Come on take a little walk with me baby, and tell me who do you love?

[rolanni]

I'm sorry I've been a little scarce lately -- lots to do on a bunch of different fronts. 

I can report that all of the Archers Beach t-shirts are in the mail.  Overseas orders were just mailed yesterday-Wednesday, rather than on Tuesday, as originally planned, and should arrive in 7-10 days. 

I have heard from Various Geographical Locales Inside the US that tees are landing, so the Post Office is, indeed, on the case.  Please do allow at least 7 days (from Monday, July 23) before assuming that your tee is AWOL. 

Of the several projects in hand, one is near completion.  I have just one more book to review with the narrator -- that conversation set for tomorrow.  As far as I can tell, things are moving ahead of schedule on the recording front.  I'm amazed, and absolutely delighted to have such committed pros on the Liaden project(s).

Another project in hand is an echapbook that will reprint various writing-related essays from Eagles Over the Kennebec and The Blog With No Name.  I've sort of slowed to a crawl there because I need to learn how to make a table of contents with internal links. 

Also on the table is prep for my remove to Archers Old Orchard Beach during September.  Besides packing, I need to figure out how best to do the Archers Beach blog.  I have a Pinterest account here, where I will post pictures, and I suppose I'll blog at the Carousel Tides website.  I don't expect to become a performer, but keeping all of the on-site experience in one place seems to make sense.

Fans of Silversocks will be pleased to learn that he is gaining weight with no repeat of the Issues for which he was hospitalized last month.  He's still a little sniffly, but we're working on that.

Carousel Sun -- you thought I'd forgotten about Carousel Sun, didn't you? -- has broken 10,000 words.  It's really interesting to see the backbrain setting up the hooks for this one.  I wish the work were going faster, naturally, but I'm pleased with the story-progress so far.

And!  For those who have been patiently waiting, and those who have *not* been patiently waiting -- "Landed Alien" will be published to the Baen front page on August 15, a Wednesday.  It will be published on the front page, but below the fold, as we used to say back at the newspaper.  That means you will have to scroll down the page a bit to find the story.

If you're in doubt about this process, you can practice now:  go here and scroll down until you come to "Conella and the Cyclops Sea Serpent of Doom," by John Ringo. 

. . .I believe that's all the news that's fit to print.    Hope everybody has a lovely Thursday and that all projects in hand are progressing smoothly and with no unpleasant surprises.

Comments

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

I have my shirt now (in Boston), and will wear it when going to Old Orchard Beach in a few weeks. The shirt design is awesome. Thanks so much.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Splendid. I think OOB is going to get confused; there are a bunch of us planning on going through over the next couple months, and we will all, of course (ahem) be wearing, at least some of the time, our Archers Beach tees.

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

...scroll down until you come to "Conella and the Cyclops Sea Serpent of Doom," by John Ringo.

I think this sums it up:
“AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaRGH!"

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

You don't like cyclops sea serpents?

[jessie-c.livejournal.com]

Ringo's ridiculous propensity for purple prose makes me eel. I floundered in despair of my sole. But that's what you get when the author writes a story for the halibut. And he did that on porpoise, too.

[otterb.livejournal.com]

My shirt arrived in Maryland yesterday. Looking forward to wearing it.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[reedrover]

I do apologize for not mentioning - the t-shirts arrived in VA via Priority Mail yesterday! Thank you!

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

No apology necessary. Glad to hear they arrived.

T-Shirt Received (MA)

[greylady.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to confirm that my t-shirt arrived Tuesday.

But MA is close to you. ;)

Re: T-Shirt Received (MA)

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Well. Four hours or so.

Depending on traffic.

Glad the shirt came home.

T-Shirt(Ia)

[mary cay martin (from livejournal.com)]

My shirt arrived on 7-26 in the wilds of western Iowa!I am saving it for my weekly library visit.P.S. I think I have my daughter-in-law hooked on your books and I found a fellow Lee and Miller fan waiting on me at the local Giant Bookstore!

E-book Table of Contents

[(Anonymous)]

Jane Fancher might be able to help you with creating a ToC for your e-books. She's one of the three writers at Closed-Circle (the others are C.J. Cherryh and Lynn Abbey), who are turning their own backlist books into e-books.
Ms.Fancher is the one who does most of the technical conversions and preparations, and occasionally blogs about those. I think it was about a year ago that she had several posts about wrestling with creating good ToCs for her e-books; she did succeed even for double-layered ToCs (e.g. chapters within sections). She's generally very busy, but both she and Ms.Cherryh have stated several times they'd be willing to explain to other authors going through the same process what and how they're doing things.
As I don't know if adding a link will mark this as spam, here's the address written out: www(dot)closed-circle(dot)net, or you could search directly for Jane Fancher.

I'm glad Socks is getting better and everything is going smoothly for a while: may that last as long as possible.
Hanneke

[amm-me.livejournal.com]

T-shirt arrived yesterday in North Texas and bestowed today on happy birthday recipient (two weeks early, I couldn't wait to surprise her).