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[rolanni]

For those who care about such things, brand-new Liaden Universe® novelette “Kin Ties” is now live! on the intertubes! right here.

Enjoy!

Edited to Add: FAIR WARNING! Spoilers in comments.

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

Comments

Kin Ties

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Ren Zel is one of my favorite characters and I am all joy to encounter him thus again in such a deftly crafted and entertaining story. It was deeply satisfying to learn that indeed Jabun did reap the Balance he had sown, as Ren Zel's Foretelling had predicted in Changeling and also to know that his Aunt Chane has had her heart Healed from its long pain. Honor and Balance and the Dragon's meddling to good purpose.

What a GOOD idea this short story project is proving to be and I for one am happy to encourage it with another donation. The check will be in the mail, timed to arrive when you all return from your travels. I don't do Pay Pal so snail mail will suit the purpose admirably. If we are very very lucky, the train trip will allow you to produce another short story for our delectation and eventually perhaps enough of them to compile into another chapbook or maybe even a contracted book with Baen of Liaden themed short stories. Are there any plans to enable us to buy electronic versions to load on our ereaders as we do with the chap books?

Bravo. More, more, more!

Anne in Virginia

Re: Kin Ties

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Now, see? It was worth the wait.

I'm pretty pleased with it my own self.

Are there any plans to enable us to buy electronic versions to load on our ereaders as we do with the chap books?

The plan is eventually to retire the stories from the site and make them available in eChapbook form from the Usual Suspects.

Re: Kin Ties

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know about anyone else but I would certainly go ahead and buy an e-version now even while it is available free on the site. I got my Kindle specifically for traveling...I always buy dead tree versions to read at home...so it wouldn't bother me at all to have it downloadable now for a dollar or so. Another revenue stream to gently swell the flow. And then, when a sufficient number of the short stories were available they could be bundled. Maybe you could offer a poll or comment post specifically to see if I'm the only one who wouldn't object to having access to a download version sooner rather than later even while the free version runs.

Anne in Virginia

Re: Kin Ties

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

I'd buy something for my iPod Touch! But if you prefer to make a bundle before making it available... huh, you could make a subscription version? Buy your Splinter Universe Bundle #1 now for ??? and as the stories are written, it will be populated? Whatever works for you -- but getting a nicely prepared epub, rtf etc. version for the mobile library (Stanza for me) would be nice. And bring in more shekels for the storyteller bending over her bowl...