Eagles Over the Kennebec

So, this is a test of Auctorial Acuteness.  Can I can all the Stuff in one blog post?  Let's see. . .

1.  You may preorder a signed and/or personalized copy of Accepting the Lance by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, from Uncle Hugo's SF Bookstore.  Here's your link.
2. You may preorder the ebook edition of Accepting the Lance from:  BN and Amazon  (yes, you may also preorder the hardcover edition; don't let's make this any more difficult than it already is, 'K?)
3. Amazon is running a sale on the ebook edition Fortune's Favors: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 28.  During the month of November the price will be $1.49.
4. Brand-new Liaden story "Dark Secrets" will be published in Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers on November 5.  Other authors include:  CJ Cherryh, Tanya Huff, Seanan McGuire, Becky Chambers, Jack Campbell, Mike Shepherd, and more!  Here's your link.
5. The new mass market edition of Conflict of Honors, the second Liaden Universe® novel ever published is now on sale from all the Usual Suspects (yes, there's also an ebook edition).  Cover art by Sam Kennedy.  This is your reminder that (1) books make great gifts, and that this book is an Entry Point to the Liaden Universe®, thereby  perfect place to start your non-Liaden-savvy friends. AND (2) to please review Conflict, if you have already read it.
6. Brand-new Liaden story "A Visit to the Galaxy Ballroom" will be published to Baen.com sometime more or less around November 15.  It will be available on the front page, below the fold (that means "scroll down" to you folks who don't speak Old Newspaper), and will be free for all to read.
7. Accepting the Lance, the 22nd novel of the Liaden Universe® created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, will be published in hardcover, ebook, and audio editions, on December 3, 2019.
8. Trader's Leap, the 23rd novel of the Liaden Universe®, will be published sometime around November or December 2020.  NOTE:  This book takes place on the Dutiful Passage; it is not, repeat, IT IS NOT a Jethri book.  Thank you for your attention to this small but important detail.
9. Steve is working on the next Jethri book as I type.  That book has a mid-2020 deadline, so look for it in 2021.
10. Steve is also lead on the book after #9 above, also a Jethri book, as I understand.  It has a deadline of 2021, so look for it in 2022.
11. After the two Jethri books referenced above are turned in, we will still have two Liaden books under contract.  No, we don't know what they'll be about yet.  No, we don't want suggestions, thank you.
12. Lee and Miller will be attending two conventions in 2020:  Boskone 57, where we will be panelists; and AlbaCon 2020, September 11-13, where we will be Writer Guests of Honor.

. . .I think that's everything.

Offworld Designs has added pre-orders for the Brand! New! 11 oz Liaden mug to their Liaden Universe® Store!

Here's your link.

Yes! You can have your very own tree-and-dragon ceramic mug in time for the winter holidays! I gotta tell you, hot chocolate tasted great in the previous iteration of mugs, and I'm betting?  That it'll taste even better in the new mugs!

You will also find in the Offworld Designs Liaden Universe® store the opportunity to order tree-and-dragon denim, polo, and t-shirts.  Remember that these items are printed/embroidered in batches, so plan ahead for gift-giving.

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In other news, we will tomorrow! entertain the Generator Guys.  They plan to arrive at a Truly UnGhodly Hour -- I believe Seven-Thirty A M was quoted -- and go to it, making lots of noise and turning the electricity on and off.  Steve mentioned that, all this being so, I might want to arrange to work Somewhere Else tomorrow, and so I shall do.

Today turned into a Day Off, by which I mean, no writing/editing/revision happened.  Mundane errands -- including a doctor's visit, and grocery shopping -- took place.  We also snuck in a ride through the rapidly falling fall, and a pleasant lunch at the Flatlanda.  I still need to clean out the cat fountain, while Steve preps the Engine Room for the arrival of the Generator Guys, and then this day is over.  I'll hit the couch with my book, and plan an early night, given the projected Moment of Arrival for our guests.

I did make a discovery today in the doctor's waiting room.  Television is really irritating.  So, OK; I knew that.  But, honestly, three grown women going on and on about whether or not they would permit their husbands/SOs to have a "work wife?"  Please.  I wanted to read my book, obviously, but the volume was such that reading. . .was difficult.

So, I've added to my list of necessities when visiting doctors/hospitals/waiting rooms in general -- earplugs.

As reported elsewhere, yesterday, The Gathering Edge now stands at 39,525 (which is to say it has gained about 4,590 words; I've Outright Removed about 500, and played fast and loose with a bunch of sentences and paragraphs, which is the nature of revision). I have another 20 pages of the Big Narrative Lump to go through and bring up to trim, and then I believe we may proceed in a forwarder direction with style and confidence.

. . .and I think that's all the news that's fit to print.

 Trooper and Sprite, sharing the bookshelf in my office:

For those who have been waiting for BN to make the Nook edition of Dragon in Exile available:  Your patience has been rewarded.  Here's your link to the Nook Edition at BN.

Reminder!  Uncle Hugo's is offering personalized and/or signed copies of A Liaden Universe® Constellation, Volume 3.  There is, as usual, a deadline for preorders of the personalized copies, that being Wednesday, July 1.  Click this link for table of contents, instructions, and an order form.

We -- that's Sharon Lee and Steve Miller -- will be Writer Guests of Honor at RavenCon 2016, joining Vincent diFate as Artist GoH.  RavenCon 2016 will be held April 29-May 1, in Williamsburg, which is very cool.  It's been, like, 50 years since I've been in Williamsburg.   Here's your link.

We -- that's Steve Miller and Sharon Lee -- will ALSO be guests at BaltiCon's 50th Anniversary Convention, to be held May 27-30, 2016, at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore.  Guests of Honor will be George RR Martin, John Picacio, Bill and Gretchen Roper, and Alexandra Duncan.  Also present will be as many of Balticon's past GoHs as can be brought to the event.  Lee and Miller were Writer GoHs at Balticon 37, in 2003.  Here's your link.

Also!  We expect to be able to point you very soon to a source for Liaden themed clothing.  So, yanno:  Watch the skies.

For those who have been following the Epic of Selling the House -- due to events well beyond our control, we have taken our house off the market.  Current plans include having a garage built, to help take some of the pressure off, come winter.  Also, we get to put the Yule lights back up in the kitchen.

After Monday's adventures, we were scheduled to take Kineo in to Charlie's Subaru for a routine 2,000 mile inspection.  Everything was fine, except they had to change an oil filter, and off we went -- to the ocean.  It was a grey and rainy day, and Old Orchard Beach is still not quite open for bidness.  My first choice for lunch -- Pirate's Patio on the beach -- was closed.  Second choice, the newly formulated Duffy's Tavern -- was having its Grand Opening on Friday.  JJ's Two is our usual fallback position, but Steve pointed out that we had never been to The Clambake, in Pine Point, so that's where we ate lunch -- on the glassed-in back porch, right on the marsh.  We were a little behind the usual lunch hour, so practically had the porch to ourselves, and dawdled over lunch and ice tea, watching the birds.  Including a bird neither of us had ever seen before -- a juvenile glossy ibis.  Here are some pictures of a similar bird, spotted at Dunstan's Landing in 2012.

And that's all the news that's fit to print.