Liaden Universe® InfoDump #74

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Liaden Universe® InfoDump #74

DOUBLE VISION DOUBLE VISION
Hurry -- pre-orders close June 14 ... no, given the printing schedule adjustments, let's make that June 19! Right -- you have 5 extra days to order!
This huge 300 page plus SRM Publisher trade paperback collection of Lee & Miller's non-Liaden short work (that is, novella length and shorter) is
coming together and due out at the end of the month. Incldued are some of th authors earliest work, as well as some more recent.
There are individual stories here as well as collaborations, and you'll find the Liaden work pre-figured in some of the older pieces and echoed
(and perhaps pre-figured as well!) in some of the mid-date work.

Note: Due to prior contracts, this collection WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY. Most if these stories are available in e-formats, but not
in one place, by one publisher. Preorders for the signed first run are due in to SRM by June 19, 2009 (like a week from this Infodump!) Visit
https://www.srmpublisher.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=&idproduct=49 to order ... cover coming soon!

FACEBOOK
If you're on Facebook and are interested in matters Liaden you should know there are several groups of specific interest to
Lee and Miller readers. The groups: Friends of Liad and Flaran Cha'Menthi are the larger ones, and there's also a smaller
Clan Korval group. Look around to see who you may know, or jump on in. Steve is on Facebook but so far Sharon's been
sticking with LJ and the regular Liaden mailing lists. Consider joing a Liaden-specific list -- and add Steve as a friend if you like.

BAEN FLEDGLING E-ARC BUNDLE NOW AVAILABLE
Remember that the Fledgling electronic ARC (Advance Reading Copy) is now available from Baen Webscriptions (http://www.webscription.net//). Bundled with the E-arc are The Tomorrow Log and Dragon Tide. Because Dragon Tide is a shorter form than Webscriptions is accustomed to dealing with, it in turn has been bundled with TTL creating the "book" entitled The Tomorrow Log and Dragon Tide. Please note that the first draft of Fledgling has been removed from the web, as per the authors' agreement with Baen Books.


SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS DAY
Sharon proposed this idea in her blog, and it seems to be a hit -- visit her original blog about it here:
http://rolanni.livejournal.com/439604.html and the
Facebook page for it here:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=96106336820

Be sure to celebrate your favorite authors on SF&F Writers day!

WORLDCON
Montreal -- WorldCon .. who wants to help plan an FoL breakfast? Maybe a Friends of Liad run to a local Italian restaurant
(I know, go to Montreal and look for Italian? But it'll be different Italian than we get in Waterville or Albany, Boston, I betcha!)
Will there be enough people going for a Friends of Liad party/suite/ fan table?
The fan table at Denvention worked well, I think and acted as a nexus for FoL. See the facebook groups above as well as the Friends of Liad mailing list and our blog -- let's start talking --
Anticipation is barely two months away!

SAMPLE CHAPTERS AND OTHER WORDS
Until the update to the Liaden Universe® website is complete the best place to send friends looking to sample
Liaden stories is to Sharon's recently reformulated blog: Eagles over the Kennebec: http://rolanni.livejournal.com/
The sidebar is a veritable key to information for readers old and new.

LEE AND MILLER PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
Double Vision, SRM Publisher, trade paper, June 2009
Fledgling, Baen Books, hardcover, September 2009
Misfits, SRM Publisher chapbook date TBA
TBA (Yule chapbook), SRM Publisher, November 2009
Saltation, Baen Books, Spring 2010
Carousel Tides (by Sharon Lee), Baen Books, Summer 2010
Mouse and Dragon, Baen Books, September 2010

Gear! Summer shirts, hats, and totes!
Visit the SRM CafePress store: http://www.cafepress.com/srmpublisher

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE
Uncle Hugo's: http://www.unclehugo.com/

University Bookstore:
http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/services.taf?dept=about&category=loca <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/

Disclaimer Stuff
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Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

There's a nice Italian restaurant Da Franco, on Notre Dame, easy walking distance from the Palais. See forthcoming Restaurant Guide or antici_food community.

New Format

[(Anonymous)]

Your new format is binjali. It is much easier to read on a hand-held device.
I enjoyed reading the Fledgling ARC. The changes made to this final draft both tied up loose ends and made 'better' sense of Theo's time on planet.

Double Vision

[(Anonymous)]

I'm interested in this book, but there's no list of included stories on the SRM site (or this blog entry). I have lots of your "stuff" in ebook form, (some of it as EBK file type and am nervous that someday a Microsoft update will make the EBK reader inoperative). My decision of whether to buy the book would be affected by how many stories I already have in what format.

Could the SRM description include the TOC?

Thanks,

Angie

PS Love your books and your blog (it's the only one I read so far)

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Not the final order
Ginger and the Bully of Lower gate Court / The Big Ice / The Cat’s Job / Coffee Cat / Charioteer /
Choices / Cards / A Matter of Ceremony / The Girl, the Cat, and the Deviant / The Inventoried /
The Afterimage / Rain Day / The Handsome Prince /
Stolen Laughter / Master of The Winds / Passionato / The Solution / The Pretender / The Silver Pathway / Stormshelter / The Naming of Kinzel / Kinzel The Innocent / Kinzel The Arbiter / And Hawks for Heralds / The Winter Consort / Candlelight / The Year They Brought The Bears to Belfast / Gonna Boogie With Granny Time / Master Walk / Notes From The Wilds of Maine

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The book contains about 125,000 words, so it's a handful.