes and Noble doesn't have a copy, you can ask for it. In fact, please do: go to the customer information desk and request that Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, ISBN-10:1439132879/ISBN-13: 978-1439132876 be stocked.

That's all. You don't have to buy the book. All you have to do is request that it be stocked.

To those who choose to take up this bold challenge: We thank you most sincerely for your aid. We've seen photos of Fledgling in several different B&N stores, and we personally signed copies on a drive-by at our local store. It CAN happen. You can help!


Friends of Liad at NASFiC in 2010
Several dozen Friends of Liad found each other for breakfast at WorldCon in Montreal, and we met a few individually for dinner as time permitted, this despite the fact that there was no central place for Friends of Liad to meet -- no fan table, no Liaden Lounge, not even a publisher's table to act as a central news and meeting spot for FoL. Since Fledgling will be eligible for next year's Hugo Awards (in theory, anyway!) and both Fledgling and Saltation will be out, with Mouse and Dragon on the way -- and with potential dates and news for the reissue of the first 10 novels as well! -- we'd like to facilitate FoL events at ReConStruction (http://www.reconstructionsf.org/ ) if we can. In addition to the long-standing Friends of Liad mailing list we've now set up an address for people wanting to volunteer or share ideas with us directly about events for conventions (like NASFIC, Oasis, and DuckCon) that we'll be attending. That address is fol@korval.com ... and we'll see what we can do to get potential FoL events in gear.


Podcast Interview: Lee and Miller and the Sacremento Book Review
Realsoonnow (which is to say, "in September," which is SBR's Science Fiction Month) there will be an interview with Sharon and Steve online here: http://www.sacramentobookreview.com/audible_authors.php
and! a book review of Fledgling here: http://sacramentobookreview.com/book-reviews/

Edited to add: The interview is live as of September 28, 2009


Watch the Skies: New Ebay Auction
For those who have been following the fate of the contents of Sharon's file drawer, the ephemera associated with Agent of Change and with Conflict of Honors were auctioned off in July, and Carpe Diem went in August. Now, a shorter story rarity, as seen in Pulp House. many moons ago.

As a reminder, this is what will be on offer:

Candlelight
1. Original typescript, hand corrected by authors, dated July 1984
2. Submission typescript
3. Carbon copy of submission letter to Good Housekeeping
4. Several rejection letters (including Good Housekeeping)
5. Another copy, with hand-written revisions
6. Intent-to-publish letter from Pulphouse, signed by Dean Wesley Smith, receive date noted in Sharon's hand as October 1992


Other Travel News
Steve Miller and Sharon Lee will be literary Guests of Honor at the following upcoming science fiction and fantasy conventions:
Oasis 23, May 28 -- 30, 2010, Orlando, Florida ( http://oasfis.org/oasis/ )
DucKon 19, June 18 -- 20, 2010, Naperville, Illinois (http://www.duckon.org/)

Sharon and Steve will also be attending ReConStruction, the 10th Occasional North American Science Fiction Convention, August 5 -- 8, 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina (http://reconstructionsf.org/)


Support Your Local Bookstore
Uncle Hugo's: http://www.unclehugo.com/
University Bookstore: http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/services.taf?dept=about&category=loca
Pandemonium Books: http://www.pandemoniumbooks.com/
Missing Volume: http://www.themissingvolume.com/
Borderlands: http://www.borderlands-books.com/
Dream Haven: http://www.dreamhavenbooks.com/
Flights of Fantasy: http://www.fof.net/
Mysterious Galaxy: http://mysteriousgalaxy.booksense.com/
Constellation Books: http://www.constellationbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

All of the above folks do mail order and take want lists.


Blogs of Note
Theo_Waitley is the discussion group for readers of Fledgling and
Saltation: http://community.livejournal.com/theo_waitley/
Where Dragons Rest: http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_readers/
Steve Miller's blog, Journeyman: http://kinzel.livejournal.com/
Sharon Lee's blog, Eagles over the Kennebec: http://rolanni.livejournal.com/
SRM Publisher blog: http://srmpublisher.livejournal.com/
Sharon Lee's "Professional" blog, Look Up, the Stars are Dancing:
http://sharon-lee.dreamwidth.org/


Facebook Connections -- please feel free to add us!
http://facebook.com/kinzel -- Steve Miller
http://facebook.com/rolanni -- Sharon Lee

Liaden interest groups on FACEBOOK
Clan Korval: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38719490864&ref=ts
Friends of Liad: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=16280839259&ref=ts
Flaran chamenthi: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=2213414696&ref=ts

GoodReads
Sharon's Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57980.Sharon_Lee

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Monday...

...began with a bad dream. Steve and I were somehow attached to a band of Traveler-like folken, and it had been decided that we'd been in one area too long, and it was time to move on. My first intimation of this was when I arrived home from work to find everything out of the kitchen closets and my medicine already packed away. I then spent a fair amount of time trying to find out from various elders and persons-in-charge (1) where we were going (2) when we would get there (3) how much we could take, and (4) when I could have my drugs back. I kept being assured that I wouldn't be left behind ("We always take the children and the horses," I believe was the phrase), and we would arrive at the new place in the fullness of time. In the meanwhile, no, I absolutely could not unpack anything until we arrived; the argument that if I went three days without my meds Bad Things would happen falling on unconcerned ears.

The alarm went off about then, which was probably a mitzvah.

So! this evening's task: prep the papers associated with the story now known as "Candlelight" for Ebay.

Watch this space.

Eyes Please!

Anybody see anything that should be here, but isn't?  Anything confusing?  Speak quickly.  The plan is to have this up on Ebay this evening.
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Opening bid $25.

Unique science fiction items, in two nested folders, from the personal files of award-winning Liaden Universe® authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. This lot is for the paper associated with the writing of the short story "Candlelight," published in Pulphouse in 1995. Rare opportunity for collectors and fans!

The folders include:

1. At least five iterations of the short story under two different titles, and two by-lines, manuscripts dating back to 1984

2. A carbon copy of the original submission letter to Good Housekeeping, dated October 10, 1984

3. A form rejection from Good Housekeeping, undated. Form rejection from Redbook, undated. Handwritten rejection from Dennis Mallonee at Fantasy Book, dated 12 June 1985

4. Submission letter to Pulphouse, dated October 19, 1990

5. Acceptance letter from Kristine Kathryn Rusch, dated January 4, 1991

6. Undated typed note from Dean Wesley Smith detailing payment and projected publication date of "early 1992"

7. A letter from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller to Dean Wesley Smith dated May 8, 1994, inquiring re intent to publish

8. A piece of stenographer's paper bearing cryptic notes in Sharon's hand.

9. A letter from Dean Wesley Smith, dated 6/10/95 transmitting the page proofs

10. A letter signed by Sharon Lee to Dean Wesley Smith, dated June 23, 1995, transmitting the corrected pages via fax

11. A copy of Pulphouse, Issue 19, in which "Candlight" appeared. This was the last issue of Pulphouse

These papers have been kept in a file drawer for 25 years; there is some crumpling of the edges, and minor wrinkling; the carbon paper, and the newsprint on which the original draft was typed are especially fragile. Total actual weight is approximately 3 pounds; shipping weight will be higher.

You are bidding for the paper and only for the paper. The copyright to this work remains with the authors. Permission to publish is not granted in this sale, which you acknowledge by bidding.

Winning bidder pays postage (international rates will be determined at time of sale). The authors will sign the magazine, if the bidder desires.

Auction now live on Ebay!

The Candlelight auction has begun. It will run for 7 days at this location: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320429629288