Two of the lily variety...

[kinzel]

and some of the flowers in the cat garden... and a cat in the window, were up for photography today, outtakes of which I don't have time to put online today... maybe later. I'm trying to get used to my new camera before DragonCon. Which reminds me of several emails I need to send... sigh.

Meanwhile, we've going to be closing pre-orders on the Liaden Universe(R) Companion hardcover next week if they don't sell out before then; looks like I should have been brave and ordered 500 instead of 300. Live and learn... on the other hand, we still have more than 900 unclaimed trade paper copies, so people can get their books....

I roughed out a Liaden Universe Infodump this morning, which rolanni is going over and will post soon. Watch for it.

Oh yeah, the day is very bright and very blue. It would be a good day to be at the ocean. Next year maybe we can get a week or two in -- one in Maine, one in Canada. That would be good.

Comments

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

[waves] Hi, I'm a reader of yours - a new one, having finally gotten friends to explain where you start with this whole Liaden thing they kept going on about and I only ever encountered as mysterious and confusing piles of chapbooks at cons. So now I've gone through the basic books and am waiting to get my hands on the chapbooks. I ordered a hardcover - we'd been planning to put it off, but kd5mdk warned us you were getting low. I'm glad to have gotten it in hardcover, as I give regular rants on why trade paperbacks are the worst of both worlds. I'm glad he pointed me at yours and rolanni's journals.

Anyway, nice to meet you, thanks for the books. My spouse selenite is reading them now.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Glad you found us -- and glad you found out that things were getting low!

Hope you're all feeling better at yuor house...

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

I intend to claim one of those trade paperbacks, as soon as I either straighten out the whole I-need-to-move-ASAP thing, or it becomes obvious that it will be delivered before I actually move. Needing to move plays havoc with advance ordering anything.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Since we're all somewhat at the mercy of the printing process -- our job is in a queue and then the shipping will also depend on a queue of sorts -- you may as well wait comfortably until you're sure what's up. The expected supply of trade paperbacks far exceeds the expected supply of hardbacks.