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Meant to get an InfoDump out today; that didn’t happen. Meant to update the coming attractions page; that didn’t happen, either. Meant to get with SRM end-of-year bookkeping — nope, not that, either.

Well, jayzus, woman, what did you do all weekend?

Last night, Steve and I made pizza. That was fun. And more fun had in the eating of it.

Let see…today I got MacDuff the G4 onto the desk and rigged out with a monitor, keyboard and mouse to call his own. Haven’t squared him up with the Cat Farm internet connection yet –could be I got a bad piece of Cat5 cable. Hah! We haff oder cables. My ghod, don’t we just.

What else? Configured, compiled and uploaded Allies: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 12 to the Kindle and the Nook stores. As of this writing, BN is lagging behind by two ebooks (Allies and Halfling Moon); they were doing server maintenance this weekend, so I’d look for Liaden ebooks in the Nook store sometime Monday afternoon.

For those playing along at home, Liaden chapbooks currently available in electrik format are: Two Tales of Korval: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number One; Allies: AitLU Number Twelve; Halfling Moon, AitLU Number Sixteen; and Skyblaze: AitLU Number Seventeen.

The reason for the out-of-sequence choices is that Skyblaze, Halfling Moon, and Allies contain stories that may make the Ghost Ship reading experience slightly richer. We hear from Toni at Baen that the Ghost Ship eArc may hit Webscriptions sometime during the coming week.

Um, I got all geeked out about the fact that the Liaden Universe® is Number One in the GeekSpeak Magazine List of Top 13 Recommendations

What else did I do? Various bits of housework. And I just now finished printing out the galleys for The Crystal Variation, which is due back at Baen no later than May 2. That’s just under 1200 pages to be copyread, for those keeping score. Yes, I do believe that the omnibus edition will be shipped with its own wheelbarrow.

Oh, and I did some very minor bits of work on George, creeping along into the depths of Chapter Fifteen. Go, me.

And now? Now, I’m calling a day, going to go find my husband, a sammich and a glass of wine. Perhaps there will be reading outloud. That would be pleasant.

Progress on the Book Presently known as George
35,575 words/100,000 OR 35.58% complete

“Two nos in the course of one meal is rather too many,” his mother noted. “Especially for so short a meal as breakfast. Pray strive to limit your use of the negative until at least tomorrow lunch-time, my son.”

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Date: 2011-04-17 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mme-hardy.livejournal.com
"Ghost Ship eArc"

EEEEE. ::dance dance dance::

Thank you for putting the chapbooks up on Kindle; I found yesterday to my delight that I'd never read "Halfling Moon", grabbed it, and gobbled. I'll go check the remaining titles to see which (A) aren't in the anthologies and (B) I didn't buy as chapbooks.

Thank you for all the pleasure your writing has given me; they're my comfort books, and have been read and reread this past year. I think I've read Skyblaze four times in the last week.

Do you expect we will find out some day where Luken's belTarda heir is?

Date: 2011-04-17 11:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mme-hardy.livejournal.com
Oops. bel'Tarda. My apologies.

Date: 2011-04-17 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katmoonshaker.livejournal.com
Ditto!!!

I just popped over and shared the url for Geek Speak on my FB page. muahahahahahaha! I try to never lose an opportunity to encourage others to immerse themselves in the Liaden Universe®
.

Date: 2011-04-18 12:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ingrid44.livejournal.com
I am joining the ranks of the ebook readers. My new Kindle should arrive within the next two weeks - some new version being introduced. Pre-order took place Monday last. *sighs at wait*

Date: 2011-04-18 12:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drammar.livejournal.com
MacDuff will play nicely with your internet as wireless also -- and if it seems to want Airport I'll send that to you too.

Date: 2011-04-18 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rolanni.livejournal.com
He did mention Airport, but I thought a nice, direct cable connection would do as a substitute. Could be I'm wrong. I actually don't know from Airport -- is it hardware?

Date: 2011-04-18 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] redpimpernel.livejournal.com
Airport is just Apple's version of a wireless router.

Date: 2011-04-18 01:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] drammar.livejournal.com
Direct cable will work, but if he gets moody, I'll send the Airport stuff for you. Airport is in fact hardware that allows him to hook in wirelessly.

I had him hard wired in, so I forgot about Airport when I was packing the box. I have a FIOS router, and just had him plugged into the back of it via Cat5.

And I apologize for not warning you all about the volume of the G chord on start up -- I hope he didn't scare the cats.

Date: 2011-04-18 10:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] joycependle.livejournal.com
Ghost Ship this (next?) week? Squee!

Date: 2011-04-18 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amm-me.livejournal.com
Ghost Ship earc :-)YAY YAY YAY
and Toni and authors get more of my money.

It's been so LONG since I Dare, can't wait another extra day.

Date: 2011-04-18 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] danielle ellis (from livejournal.com)
Just bought Halfling Moon and Allies from B&N. I love being able to get these as ebooks. With moving so much I'm trying to reduce the number of print books I have.

Date: 2011-04-18 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dhw.livejournal.com
See, now I'm going to wear out the refresh button on my browser checking the e-Arc page...

Date: 2011-04-18 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mme-hardy.livejournal.com
Seconded.

electronic books

Date: 2011-04-19 02:20 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Will you be uploading the chapbooks to kobo books or fictionwise or the sony ebookstore or the baen website? I haven't had a lot of luck with getting kindle or nook books to run on my ereader. Which is possibly/probably user error, or maybe it's just that I'm not in the US : )

Michelle Szafron

Re: electronic books

Date: 2011-04-20 01:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rolanni.livejournal.com
Not likely. Fictionwise wants a five-year exclusive, which I gave them once and am sorry for. Many of the stories were available through the Sony ebookstore (they're not, now, due to changes by management), and I haven't seen either paym$nt or an accounting.

Kobo...I'll have to research, but -- if the device reads Epub, the Nook edition ought to work fine for you -- we're making the chapbooks available DRM-free.

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