Liaden Universe® InfoDump No. 67
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rolanniLiaden Universe® InfoDump #67: Full of Crunchy Goodness
In this Issue:
Still Partying After All These Years
Anniversaries, Part One
SRM Publisher News
Saltation Rule Change
Fledgling News
Ace Reissues
Baen Contracts for New Liaden Novel
Webscriptions to Publish Chapbook and Novel
Anniversaries, Part Two
Liaden Universe(R) Companion Volume One Available in MMP
Meet the Authors
Anniversaries, Part Three & Four
Blogs
Still Partying: Celebrating 20 Years of the Liaden Universe®
In February 1988 Agent of Change first hit the shelves mass market original from Del Rey Books. Conflict of Honors followed in June of the same year. And the rest is history!
No, wait. The rest is story, that's it....
Speaking of Anniversaries, Part One
This month marks the first anniversary of Steve's Mad Dash(tm) down to Meisha Merlin's Georgia headquarters to take some of our books as payment on royalties owed. We were told at that time that the remaining books were in danger of being pulped, and that Meisha Merlin would contact its authors if the books were able to be rescued. We have not been contacted by Meisha Merlin, though we are in receipt of several rumors. To the best of our knowledge, all of the Meisha Merlin books that had been in the warehouse have been destroyed. There may be some in bookstore or distributor warehouses, or in the inventories of booksellers.
SRM Publisher does have Meisha Merlin editions of Lee and Miller books available for sale. If you don't see what you need, please inquire at catalog9@korval.com
Queries and orders by snail-mail should go to this new address:
SRM Publisher, Ltd.
PO Box 707
Waterville Maine 04903-0707
Speaking of SRM Publisher
Please visit the spiffy new online catalog at http://www.srmpublisher.com. SRM has done a top-to-bottom, sideways-and-backwards redesign in order to make the pages more navigable and easy to follow. There's still minor sprucing up going on, but please stop on by!
Saltation Readers Take Note: No Chapter on April 14 and Rule Change
Sharon and Steve have discovered that they can do no more than three things at once. Therefore, they will be upgrading the back room works at Saltation over the weekend of April 11 and 12. This upgrade will make updating the website much easier for the authors. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
Also! There has been a Rule Change posted on the Saltation front page. In short form, subscriptions for the trade paperback edition of Saltation will be capped at 1,000 books (there's a good reason why we're doing this, but we can't tell you what it is right now. Soon. No, really.).
There is a meter in place on the front page to help everybody keep track of how we're doing. Bear in mind that this meter is not updated instantly, or automagically; it is done by hand, when Sharon has had time to update the database.
Thank you all for your interest in and support of the Theo Waitley projects. We stand in awe of your generosity.
Fledgling High Rollers: Take Note
If you were one of the many people who kindly donated $50 or more to the project and you expected to receive more than one book, please write to Sharon at fledgling@korval.com and tell her this. The default for donations is one book. If you do write to Sharon, please include: (1) The name(s) you sent your payment under (really, we have no way of knowing that Anwar Morningstar is Sara Jones unless you tell us), (2) a copy of your PayPal receipt, if any, or the date and number of your check/money order. If you have moved since you ordered, please tell us that, too.
Please, please, please, for the love of Ghu don't write and ask if you donated more than $50; there are 1200! (egad!) orders in the Fledgling database and Sharon really doesn't have time (see "three things at once" above) to look up every single one. Thanks very much for your help in this.
Ace Reissues the Liaden Universe® in Mass Market
Ace Books will be reissuing the entire Liaden Universe® series in mass market paperback, starting in December 2008. The entire schedule is reproduced below:
Agent of Change -- December 2008
Conflict of Honors -- January 2009
Carpe Diem -- February 2009
Plan B -- June 2009
Local Custom -- July 2009
Scout's Progress -- August 2009
I Dare -- September 2009
Balance of Trade October 2009
Crystal Soldier -- November 2009
Crystal Dragon -- December 2009
...with very little cheating, this is a year of the Liaden Universe®, with a mini-gap between Carpe and Plan B, to commemorate the(muchmuchMUCH) longer original gap between those two books.
Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Toni Weisskopf of Baen Books has contracted with Sharon Lee and Steve Miller for an as-yet-untitled sequel to Liaden Universe® novel Scout's Progress. The deal was brokered by Jennifer Jackson of the Maass Agency.
And there was great rejoicing!
Remember! Duainfey, Book One in Lee and Miller's dark fantasy duology, will be coming out from Baen in September 2008!
Dragon Tide and The Tomorrow Log Coming to Webscriptions
Toni Weisskopf and Arnold Bailey have contracted for the right to publish SRM chapbook Dragon Tide: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 13 and Lee and Miller's space opera The Tomorrow Log as electronic books. Publication dates forthcoming!
Speaking of Anniversaries, Part Two
April first marked the the Thirtieth Anniversary of the merging of the Lee and Miller households into the Lee-Miller Household, soon thereafter to become the Lee and Miller Writing Empire! We couldn't have done it without y'all.
Liaden Universe® Companion, Volume One Available
Sold out in hardcover and trade paper, Liaden Universe® Companion Volume One is now available as a mass market paperback from the SRM online catalog (http://srmpublisher.com) or from a fine independent SF shop near you.
Meet the Authors: Three Ways to do it
Conventions:
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be at the following conventions:
Denvention, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention -- August 6 - 10 in Denver, Colorado -- http://www.denvention3.org/
Albacon, October 10 - 12 in Albany, New York.-- http://www.albacon.org/
Second Life:
Second Life Book Fair, Book and Publishing Islands (April 26, TBD): Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will participate in yet another in-world Second Life event, The Second Life Book Fair, with an hour talk on making a living writing genre fiction.
Also, while in Second Life, visit Chatrez, Second Life home of the Friends of Liad, the Science Fiction Rangers, and center of a lot of science fictional activity, including an inworld SRM Publisher shop.
Blogs:
Steve Miller's blog, Journeyman: http://kinzel.livejournal.com/
Sharon Lee's blog, Eagles over the Kennebec: http://rolanni.livejournal.com
Speaking of Anniversaries, Parts Three and Four
Steve Miller's first professional fiction, though bought by Editor Ted White in 1975, finally appeared in the May, 1978 issue of Amazing Science Fiction.
Steve Miller's first ever fiction publication, a short story called "The Clown," appeared in Junto, the Franklin Senior High School literary magazine, in Spring, 1968.
Other Blogs of Note
Theo_Waitley, the discussion group for readers of _Fledgling_: http://community.livejournal.com/theo_waitley/
Where Dragons Rest, a Liaden Universe® readers group:
http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_readers/
Liaden_Spoilers, a discussion group for readers of the Liaden Universe(R): http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_spoilers/
Disclaimer Stuff
This InfoDump is a product of the Liaden Universe®, accept no imitations. You have received this message because you asked for it. If you don't want to receive these mailings anymore, unsubscribe here:
http://www.fireopal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/liadenuniversenews
In this Issue:
Still Partying After All These Years
Anniversaries, Part One
SRM Publisher News
Saltation Rule Change
Fledgling News
Ace Reissues
Baen Contracts for New Liaden Novel
Webscriptions to Publish Chapbook and Novel
Anniversaries, Part Two
Liaden Universe(R) Companion Volume One Available in MMP
Meet the Authors
Anniversaries, Part Three & Four
Blogs
Still Partying: Celebrating 20 Years of the Liaden Universe®
In February 1988 Agent of Change first hit the shelves mass market original from Del Rey Books. Conflict of Honors followed in June of the same year. And the rest is history!
No, wait. The rest is story, that's it....
Speaking of Anniversaries, Part One
This month marks the first anniversary of Steve's Mad Dash(tm) down to Meisha Merlin's Georgia headquarters to take some of our books as payment on royalties owed. We were told at that time that the remaining books were in danger of being pulped, and that Meisha Merlin would contact its authors if the books were able to be rescued. We have not been contacted by Meisha Merlin, though we are in receipt of several rumors. To the best of our knowledge, all of the Meisha Merlin books that had been in the warehouse have been destroyed. There may be some in bookstore or distributor warehouses, or in the inventories of booksellers.
SRM Publisher does have Meisha Merlin editions of Lee and Miller books available for sale. If you don't see what you need, please inquire at catalog9@korval.com
Queries and orders by snail-mail should go to this new address:
PO Box 707
Waterville Maine 04903-0707
Speaking of SRM Publisher
Please visit the spiffy new online catalog at http://www.srmpublisher.com. SRM has done a top-to-bottom, sideways-and-backwards redesign in order to make the pages more navigable and easy to follow. There's still minor sprucing up going on, but please stop on by!
Saltation Readers Take Note: No Chapter on April 14 and Rule Change
Sharon and Steve have discovered that they can do no more than three things at once. Therefore, they will be upgrading the back room works at Saltation over the weekend of April 11 and 12. This upgrade will make updating the website much easier for the authors. We thank you for your patience and understanding.
Also! There has been a Rule Change posted on the Saltation front page. In short form, subscriptions for the trade paperback edition of Saltation will be capped at 1,000 books (there's a good reason why we're doing this, but we can't tell you what it is right now. Soon. No, really.).
There is a meter in place on the front page to help everybody keep track of how we're doing. Bear in mind that this meter is not updated instantly, or automagically; it is done by hand, when Sharon has had time to update the database.
Thank you all for your interest in and support of the Theo Waitley projects. We stand in awe of your generosity.
Fledgling High Rollers: Take Note
If you were one of the many people who kindly donated $50 or more to the project and you expected to receive more than one book, please write to Sharon at fledgling@korval.com and tell her this. The default for donations is one book. If you do write to Sharon, please include: (1) The name(s) you sent your payment under (really, we have no way of knowing that Anwar Morningstar is Sara Jones unless you tell us), (2) a copy of your PayPal receipt, if any, or the date and number of your check/money order. If you have moved since you ordered, please tell us that, too.
Please, please, please, for the love of Ghu don't write and ask if you donated more than $50; there are 1200! (egad!) orders in the Fledgling database and Sharon really doesn't have time (see "three things at once" above) to look up every single one. Thanks very much for your help in this.
Ace Reissues the Liaden Universe® in Mass Market
Ace Books will be reissuing the entire Liaden Universe® series in mass market paperback, starting in December 2008. The entire schedule is reproduced below:
Agent of Change -- December 2008
Conflict of Honors -- January 2009
Carpe Diem -- February 2009
Plan B -- June 2009
Local Custom -- July 2009
Scout's Progress -- August 2009
I Dare -- September 2009
Balance of Trade October 2009
Crystal Soldier -- November 2009
Crystal Dragon -- December 2009
...with very little cheating, this is a year of the Liaden Universe®, with a mini-gap between Carpe and Plan B, to commemorate the(muchmuchMUCH) longer original gap between those two books.
Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Toni Weisskopf of Baen Books has contracted with Sharon Lee and Steve Miller for an as-yet-untitled sequel to Liaden Universe® novel Scout's Progress. The deal was brokered by Jennifer Jackson of the Maass Agency.
And there was great rejoicing!
Remember! Duainfey, Book One in Lee and Miller's dark fantasy duology, will be coming out from Baen in September 2008!
Dragon Tide and The Tomorrow Log Coming to Webscriptions
Toni Weisskopf and Arnold Bailey have contracted for the right to publish SRM chapbook Dragon Tide: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 13 and Lee and Miller's space opera The Tomorrow Log as electronic books. Publication dates forthcoming!
Speaking of Anniversaries, Part Two
April first marked the the Thirtieth Anniversary of the merging of the Lee and Miller households into the Lee-Miller Household, soon thereafter to become the Lee and Miller Writing Empire! We couldn't have done it without y'all.
Liaden Universe® Companion, Volume One Available
Sold out in hardcover and trade paper, Liaden Universe® Companion Volume One is now available as a mass market paperback from the SRM online catalog (http://srmpublisher.com) or from a fine independent SF shop near you.
Meet the Authors: Three Ways to do it
Conventions:
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be at the following conventions:
Denvention, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention -- August 6 - 10 in Denver, Colorado -- http://www.denvention3.org/
Albacon, October 10 - 12 in Albany, New York.-- http://www.albacon.org/
Second Life:
Second Life Book Fair, Book and Publishing Islands (April 26, TBD): Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will participate in yet another in-world Second Life event, The Second Life Book Fair, with an hour talk on making a living writing genre fiction.
Also, while in Second Life, visit Chatrez, Second Life home of the Friends of Liad, the Science Fiction Rangers, and center of a lot of science fictional activity, including an inworld SRM Publisher shop.
Blogs:
Steve Miller's blog, Journeyman: http://kinzel.livejournal.com/
Sharon Lee's blog, Eagles over the Kennebec: http://rolanni.livejournal.com
Speaking of Anniversaries, Parts Three and Four
Steve Miller's first professional fiction, though bought by Editor Ted White in 1975, finally appeared in the May, 1978 issue of Amazing Science Fiction.
Steve Miller's first ever fiction publication, a short story called "The Clown," appeared in Junto, the Franklin Senior High School literary magazine, in Spring, 1968.
Other Blogs of Note
Theo_Waitley, the discussion group for readers of _Fledgling_: http://community.livejournal.com/theo_waitley/
Where Dragons Rest, a Liaden Universe® readers group:
http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_readers/
Liaden_Spoilers, a discussion group for readers of the Liaden Universe(R): http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_spoilers/
Disclaimer Stuff
This InfoDump is a product of the Liaden Universe®, accept no imitations. You have received this message because you asked for it. If you don't want to receive these mailings anymore, unsubscribe here:
http://www.fireopal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/liadenuniversenews
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Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Date: 2008-04-06 04:30 pm (UTC)Re: Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Date: 2008-04-06 04:40 pm (UTC)Re: Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Date: 2008-04-06 04:59 pm (UTC)Re: Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Date: 2008-04-06 05:35 pm (UTC)Re: Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Date: 2008-04-06 07:07 pm (UTC)For all the reasons already listed!
Re: Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Date: 2008-04-06 07:10 pm (UTC)Re: Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Date: 2008-04-07 12:58 am (UTC)My wife and kids were amused.
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Date: 2008-04-06 07:52 pm (UTC)The site looks great. Excellent work. As always, thank you for keeping us informed.
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Date: 2008-04-07 12:50 pm (UTC)Tricia
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Date: 2008-04-10 03:24 am (UTC)-- Kath