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[rolanni]

A bunch of un- and half-related stuff to let people know about.

1. Mr. French, a promising young cat-about-house, is, through not fault of his own, in need of a new situation. French (photo below) is about 2 years old, playful, affectionate, likes people of all sizes, is smart, and quite athletic. He talks often, doesn’t meow, but chirps and hums which is rather charming. He is healthy, has claws, and has lived indoors since accepting his current position, at the tender age of about 4 months. He is up to date on all shots and exams. He comes with toys, and excellent references. If you are within a couple hours of Portland, Maine and can offer French the sort of quality establishment he so richly deserves, please write to Kali Lightfoot — lightfoot44ATgmailDOTcom

2.  Fellow Maine author and fantasy writer James A. Hetley has just today made his excellent novelette “Dragon’s Bones” available electronically through Smashwords.  I highly recommend this story, which was published in paper in 2009 by SRM, Publisher.  Also!  Jim has plans to eventually make his backlist Maine fantasy novels into ebooks, so be on the lookout!

3.  I dinked around with the Pinbeam Books front page this morning. You can now subscribe to the RSS feed and it’ll, yanno, actually feed.

4.  For those who missed all the excitement yesterday, “Intelligent Design” is now available to be read for free at the Baen website.  Also new on the site is Tony Daniel’s essay “Gravity’s Punch” and a brand! new! reading group and study guide for Ghost Ship, courtesy of Baen’s own Laura Haywood-Cory.

5.  The eBook edition of Ghost Ship was released yesterday.  Remember, Baen eBooks come in a number of DRM-free fomats, including Nook (ePub) and Kindle (mobi), so you can read them on the device(s) of your choice!

6.  Since we have a new wave of Ghost Ship Early Adopters — those who have or will soon purchase that eBook noted in #5, above — please refer to this blog entry.  All help greatly appreciated.

Progress on “Kin Ties”
8846 words out of 10,000(?)

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

Comments

Mr. French

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Wishing Mr. French good luck in finding a forever home.
C. and furry Gang.

Lost in translation. I should have translated Abundant Spanish Aunts: tias espanolas abundantes. Sorry.
C.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Kin Ties? Drat, I've lost track... a short story? For a flounder? No... an anthology? Chapbook for your thoughts? I give up... what's Kin Ties?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

"Kin Ties" is scheduled to be the first story (as opposed to "splinter") posted on Splinter Universe (http://www.splinteruniverse.com). The plan, insofar as there is a plan, is to put it up just before we head off to Reno and parts West-and-North-Central, to give y'all something to do while we're away.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's where I've seen the title. I thought it was familiar. Thanks!

Intelligent Design and Ghost Ship

[(Anonymous)]

Picked up both stories after seeing this post. What can I say, you and Steve just get better and better.
Intelligent Design encapsulated the origins of Jeeves as butler and home security to Korval excellently.
Ghost ship swept me away to the Liaden Universe and I really did not want to come back out again. I will definately be revisiting both stories again and again. Thank you both for giving me such pleasure.