Eagles Over the Kennebec

The new year is coming right on down the tracks, and that means -- lining up good reading for 2023 and! making travel plans.

Here are a few datapoints to help you plan.

January 3, 2023:  Chicks in Tank Tops publication date.  Edited by Jason Cordova, with brand new stories from Esther Friesner, Kevin Ikenberry, Jody Lynn Nye, Joelle Presby, Marisa Wolf, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and?  More!  No, honestly, there's a whole lot of good reading in this book, and you don't want to miss out.  Available from your favorite bookstore.

January 5, 2023:  Rembrandt's Station by Christie Meierz releases, a happy fact that will be celebrated by a Zoom launch party on January 7.  Steve and I will be there, and hope that you will, too.  Party details here

February 17-19, 2023:  Boskone 60.  GOHs: Nalo Hopkinson, Vito Ngai, Tui T. Sutherland, Dave Clement.  Steve Miller and Sharon Lee will be attending in person after a several year gap.  We cannot yet reveal our schedules, but we can say that we will be reading from Salvage Right, the 100th Lee and Miller collaboration; participating in a few panels, and hosting a kaffeeklatsch.  Hope to see you there.  Here's your link to register

February 28, 2023:  The anniversary re-issue of the classic Liaden Regency, Scout's Progress, with a new and exciting cover by Sam Kennedy, and! a new foreword by the authors, releases from All the Usual Suspects.

Looking a little further down the line -- April 28-30, 2023:  Heliosphere 2023.  GOHs: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, David M. Mattingly.  Registration is open and though it is a thought over four months away, we urge you to register now.  Heliosphere is a small con and depends on its pre-registrations.  Here's your link.

And, going way, way out, now -- July 4, 2023, Salvage Right, the 25th novel set in the Liaden Universe® created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller back in the last century, releases from all of your favorite bookstores.

. . . I think that's enough to get us started.

Here ends the year-end advertising special.

. . .include the celebration of Jasmine Sprite's second full month as Warrior Princess of East Winslow, and! the publication of "The Gift of Music" on the Baen site.

Today's festivities. . .include cleaning the bathroom.

So, the various annual schedules that we keep here at the Cat Farm and Confusion Factory are starting to fill up.

First, we have the Publishing Schedule, which, to the best of my current understanding, looks like this:

January 15. . . . . ."Eleutherios" published to the Baen website
February 5. . . . . .Necessity's Child hardcover (and audio?)
July 2. . . . . . . . . . Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume 1
August 6. . . . . . . Dragonwriter (essays honoring Anne McCaffrey & Pern)
August 27. . . . . .Dragon Ship mass market

Then, we have the Delivery Schedule, to wit:

February 14. . . . . .Carousel Sun
August 15 . . . . . . .Carousel Seas

The Travel Schedule so far as we presently know it:

February 15-17. . . . . .Boskone 50
End of May. . . . . .NYC

And! the all-important Cat Birthdays:

March 1. . . . . .Mozart, 15 years
April 12. . . . . .Socks, 7 years
September 1. . . . . .Scrabble's Approximately Designated 11 years

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Call for Volunteers:  Boskone

Now, asyouknowBob, February is the Silver Anniversary Month of the Liaden Universe®. We're going to be doing some web-celebrating, and we'll also be hosting a party at Boskone.  It is with the latter that we need some help.

Specifically, we need somebody who can go to Costco or the grocery store or whatever works in Boston with a list and money (provided by the authors).  Alternatively, someone local with a car who can drive author(s) to
Costco/grocery/whatever works on Friday afternoon and help with the schlepping.

Also! we need someone to help with the party itself, including possibly occupying a room on the party floor.

If you can help with any of this, please drop Steve a note at kinzelATkorvalDOTcom

Thanks!