Liaden UniverseŽ InfoDump #67: Full of Crunchy Goodness
In this Issue:
Still Partying After All These Years
Anniversaries, Part One
SRM Publisher News
Saltation Rule Change
Fledgling News
Ace Reissues
Baen Contracts for New Liaden Novel
Webscriptions to Publish Chapbook and Novel
Anniversaries, Part Two
Liaden Universe(R) Companion Volume One Available in MMP
Meet the Authors
Anniversaries, Part Three & Four
Blogs
Still Partying: Celebrating 20 Years of the Liaden UniverseŽ
In February 1988 Agent of Change first hit the shelves mass market
original from Del Rey Books. Conflict of Honors followed in June of the
same year. And the rest is history!
No, wait. The rest is story, that's it....
Speaking of Anniversaries, Part One
This month marks the first anniversary of Steve's Mad Dash(tm) down to
Meisha Merlin's Georgia headquarters to take some of our books as
payment on royalties owed. We were told at that time that the remaining
books were in danger of being pulped, and that Meisha Merlin would
contact its authors if the books were able to be rescued. We have not
been contacted by Meisha Merlin, though we are in receipt of several
rumors. To the best of our knowledge, all of the Meisha Merlin books
that had been in the warehouse have been destroyed. There may be some in
bookstore or distributor warehouses, or in the inventories of booksellers.
SRM Publisher does have Meisha Merlin editions of Lee and Miller books
available for sale. If you don't see what you need, please inquire at
catalog9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and orders by snail-mail should go to this new address:
SRM Publisher, Ltd.
PO Box 707
Waterville Maine 04903-0707
Speaking of SRM Publisher
Please visit the spiffy new online catalog at
http://www.srmpublisher.com.
SRM has done a top-to-bottom,
sideways-and-backwards redesign in order to make the pages more
navigable and easy to follow. There's still minor sprucing up going on,
but please stop on by!
Saltation Readers Take Note: No Chapter on April 14 and Rule Change
Sharon and Steve have discovered that they can do no more than three
things at once. Therefore, they will be upgrading the back room works at
Saltation over the weekend of April 11 and 12. This upgrade will make
updating the website much easier for the authors. We thank you for your
patience and understanding.
Also! There has been a Rule Change posted on the Saltation front page.
In short form, subscriptions for the trade paperback edition of
Saltation will be capped at 1,000 books (there's a good reason why we're
doing this, but we can't tell you what it is right now. Soon. No,
really.).
There is a meter in place on the front page to help everybody keep track
of how we're doing. Bear in mind that this meter is not updated
instantly, or automagically; it is done by hand, when Sharon has had
time to update the database.
Thank you all for your interest in and support of the Theo Waitley
projects. We stand in awe of your generosity.
Fledgling High Rollers: Take Note
If you were one of the many people who kindly donated $50 or more to the
project and you expected to receive more than one book, please write to
Sharon at fledgling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and tell her this. The default for
donations is one book. If you do write to Sharon, please include: (1)
The name(s) you sent your payment under (really, we have no way of
knowing that Anwar Morningstar is Sara Jones unless you tell us), (2) a
copy of your PayPal receipt, if any, or the date and number of your
check/money order. If you have moved since you ordered, please tell us
that, too.
Please, please, please, for the love of Ghu don't write and ask if you
donated more than $50; there are 1200! (egad!) orders in the Fledgling
database and Sharon really doesn't have time (see "three things at once"
above) to look up every single one. Thanks very much for your help in
this.
Ace Reissues the Liaden UniverseŽ in Mass Market
Ace Books will be reissuing the entire Liaden UniverseŽ series in mass
market paperback, starting in December 2008. The entire schedule is
reproduced below:
Agent of Change -- December 2008
Conflict of Honors -- January 2009
Carpe Diem -- February 2009
Plan B -- June 2009
Local Custom -- July 2009
Scout's Progress -- August 2009
I Dare -- September 2009
Balance of Trade October 2009
Crystal Soldier -- November 2009
Crystal Dragon -- December 2009
....with very little cheating, this is a year of the Liaden UniverseŽ,
with a mini-gap between Carpe and Plan B, to commemorate
the(muchmuchMUCH) longer original gap between those two books.
Baen Contracts for Sequel to Scout's Progress
Toni Weisskopf of Baen Books has contracted with Sharon Lee and Steve
Miller for an as-yet-untitled sequel to Liaden UniverseŽ novel Scout's
Progress. The deal was brokered by Jennifer Jackson of the Maass Agency.
And there was great rejoicing!
Remember! Duainfey, Book One in Lee and Miller's dark fantasy duology,
will be coming out from Baen in September 2008!
Dragon Tide and The Tomorrow Log Coming to Webscriptions
Toni Weisskopf and Arnold Bailey have contracted for the right to
publish SRM chapbook Dragon Tide: Adventures in the Liaden UniverseŽ
Number 13 and Lee and Miller's space opera The Tomorrow Log as
electronic books. Publication dates forthcoming!
Speaking of Anniversaries, Part Two
April first marked the the Thirtieth Anniversary of the merging of the
Lee and Miller households into the Lee-Miller Household, soon thereafter
to become the Lee and Miller Writing Empire! We couldn't have done it
without y'all.
Liaden UniverseŽ Companion, Volume One Available
Sold out in hardcover and trade paper, Liaden UniverseŽ Companion Volume
One is now available as a mass market paperback from the SRM online
catalog (http://srmpublisher.com)
or from a fine independent SF shop
near you.
Meet the Authors: Three Ways to do it
Conventions:
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be at the following conventions:
Denvention, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention -- August 6 - 10
in Denver, Colorado -- http://www.denvention3.org/
Albacon, October 10 - 12 in Albany, New York.-- http://www.albacon.org/
Second Life:
Second Life Book Fair, Book and Publishing Islands (April 26, TBD):
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will participate in yet another in-world
Second Life event, The Second Life Book Fair, with an hour talk on
making a living writing genre fiction.
Also, while in Second Life, visit Chatrez, Second Life home of the
Friends of Liad, the Science Fiction Rangers, and center of a lot of
science fictional activity, including an inworld SRM Publisher shop.
Blogs:
Steve Miller's blog, Journeyman: http://kinzel.livejournal.com/
Sharon Lee's blog, Eagles over the Kennebec:
http://rolanni.livejournal.com
Speaking of Anniversaries, Parts Three and Four
Steve Miller's first professional fiction, though bought by Editor Ted
White in 1975, finally appeared in the May, 1978 issue of Amazing
Science Fiction.
Steve Miller's first ever fiction publication, a short story called "The
Clown," appeared in Junto, the Franklin Senior High School literary
magazine, in Spring, 1968.
Other Blogs of Note
Theo_Waitley, the discussion group for readers of _Fledgling_:
http://community.livejournal.com/theo_waitley/
Where Dragons Rest, a Liaden UniverseŽ readers group:
http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_readers/
Liaden_Spoilers, a discussion group for readers of the Liaden
Universe(R): http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_spoilers/
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