Liaden Universe® InfoDump No. 81
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rolanniFledgling Second Flight
The mass market paperback of Fledgling will be in stores near you realsoonnow. We've seen release dates from February 23 to March 15. Now is not too soon to drop by your favorite bookstore and ask when it will be in.
Fledgling Signed Hardcovers up for Adoption
We believe that everyone who should have received a signed, "thank you" Fledgling direct from the authors has now received their book. (NOTE: If you should have received a book and you don't have it in hand, WRITE TO SHARON NOW! at fledglingATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT). We are therefore putting the one hundred twenty-four (124) unclaimed books up for adoption. If you want a signed copy, this is
what to do:
1. If you are in the North America, you may PayPal $30 to fledglingATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT). You are responsible for being sure that the delivery address is correct.
2. If you are outside of North America, you may PayPal $40 to fledglingATkorval.com (where@ replaces AT). You are responsible for being sure that the delivery address is correct.
3. If you prefer to send a check or money order (in US funds drawn on a US bank only, please), write to fledglingATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT) and tell Sharon that you are putting a check in the mail to her at: Sharon Lee, PO Box 707, Waterville ME 04903-0707
4. Prices include shipping. The reason for the discrepancy between North American and other orders is that the United States Post Office has lost its tiny mind. We apologize profusely for this lapse of rationality.
5. Because there are a limited number of these books in hand, this will be a First Come, First Served operation. This is why is very important for those who prefer to do commerce by check to tell Sharon that a check has been sent.
6. This adoption may not be combined with any SRM order; the Fledgling and Saltation are Lee-and-Miller projects, and are fully separate from SRM Publisher. It seems a tiny, tiny thing, but it makes our accountant happy when we put the money in the right piles, and we're all about keeping our accountant happy.
Saltation Distant Early Warning
Sometime within the next couple months, Sharon and Steve will be taking delivery of the thank-you books for Saltation subscribers. Please Note that all subscribers will be contacted by email in order to verify delivery addresses. You will be contacted by Scott Raun, the long-time administrator of the Friends of Liad mailing list and the
liadenuniversenews list. We've known and worked with Scott for many, many years, we trust him implicitly, and we urge you to trust him in this matter. Many of you will remember that Scott did the address verification for Fledgling. The email address that he will be writing to you from is saltation_verifyATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT).
We have already had several inquiries regarding our plans for receiving and shipping Saltation. Follows our timeline:
We will probably take delivery of 1200 copies of Saltation in March. We don't know exactly when in March. We have an Educated Guess in hand, but at this point it is exactly that, and not a hard delivery date.
After we take delivery of those books and get them under roof in the cold storage next to SRM Galactic Headquarters, we will sign them*.
*I don't know how long it's going to take, exactly, to sign 1100 books (which I believe to be the total of subscriber orders). Eleven hundred books is A Lot of books; I mention this because some folks seem to have no concept of that. Also, even though we both have relatively short names, signing them 1100 times takes a while. Our experience with
Fledgling suggests that *signing alone* will consume on the order of several days to a week. Alas, we cannot devote a full week to only signing books; we have a day-job, and SRM usual business to accommodate during this time.
After the books are signed, we will log the database and print the labels. This also takes time, because, yanno -- printers, labels, on-line postage services. . . Once the labels are printed, Steve will single-handedly pack and mail those 1100 books. This could, conservatively, take weeks and weeks. And weeks.
It's entirely possible, as with Fledgling, that subscribers will receive their thank-you Saltations months after the book has been available from bookstores. We apologize for this and regret any inconvenience.
To sum up: We intend to ship Saltation to subscribers as quickly as humanly possible without killing ourselves, neglecting the cats, or defaulting on other of life's obligations. This seems the best course for everyone.
Please Note: At this time, we are closing pre-support donations to Saltation. If we have any books left over after the epic task described above is completed, and a suitable waiting period joined, we will put them up for adoption.
Thank you all for your understanding of this process -- and for your interest in and on-going support of our work.
Postage Fund
Postage rates have gone up for the. . .fourth. . .time since Sharon and Steve began writing Fledgling. What this means that the money we set aside for postage is not quite as large and grand a pile as we thought it was when we started out.
For instance, postage to France and to Australia is now $17.64 (assuming Saltation will be to Fledgling's dimensions, which is Just Too Big to fit into a small international box, which would knock about $3 off the cost). Postage to New Zealand is $16.99**; and to Canada, $8.93
Those who wish to donate extra postage money may do so by sending an amount that seems Just and Good to them via PayPal to postageATkorval.com, where @ replaces AT.
This is, we feel compelled to note, Strictly Voluntary; no one will have their book held because we're "short" postage money*.
Thank you all.
------------------
*We will (and have, for Fledgling) ask for additional postage funds from people whose book is returned to us, because that is an extra, and avoidable, expense.
Where in the World are Lee and Miller?
Sharon and Steve will be Writer Guests of Honor at Oasis 23 (http://www.oasfis.org/oasis/) May 28 - 30, 2010 in Orlando, Florida! In addition to stellar programming, planning is going forth for a Friends of Liad breakfast!
June 18 - 20, 2010, Steve and Sharon will be Literary Guests of Honor at DucKon 19 (http://www.duckon.org/) in Naperville, Illinois! In addition to exciting program items, there is a rumor (as yet unsubstantiated) of a Liaden High Tea!
Please remember to tell the registration folks that we sent you!
We will also be attending ReConStruction, the 10th Occassional North American Science Fiction Convention, in Raleigh, NC, August 5-8, 2010.
Yes, You can Read Lee and Miller on Your Ebook Reader!
All of the published Liaden Universe® books, the Fey Duology, and The Tomorrow Log are available from Baen Webscriptions (http://www.webscription.net/s-117-sharon-lee.aspx)
There are instructions on the Webscription site for downloading their books to your
Kindle, iPhone, iTouch, Sony EReader, and other devices (just click the link on the upper
left-hand side of the page)
Several Sharon Lee short stories, and the Jennifer Pierce Maine novels, Barnburner and Gunshy, are available from Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/SharonLeeeBooks.htm)
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
Children's Book Cellar:
http://www.indiebound.org/stores/childrens-book-cellar
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
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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
Steve's on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bechimo
DISCLAIMER STUFF
This InfoDump is a product of the Liaden UniverseŽ, accept no
imitations. You have received this message because you asked for it. If
you wish to subscribe to the Liaden Universe(R) email list, go here:
http://www.fireopal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/liadenuniversenews
The mass market paperback of Fledgling will be in stores near you realsoonnow. We've seen release dates from February 23 to March 15. Now is not too soon to drop by your favorite bookstore and ask when it will be in.
Fledgling Signed Hardcovers up for Adoption
We believe that everyone who should have received a signed, "thank you" Fledgling direct from the authors has now received their book. (NOTE: If you should have received a book and you don't have it in hand, WRITE TO SHARON NOW! at fledglingATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT). We are therefore putting the one hundred twenty-four (124) unclaimed books up for adoption. If you want a signed copy, this is
what to do:
1. If you are in the North America, you may PayPal $30 to fledglingATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT). You are responsible for being sure that the delivery address is correct.
2. If you are outside of North America, you may PayPal $40 to fledglingATkorval.com (where@ replaces AT). You are responsible for being sure that the delivery address is correct.
3. If you prefer to send a check or money order (in US funds drawn on a US bank only, please), write to fledglingATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT) and tell Sharon that you are putting a check in the mail to her at: Sharon Lee, PO Box 707, Waterville ME 04903-0707
4. Prices include shipping. The reason for the discrepancy between North American and other orders is that the United States Post Office has lost its tiny mind. We apologize profusely for this lapse of rationality.
5. Because there are a limited number of these books in hand, this will be a First Come, First Served operation. This is why is very important for those who prefer to do commerce by check to tell Sharon that a check has been sent.
6. This adoption may not be combined with any SRM order; the Fledgling and Saltation are Lee-and-Miller projects, and are fully separate from SRM Publisher. It seems a tiny, tiny thing, but it makes our accountant happy when we put the money in the right piles, and we're all about keeping our accountant happy.
Saltation Distant Early Warning
Sometime within the next couple months, Sharon and Steve will be taking delivery of the thank-you books for Saltation subscribers. Please Note that all subscribers will be contacted by email in order to verify delivery addresses. You will be contacted by Scott Raun, the long-time administrator of the Friends of Liad mailing list and the
liadenuniversenews list. We've known and worked with Scott for many, many years, we trust him implicitly, and we urge you to trust him in this matter. Many of you will remember that Scott did the address verification for Fledgling. The email address that he will be writing to you from is saltation_verifyATkorval.com (where @ replaces AT).
We have already had several inquiries regarding our plans for receiving and shipping Saltation. Follows our timeline:
We will probably take delivery of 1200 copies of Saltation in March. We don't know exactly when in March. We have an Educated Guess in hand, but at this point it is exactly that, and not a hard delivery date.
After we take delivery of those books and get them under roof in the cold storage next to SRM Galactic Headquarters, we will sign them*.
*I don't know how long it's going to take, exactly, to sign 1100 books (which I believe to be the total of subscriber orders). Eleven hundred books is A Lot of books; I mention this because some folks seem to have no concept of that. Also, even though we both have relatively short names, signing them 1100 times takes a while. Our experience with
Fledgling suggests that *signing alone* will consume on the order of several days to a week. Alas, we cannot devote a full week to only signing books; we have a day-job, and SRM usual business to accommodate during this time.
After the books are signed, we will log the database and print the labels. This also takes time, because, yanno -- printers, labels, on-line postage services. . . Once the labels are printed, Steve will single-handedly pack and mail those 1100 books. This could, conservatively, take weeks and weeks. And weeks.
It's entirely possible, as with Fledgling, that subscribers will receive their thank-you Saltations months after the book has been available from bookstores. We apologize for this and regret any inconvenience.
To sum up: We intend to ship Saltation to subscribers as quickly as humanly possible without killing ourselves, neglecting the cats, or defaulting on other of life's obligations. This seems the best course for everyone.
Please Note: At this time, we are closing pre-support donations to Saltation. If we have any books left over after the epic task described above is completed, and a suitable waiting period joined, we will put them up for adoption.
Thank you all for your understanding of this process -- and for your interest in and on-going support of our work.
Postage Fund
Postage rates have gone up for the. . .fourth. . .time since Sharon and Steve began writing Fledgling. What this means that the money we set aside for postage is not quite as large and grand a pile as we thought it was when we started out.
For instance, postage to France and to Australia is now $17.64 (assuming Saltation will be to Fledgling's dimensions, which is Just Too Big to fit into a small international box, which would knock about $3 off the cost). Postage to New Zealand is $16.99**; and to Canada, $8.93
Those who wish to donate extra postage money may do so by sending an amount that seems Just and Good to them via PayPal to postageATkorval.com, where @ replaces AT.
This is, we feel compelled to note, Strictly Voluntary; no one will have their book held because we're "short" postage money*.
Thank you all.
------------------
*We will (and have, for Fledgling) ask for additional postage funds from people whose book is returned to us, because that is an extra, and avoidable, expense.
Where in the World are Lee and Miller?
Sharon and Steve will be Writer Guests of Honor at Oasis 23 (http://www.oasfis.org/oasis/) May 28 - 30, 2010 in Orlando, Florida! In addition to stellar programming, planning is going forth for a Friends of Liad breakfast!
June 18 - 20, 2010, Steve and Sharon will be Literary Guests of Honor at DucKon 19 (http://www.duckon.org/) in Naperville, Illinois! In addition to exciting program items, there is a rumor (as yet unsubstantiated) of a Liaden High Tea!
Please remember to tell the registration folks that we sent you!
We will also be attending ReConStruction, the 10th Occassional North American Science Fiction Convention, in Raleigh, NC, August 5-8, 2010.
Yes, You can Read Lee and Miller on Your Ebook Reader!
All of the published Liaden Universe® books, the Fey Duology, and The Tomorrow Log are available from Baen Webscriptions (http://www.webscription.net/s-117-sharon-lee.aspx)
There are instructions on the Webscription site for downloading their books to your
Kindle, iPhone, iTouch, Sony EReader, and other devices (just click the link on the upper
left-hand side of the page)
Several Sharon Lee short stories, and the Jennifer Pierce Maine novels, Barnburner and Gunshy, are available from Fictionwise (http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/SharonLeeeBooks.htm)
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
Children's Book Cellar:
http://www.indiebound.org/stores/childrens-book-cellar
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
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting
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
Steve's on Twitter: http://twitter.com/bechimo
DISCLAIMER STUFF
This InfoDump is a product of the Liaden UniverseŽ, accept no
imitations. You have received this message because you asked for it. If
you wish to subscribe to the Liaden Universe(R) email list, go here:
http://www.fireopal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/liadenuniversenews
Is there going to be an eARc from baen of Mouse and Dragon?
Date: 2010-02-18 01:38 am (UTC)Rose from Syracuse, NY