Projects in Train, Upcoming Travel

[rolanni]

Yes, yes, we did just get back from, Steve tells me, seventeen-and-a-half days on the road.  However! Advertent readers will have noted that, during our time away, I purchased a corset.

There was a reason I did that.

Steve and I, with Phil and Kaja Foglio, Abney Park, and many, many other Very Cool People will be Guests at The Great New England Steampunk Exposition in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.  The Exposition begins on Friday, September 16, and runs through Sunday, September 18 — and! I see that the program has been posted.

This promises to be a delightful and awesome experience, so do plan on attending!

Once we return from the Expo, we’ll be sticking very close to home (and writing like mad writing things, ahem) until it’s time to make the trip to Chattanooga, in mid-January.

Writing projects currently in hand:

Dragon Ship — Steve is lead writer on this project, which is the sequel to Ghost Ship

George — Sharon is lead writer on this project, which sorta takes place in a pocket of Ghost Ship. If I do it right, it will be another Portal Book into the Liaden Universe®, joining Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, Balance of Trade, Local Custom, Fledgling.  An amusing, if not outright terrifying, note:  We had dinner with Madame the Editor at WorldCon, wherein she inquired after “George.”  The die may be cast.

“Guaranteed Delivery” — For the moment, Sharon is lead writer for the original fiction posted on Splinter Universe.  This will change as various deadlines approach and are surpassed.  This particular story, which I hope to post on September 12, concerns  the Ride the Luck courier service.

“The Space at Tinsori Light” — another story destined for Splinter Universe, featuring a yos’Phelium pilot from the Diaries.  Shooting for mid-October posting, though here we’re getting near the delivery deadline for Dragon Ship, and all things give way before a book deadline.

Trade Secret — the sequel to Balance of Trade.  Steve is lead writer on this project.

You will note that there is no Yule Chapbook in this schedule.  As those who were at WorldCon heard, Steve and I are in the process of closing down SRM Publisher.  We are looking for ways to see paper chapbooks published, perhaps on demand, but we’re still in the exploration stage.  As soon as we know what shape the future will take, we’ll let y’all know.

 

Edited to Add: Per request in comments. If you wish to donate to the Splinter Universe Project, or in support of a particular story, and you would prefer not to use PayPal, you may send a check or money order (us funds only, thank you) made out to Sharon Lee, Steve Miller, or both to:
Splinter Universe
c/o Lee and Miller
P.O. Box 707
Waterville Maine 04903

This information is also available on the Splinter Universe front page.

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

Comments

Short story encouragement

[(Anonymous)]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I am ready to send another check, both to express my appreciation of Kin Ties and to encourage more short story production. For those of us who wish to do the same but who do not "do" Pay Pal, can you please furnish the PO box address again for snail mail offerings? I promise this time to write it in my address book for future reference. Write on!

Anne in Virginia

The corset

[kalilama.livejournal.com]

Thank you for explaining the corset, I was mighty puzzled about that. Girdles, garter belts, and suchlike live on in my ancient memory as things I am happy never to have to wear again, ever. But for Steampunk I can see it...on someone other than me.

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Madame Editor is one sharp cookie and I hope she has pried George out of your maternal clutches.

[otterb.livejournal.com]

I'm sure looking forward to those Splinter Universe stories. (And to the books too, of course, but I'll get to see the stories much sooner.) Will amble over to Paypal at some point over the weekend and express my anticipation in that form.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

May one assume that this is not the undergarment/torture device of yore, best shown perhaps in Gone With the Wind where IRRC someone was told to breathe out so that they could yank the ties tight? This is a more decorative revealed version of the armor of the past?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

A possible tagline for the cover of George: "You've heard of the Dragon and the George? Well, this is George. And the Dragons? You'll see!"

Nah... well, maybe... hum...

[trolleypup.livejournal.com]

Trade Secrets: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[star-horse3.livejournal.com]

Yay Trade Secrets! Happy dance from Illinois. (Sorry about Amtrak mess in Chicago-and they wonder about Amtrak's difficulties in finding repeat customers). I wore out my copy of Balance of Trade so I bought it in several formats now, and shared it with the next generation as well.

Space at Tinsori Light

[(Anonymous)]

I may assume that this is the tale referenced in Scout's Progress? "Emergency at Tinsori Light. Left my ring in earnest. The keeper's a cantra-grubbing pirate, but the ship should hold air to Lytaxin. Send one of ours and eight cantra to redeem my pledge. Send them armed. In fact send two..." Jen Sin yos'Phelium to his delm. Yes, hmmmm? Can't wait! Jen from CO