Book signing! Post cards! Publication Schedule! Conventions! Snuff!

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 13:57:48 GMT

Today brings an infrequent professional post.

Ready?

Here we go.

BOOK SIGNING: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be signing the anniversary edition of Agent of Change, and whatever else comes to hand, at Children's Book Cellar, 52 Main Street, Waterville, Maine 04901, on! Friday, November 2, from 7:30-9 pm. Alert readers will note that this is also Fountain Pen Day. Coincidence? I think not!

POST CARDS: If anyone is going to a convention, or is local to a bookstore that is amenable to taking promotional items (ask first, of course), or a reading group, or. . .and would like to distribute postcards and/or bookmarks for the new edition of Agent of Change, and for the Carousel books, please drop me a note at sharonleeATkorvalDOTcom, including your name and address, and how many postcards you would like. I will be delighted to mail them to you.

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:
Agent of Change, 30th Anniversary Edition mass market paperback, cover art by Sam Kennedy, published by Baen Books, available October 30, 2018.

"Command Decision," a brand-new Liaden Universe® story, by Steve Miller and "The Vestals of Midnight," a brand-new Archers Beach story, by Sharon Lee will be published in Release the Virgins, edited by Michael Ventrella, available in November.

"Dark Secrets," a brand-new Liaden Universe® story by Lee and Miller will be published in Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, available in January 2019.

A Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume Four, coming from Baen in Summer 2019. This reprints eight shorter works: 2 novellas, 4 novelettes, 2 short stories from 2016-2018. Titles included are: "Street Cred," "Due Diligence," "Friend of a Friend," "Cutting Corners," "Block Party," "Degrees of Separation," "Excerpts from Two Lives," "Revolutionists."

DEADLINES:
Accepting the Lance, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, the last book in the Five Book Dash, the twenty-second Liaden Universe® novel, is scheduled to be turned in to Baen in January 2019. Please note that this is a turn-in date.

CONVENTIONS: As of this moment in time, Steve and I are planning to attend Boskone 56, February 17-19, 2019.

A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER: Do you know where your copy of the classic Halloween countdown novel by Roger Zelazny is? Steve and I have ours, and we're ready to start reading on September 30.

Here ends the blog post.

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Second Breakfast

Thu, 24 May 2018 15:31:27 GMT

First breakfast was Cheerios and half a banana, around 8 am. Second breakfast is six Ritz cracker with cream cheese, and my second cup of tea.

I have News of sorts, for those of you who have been Patiently Bearing with All The Boring House Stuff, and waiting for us to get back to the Important Stuff.

We here at the Confusion Factory have a number of projects currently on our plates, and while they have deadlines as far-flung as August and January, those are delivery deadlines. Internal deadlines are another thing entirely, because, while Everything May Happen At Once, it has to be handled One Thing At A Time.

So! We have the following projects in hand:

May 26: Finish proofing the Anniversary Edition of Agent of Change. August delivery

May 31: Sharon finishes first draft of as-yet-untitled space opera story for Infinite Stars 2 and passes to Steve. August delivery

June 1: Sharon begins Actual Writing of Accepting the Lance. January 2019 delivery

June 1: Sharon begins proofing Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume 4. Steve begins writing mini-intros for each story. Collaborate on volume intro. August delivery

July 1: Sharon begins writing story for Release the Virgins. Steve begins writing story for Release the Virgins. August delivery?

You will deduce from this list that we are in a position of needing to Beat Feet and keep on beating.

On top of this -- those who are bored with House Stuff may avert your eyes -- we still do need to get the Old Digs ready for sale, and finish settling into the New Digs.

We will therefore be Somewhat Scarce on the Information Superhighway. Email may languish. We will try to surface occasionally to fill y'all in, but work, by which I of course mean, Feeding the Cats, comes first.

Stay safe. Keep busy. Be kind. Take out the trash. Call your mother. Tell the people in your life how much they mean to you. And, always, always. . .

Watch the skies.

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Eagles Over the Kennebec

Book signing! Post cards! Publication Schedule! Conventions! Snuff!

Second Breakfast