SRM Publisher news and other stuff...

[kinzel]

SRM Publisher has been going through a turbulent few days as our salesman from one printer has moved on and the estimate I finally got back for the new salesman there for LUC2 has gone up there by ... a figure I choke on. We also determined that the Lee & Miller team together were counting ... somewhat different stories as being included in the finished book. So, after re-pouring the book at a mad rate the last two days and then fixing all the silly errors introduced by what should be a benign process it appears Liaden Universe® Companion #2 will have ten stories instead of nine. Am hoping tomorrow to get the new specs off to the back-up printers and see what they say... this is cutting it too close by far, alas.

In between pouring, niggling with font sizes, and such we have printed (I amend, Rolanni has printed)... fliers. Also, the newest Liaden Universe PinBeam Quarterly, Volume 5 no.1. Her new printer works a treat...but still has not Linux drivers which is a triple pain. It works with a Mac...but we have none. If you're off to a convention or a SF club meeting in the next while and have room for paper... contact us and we'll try to get some of these fliers out to you.

Meanwhile: eBay Item number: 250146030702 -- 3 Liaden books from del Rey
Meanwhile: eBay Item number: 320139750379 -- Your chance to hang a Donato (poster) on the wall

Almost fell off the deck yesterday while proving that my idea for a new way to keep the squirrels out of the bird food wasn't... practical. Almost got stung after i didn't fall because, despite special screening, the bees have taken over the humming bird feeder.

Local weather is too hot: spotters and weatherfolk are reporting between 88 and 92 degrees within a few miles in any direction, there's a modest breeze but the air quality is teh pitz ....

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[elektra.livejournal.com]

Going to Confluence tomorrow. Can any of the printed matter be sent as a pdf that I can print out here?

[debmats.livejournal.com]

I'll be going to NASFIC

[(Anonymous)]

Burton
from Montreal

Hope there's no slippage in the LUC2 release date due to printer issues. But the auctors should deferred the release date if that will help them found a better printing option.


Do take care. We don't need more auctorial mishaps. It will setback the delivery of Fledging installments and other Liaden works. Unthinkable.

Speaking of Fledging. Did Kinzel & Rolanni have any idea what the cover will look like. Hope the Fledging donations gotten us a striking cover.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Fledgling cover?....

First we need to bring LUC2 out...

then we need to get the holiday chapbook (and cover) together for December...

*then* maybe we think about the Fledgling cover...

and by then we'll have an idea of how much is in the general printing bin and how much is in the "dedicated to cover art" bin... so we'll be able to talk respectfully to artists.

Steve

Even a plain cover is OK

[(Anonymous)]

As a dedicated Fledgling reader, I'd say even a plain cover is OK - it will be fun to see it in book form when it's done moving from the serial chapters to the final story.

Cover art is nice, but having it in my library will be even better...

B. O'Brien

Re: having it in my library will be even better...

[joythree.livejournal.com]

I agree!

And if you need more $ for my pre-ordered copy of LUC2, no problem. Just let me know.

Joy