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Dear Friends of Liad.

Steve and I are pleased to announce that we will be serializing Liaden Universe(R) novel Fledgling on the web starting January 22, 2007. This novel is so new that it hasn't even been written yet.

For those who have read I Dare, this will be the story of Theo Waitley, who had a "kind of complicated" problem to lay before the delm of Korval.

More information about the project can be found here

Thanks for listening.

Sharon and Steve

Date: 2006-12-01 08:44 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-12-01 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damara.livejournal.com
Whoo hoo!!!!

Although ... will we be able to get a book copy eventually too?

Date: 2006-12-01 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalimeg.livejournal.com
I hope it works out --

_Fledgling_ was also the title of Octavia Butler's final book, the one that has not reached paperback.

Must be something fascinating about baby birds.

Date: 2006-12-01 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orlacarey.livejournal.com
Yayayayayay. :)

Now I know where I'll be spending part of my time/money every week.

Date: 2006-12-01 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com
It's always nice to have one's suspicions confirmed.

I'm very much looking forward to reading along (and hopefully getting a trade paperback eventually).

Date: 2006-12-01 08:59 pm (UTC)
elbales: (Girl Reading-Perugini)
From: [personal profile] elbales
WOOT!

Thank you. Wah. So pleased. I hope you do eventually release the book in printed form. I'd buy it.

This reminds me of the way Cory Doctorow publishes his work: first in serial form on the web, then in printed form--and people buy the hard copy in droves.

Date: 2006-12-01 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] debmats.livejournal.com
Yeeeha!!!!!!!

this is debbie doing the snoopy dance. =)

*froth*

Date: 2006-12-01 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bonkabonka.livejournal.com
Just so you know, that single bit of news has turned an otherwise crummy week into one that is not nearly so lousy. I am unutterably pleased by your announcement!

*bounces around*

*looks about guiltily*

*bounces more gently so as not to rock the cube walls*

Date: 2006-12-01 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] orlacarey.livejournal.com
Okay, I must really be a geek - I just updated the Wikipedia article with the information on Allies and the link to this new project.

Date: 2006-12-02 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com
Wikipedia... Sigh, I'm so old fashioned I never thought of that.

Cool on you...
now if we can get people to take the news to Baen's Bar and other places where folks have admitted they read us... LMB list? And I'll have to work over some press releases to ship out to Locus and stuff I guess...

Thanks for helping us think!

Date: 2006-12-02 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] od-mind.livejournal.com
I posted it to rec.arts.sf.written, for the horribly antiquated like me who still read at least one Usenet group.

Date: 2006-12-02 02:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rolanni.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2006-12-02 02:17 am (UTC)
spiritdancer: (Default)
From: [personal profile] spiritdancer
No one else beat me to it, so I posted it to the Bar (in Authors, where I've seen your stuff discussed previously). I'm not currently on the LMB list, or I'd forward it there, too :-)

Date: 2006-12-01 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klingonguy.livejournal.com
Hooray!

Will you be serializing it in SL too?

Date: 2006-12-02 12:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarker.livejournal.com
I have this utterly amazing image of a little avatar wielding a quill pen, pacing madly about, then dashing off a few more lines . . .

What does serializing in SL mean? I suppose they could set out the bowl more easily there. And the head tilted to one side, winking, waiting for the coin to drop would be a whole lot easier to do :-)

Date: 2006-12-02 12:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com
Much will depend....

I'm looking for a solution other than note cards. We may end up simply giving away "books" with URL-links to the Fledgling location...

First, we got to start on the web-stuff for most people before we get to the more limited audience of SL stuff.

Date: 2006-12-01 10:44 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-12-01 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sleary.livejournal.com
*shriek of joy*

Oh dear, I probably shouldn't have done that at work...

Date: 2006-12-01 11:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schulman.livejournal.com
Hurray!

I rejoice.

Fledgling

Date: 2006-12-02 12:23 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I too find this a happy finale to a really awful week. Yea!!

Kelly
TC, CA

Date: 2006-12-02 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morgie.livejournal.com
Yes! The one story I've been wanting to see, especially with that kind of intro at the end of I Dare!

*geeks out*

Ahem. Thankyouthankyouthankyou!

Date: 2006-12-02 12:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mbarker.livejournal.com
Wonderful news! Although five and a half hours seems slightly long for a cup of coffee and a bit of handwaving, it's a lot faster than some pauses in the publishing industry have been.

I've always had a sneaking suspicion about mutations in the field of cultural genetics, myself, but now maybe I can find out what really happened.
Thanks!

Date: 2006-12-02 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenmaggie.livejournal.com
Whoot! thank you thank you thank you!
I can't wait to find out more about Theo

Date: 2006-12-02 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com
Woohoo! I'm in favour of the "patronage of the arts" model, it seems to work well where I've seen it (and gives those of us who are less creative in that way a way of participating, if I can't write a novel I can at least help sponsor someone who can -- and you get all of the money not just the royalties).

One question which wasn't in your can's and can'ts -- am I allowed to print out chapters for my own reading? If you say not (as some authors do) then I won't do it, but I do prefer to have bits of dead tree which I can read in bed rather than electrons which I can't (I'm a geek, but not enough of one that I have a screen by my bed!).

Date: 2006-12-02 01:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rolanni.livejournal.com
One question which wasn't in your can's and can'ts -- am I allowed to print out chapters for my own reading?

Oh, good question -- and one we hadn't thought of.

Let me talk to Steve and we'll get an answer here and on the info page. Might be a leetle slow -- I've got a 52 hour week on the phones coming up, starting tomorrow, and all things bow before sleep :-)

Date: 2006-12-02 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rolanni.livejournal.com
...and I've spoken to Steve (handy, him being in the next office). He says, "What you do in the privacy of your own bedroom is cool by us."

Seriously, printing it off for your own ease of reading is perfectly fine.

Date: 2006-12-02 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cailleuch.livejournal.com
Oh good! I read on the screen or on my palm if I must, but much prefer the paper form so that I can sit with it in comfort.

Date: 2006-12-02 12:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com
Thanks! Especially for the fast response. I'll look forward to reading the new book...

Date: 2006-12-02 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] origamilady.livejournal.com
Whoot!! :)

This news seriously rocks! :-)
*bounce*

Date: 2006-12-02 05:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Woohoo!!! Say, dDid you get the idea from Diane Duane's own experiment earlier this year? I know, I know, Stephen King had done something like this long ago.

One more thing... Would it be inappropriate for me to mention this on other sites?

Date: 2006-12-02 12:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kinzel.livejournal.com
Ummm ... well, no, we didn't know Diane Duane was doing this -- as we mention on the Fledgling page we were more thinking about the Storyteller's Bowl, LWE, and about Sharon Lee's own experiment in online storytelling back in the year 2000... ten years after we were part of the very first (and more experimental than we knew) eBook wave.

By the way, Mr. King, I think, was hoping for far more than he got... didn't I read that "The Plant" only took in on the order of $200,000 in the first several months? That would probably serialize our next 3 books and help us move to Old Orchard Beach to boot...

And so yes, please do share. Since Rolanni is doing LL Bean for the Christmas Season I'll be doing this one-handed from this side, including putting together some press releases and webwork on this and the upcoming Liaden Universe Companion Volume 2 (due out around August 10, 2007 with a potential break-out at NASFIC)... so reasonable mentions will help since I can't be everywhere.

....Kinzel

Date: 2006-12-02 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Thanks. There's this F/SF site where I post frequently and where there will be no objections to my mentionning your project. I'll do that on Monday, when there are more people around.

Just doing my bit to help you move to Old Orchard Beach...

Hurrah!

Date: 2006-12-02 06:02 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Someone posted a note about this on rec.arts.sf.written - and I'd have hollered out loud except it would have scared the neighbors!

I'm looking forward to reading this!

Mary

Date: 2006-12-02 08:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vierran45.livejournal.com
Yay! Great news!

Date: 2006-12-02 07:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angela-n-hunt.livejournal.com
OMG, this makes me so happy, I can hardly tell you.

Yay!!!

I'd give you money *right now* if I could. In the meantime, consider the word spread at least on this end of the world.

New Liaden Book

Date: 2006-12-02 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Yessss!

I can now breathe again.

Will the burning question of her parentage be answered? Is she biologically Daav's daughter by his mistress, by someone else, or is she adopted or the daughter of the mistress? Us heredity freaks yearn to know!

Joan C

Oh you teases.

Date: 2006-12-02 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
You mean, I have to wait two whole months before the first chapter? And then more time till the one after that?
*whimper*
That's gonna be slow compared to reading seven novels in three days...

Seriously, though, you've made my month! I'm telling everyone I got hooked on the Liaden books.

Yaaay :)

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