Reminder, Explanation, Tour Schedule Update

[rolanni]

Frequent auditors of this journal will recall that Lee and Miller will be embarking in the near future on a book tour.  The complete tour schedule is reproduced at the end of this blog entry, for your convenience.

PLEASE NOTE that we have added one more stop, in Maine, at the end of the tour.  We'll be signing, reading, talking and doing who knows what other crazy things at Books-a-Million on Sunday, November 17, from 2-4 p.m.

Please feel free to distribute the schedule below wherever it may be of interest.

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I'd like to take just a moment to clarify something about the book tour.  The tour is in support of a few things: Lee & Miller, the Liaden Universe®, Baen -- but it is in Direct Support of Trade Secret, the 17th novel in the Liaden Universe® which, yes, is scheduled to be "published" on November 5.

There seems to be a little bit of confusion regarding this word "published,"  which more correctly ought to be rendered, "available in bookstores."

See, the books have already been "published," which in this usage means "printed."  We know this because Steve and I received our authors' copies a week or so ago.  This means that, even now, there are Trade Secrets in the S&S warehouse, and Trade Secrets on their way to distributors, and Trade Secrets directly on their way to bookstores. . .

. . .and Trade Secrets on their way, via the Sekrit Publicist Underground, directly to all of the stores where we will be signing, and! to the nice folks who will be escorting us during the various stages of our tour.

Which is the long way of saying that, Yes, Trade Secret will be on hand at our signings -- even those signings that happen before November 5 -- and if you come to one of our signings, you will be able to buy a book and see us sign it for you in front of your very eyes.

Which, you gotta admit, is kind of cool.

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One more reminder -- "Out of True," a Liaden Universe® short story will be available to read for! free! on the Baen front page, starting. . .call it mid-day, Eastern Daylight Time, on Tuesday, October 15.  You will have to scroll down a bit (fiction on the Baen front page is published, as we used to say in the newspaper biz, "below the fold") to find it.

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The Official Lee and Miller Book Tour Schedule

Thursday, October 31, 7-9 pm
Pandemonium Books and Games, 4 Pleasant Street, Cambridge MA

Friday, November 1, 7-9 pm
The Toadstool Bookstore, 586 Nashua Street (Lorden Plaza), Milford NH

Saturday, November 2, 2-4 pm
Barnes and Noble, 98 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington MA

Sunday, November 3, 1-4 pm
Annie's Bookstop of Worcester, 65 James Street, Worcester MA

Monday, November 4, 7-9 pm
Barnes and Noble, 7 Holyoke Street, Holyoke MA

Tuesday, November 5, 7-9 pm
Flights of Fantasy, 381 Sand Creek Road, Albany NY

Wednesday, November 6, 7-9 pm
Book Trader of Hamilton, 2421 Nottingham Way, Mercerville NJ

Thursday, November 7 (be careful! there are two events today)

Noon-2 pm :
University of Pennsylvania Bookstore, 3601 Walnut at 36th Street, Philadelphia

7-9 pm:
Chester County Book Company, 967 Paoli Pike, West Chester PA

Friday, November 8 -- Sunday, November 10
PhilCon, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Cherry Hill, NJ  

Sunday, November 17, 2-4 p.m.
Books-a-Million, South Portland, Maine

#SFWAPro

Comments

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Just a wonderment. I've noticed hashtags showing up here and there in blog posts -- e.g. #SFWAPro -- and wondered if this is carryover from twittering, cross-talk amongst the indexing programs, or some other intrusion from the digital world? In other words, does having a #SFWAPro in your blog post help cross-reference this post somewhere? I don't see it in the tag cloud... surely this is too long for a twitter posting?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The #SFWAPro hashtag at the end of some blog posts in theory insures that the marked post goes into an Aggregator and is then sorted into the SFWA Authors Twitter Feed, using the title, I guess, as the Tweet.

I'm guessing because the Aggregator does not like the way the host at sharonleewriter.com -- which is where the original posts hang -- Does Things, and so I am left alone in the wilderness.

I, however, keep hashtagging, hoping that one day The Blog With No Name and the Aggregator will kiss and make up. It's not, you understand, a very strong hope, though I do think it would be amusing for all the sharonleewriter #SFWAPro-tagged entries to enter the SFWA Author Twitter feed at once, thereby raising a hue-and-cry. But, as we all know, I live for Black Humor.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thanks for the info. Digging around a little, I found this http://www.sfwa.org/2010/05/faqs/ which explains the program. They suggest that if your blog and their aggregator are arguing, you try sticking the hashtag in the subject line? So this is kind of the auto-tweet, spreading goodness and light even further than ever before...