Books read in 2022

64   Urn Burial, Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher #8)
63   All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Murderbot #1) (e) (re-read)
62   The Case of the Missing Marquis, Nancy Springer (Enola Holmes #1)(e)
61   Lady Violet Investigates, Grace Burrowes, (Lady Violet #1) (e)
60   The Siren Depths, Martha Wells, (Raksura #3) (e)
59  Mixed Marriage, Elizabeth Cadell (e)
58   The Serpent Sea, Martha Wells (Raksura #2) (e)
57  The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells (Raksura #1) (e)
56   Soul Taken, Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson #13) (e)
55   Ruby Fever, Ilona Andrews (Hidden Legacy #6) (e)
54   Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny, Rebekah Weatherspoon (e)
53   The Wind Off the Small Isles, and The Lost One, Mary Stewart (e)
52   A Natural History of Dragons, Marie Brennan (Lady Trent's Memoirs #1) (e)
51   The Girl With No Face, M.H. Boronson (Daoshi Chronicles #2) (e)
50   A Gentleman's Position, KJ Charles (Society of Gentlemen #3) (e) **
49   A Fashionable Indulgence, KJ Charles (Society of Gentlemen #1) (e)
48   A Little Too Familiar, Lish McBride (e)
47   The Wonder Engine, T. Kingfisher (Clocktaur War #2) (e)
46   Clockwork Boys, T. Kingfisher (Clocktaur War #1) (e)
45   Peter Cabot Gets Lost, Kat Sebastian (The Cabots #1) (e)
44   Thornyhold, Mary Stewart (re-read) (e)
43   The Missing Page, Kat Sebastian (Page and Sommers #2) (e)
42   Stormy Petrel, Mary Stewart (e)
41   Hither, Page, Kat Sebastian (Page and Sommers #1) (e)
40   A Delicate Deception, Kat Sebastian (The Regency Imposters #3*) (e)
39   A Duke in Disguise, Kat Sebastian (The Regency Imposters #2*) (e)
38   The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, Axie Oh (e)
37   The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison (The Cemeteries of Amalo #2)
36   Sweep of the Blade, Ilona Andrews (Inkeeper #4) (e)
35   The Rat-catcher's Daughter, KJ Charles (Lilywhite Boys 0.5) (e)
34   Gilded Cage, KJ Charles (Lilywhite Boys #2) (e)
33  When the King Comes Home, Caroline Stevermer (e)
32  Touch Not the Cat, Mary Stewart (re-read) (e)
31  Miss Moriarty, I Presume ( Lady Sherlock Book 6) Sherry Thomas (e)
30  New Tales of Space and Time, ed. Raymond J. Healy (re-read)
29  Trust Me on This, Jennifer Crusie (re-read)
28  Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Sue Lynn Tan (Celestial Kingdom #1) (e)
27  Summer in Orcus, T. Kingfisher (e)
26  A Gentleman Undone, Cecelia Grant (Blackshear Family #2) (e)
25  A Lady Awakened, Cecelia Grant (Blackshear Family #1) (e)
24  Nettle and Bone, T. Kingfisher (e)
23  Shadow of the Swan, Nicola M. Cameron (Hidden Empire #1) (e)
22  Amongst Our Weapons, Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London #9) (e)
21  To My Muse, Nicola M. Cameron (e)
20  Unfit to Print, KJ Charles (e)
19  When Blood Lies, C.S. Harris (Sebastian St. Cyr #17)
18  The Last Revival of Opal and Nev, Dawnie Walton (e)
17  Bruno, Chief of Police: A Mystery of the French Countryside, Martin Walker (Bruno, Chief of Police #1) (e)
16  Spellswept, Stephanie Burgis (The Harwood Spellbook #2) (e)
15  Last Guard, Nalini Singh (Psy-Changeling Trinity #5) (re-read aloud w/Steve)
14  Dragonsbane, Barbara Hambly (Winterlands #1) (e)
13  Naked Once More, Elizabeth Peters (Jacqueline Kirby #4) (e)
12  The Pride of Chanur, CJ Cherryh (Chanur #1) (e) (re-read)
11  Written in Red, Anne Bishop (The Others #1)(re-read)
10  Shadow Scale, Rachel Hartman (Seraphina #2) (e)
9   Seraphina, Rachel Hartman (Seraphina #1) (e)
8   Grave Reservations, Cherie Priest (Booking Agents Series #1) (e)
7   Gothel and the Maiden Prince, W.R. Gingell (e)
6   A Gathering of Gargoyles, Meredith Ann Pierce (Darkangel #2)
5   Crystal Lattice, Paul Aurelius (The Crystal Cities #1) (pre-pub provided by the author) (e)
4   The 5th Gender, G.L. Carriger (A Tinkered Stars Mystery) (e)
3   Magic Lessons, Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic #1 or #3, depending) (e)
2   Snowspelled, Stephanie Burgis (The Harwood Spellbook #1) (e)
1   Widdershins, Jordan L. Hawk (Whyborn and Griffin #1) (e)

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* The Regency Imposters #1 is Unmasked by the Marquis, which I read backaways
**Yes, I know there's a #2, but I started it and put it down.  Not my cuppa, though it may well be yours.

News from the metaverse

"Eight Mile and the City," by Steven Harper, published in When Worlds Collide, Zombies Need Brains LLC (2021), won the 2022 WSFA Small Press Award, presented last evening at CapClave.

Congratulations to Steven and to ZNB's publisher Joshua Palmatier.  You may read the rest of the complete awards story at File770

Here at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory, we continue to live the halcyon lives of working writers.  Steve continues to spar with Jethri, while I run interference between the Master Trader's trade team and The Redlands.  Also on-going is packing up some of our so-called "papers" for shipment to the Lee-and-Miller archive at Northern Illinois University.

We also need to start thinking about our story for Solar Flare, due to editor Joshua Palmatier in December.

Last week was slightly interrupted by medical concerns, involving blood panels, xrays, and various whatnot in order to give the doctors their Data.  Data now mostly in, it seems that things are in basically good shape, but a visit with the cardiologist is upcoming in order to file off the rough edges.

What with One Thing and Something Else, we realized that Pinbeam Books (the Lee-Miller indie publishing arm) hasn't put out even one chapbook in 2022 (the energy that would have gone into a chapbook or even two went instead into surprise book, Salvage Right, coming to a bookstore near you in 2023).

However!  We do intend to publish a Yule Chapbook this year -- Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 35: TITLE TBA.  This chapbook will contain two reprints:  WSFA Small Press Award Finalist "Standing Orders," and "From Every Storm a Rainbow," which appeared on Baen.com December 2021 - January 2022; and! one never-published work concerning the life and times of Lomar Fasholt, who has been missing for some time, to the great concern of her friends.

More news on that project as we move forward.

Those who indulge may purchase the eARC of Chicks in Tank Tops from Baen Books.  Or!  You may preorder it from the bookstore of your choice for a January delivery.

. . . and I think that's all the news for right now.

Everybody stay safe.