Journeyman

Depending on which social media you favor, some or all of the following information will/may be a repeat -- or it may not, depending on how closely you follow things. This all anout Liaden Universe things, and particularly (or mostly) Ghost Ship

At 8:02 and 8:03 this evening, BN.com was listing Ghost Ship at #482 (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghost-ship-sharon-lee/1101116706?ean=9781439134559&itm=1&usri=ghost%2bship ) if the link works...

and Amazon was listing it at #1776. (http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Ship-Liaden-Universe-Sharon/dp/1439134553/ref=br_lf_m_1000535991_1_8_img?ie=UTF8&s=books&pf_rd_p=1314064082&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000535991&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1M1TPA0CGMM3CRA30C28)

Meanwhile, Don Blyly at Uncle Hugos has posted a new Bestseller List for July -- in which Lee & Miller books dominate the trade paper size books, and where Ghost Ship is #1 .. .there are some other Lee & Miller sightings available: http://unclehugo-edgar.livejournal.com/208678.html

And, for kickers this afternoon a Friend of Liad pointed this out -- http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=br_lf_m_1000535991_grlink_6?ie=UTF8&plgroup=6&docId=1000535991 which is Amazon selecting Ghost Ship for their Fall Book Preview ...

We're slowly pulling things together for WorldCon ... and we also heard this afternoon that we've got a royalty check due in on some of out electronic books .... which will almost exactly cover the train fare to Reno!

And now, all I have to do is let all the good news go, and work with Theo awhile.

I have a note here from Don Blyly at Uncle Hugo's: about 1/3 of the pre-pledging folks have visited http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-lee-miller.php to make their actual order. Not bad for the first 48 hours. If you want to do this and didn't pre-pledge, that's OK. Friends from Franklin High and UMBC and BSFS, you can get in on the act, too, if you like. The sooner this happens, the better -- we might get the actual pre-orders to the pledge level of 525 or higher. Pls share this news. Repeat -- pls twitter and elsewise share this news with your fellow readers. TY.

Meanwhile, we took much of the day off yesterday, running to Belfast to look at a potential housing opportunity there after a Waterville breakfast and a site inspection on a couple houses locally that ... just .... will .... not... do. Is it only in Waterville that "circa-1950" and "Modern" are the same thing?

Saturday I turned some "What am I going to do with this?" food items into a meal -- I had several small containers of mixed fruit in heavy syrup (accidentally purchased from a slot otherwise full of light-syrup peaches, but heck they were here so I used them) that I threw into a pan with the fresh raw chicken breast nuggets I'd found on sale on Friday, added some water chestnuts for crunch, a small handful of lentils, some home-cut tomato chunks from the day before along with home-cut frozen onions and orange sweet peppers ... mixed in some olive oil and a couple cups of water and several heaping tablespoons of jar-garlic ... so not really a stir fry though they were considered stir-fry chunks, and not a soup, though there were soupish ingredients. Cooked them all together for about a half hour, stirring a lot and listening to good music. Had for dinner Saturday along with home-baked bread and will have some for lunch today, probably with whole-wheat sourdough bread from Barrels.

Sharon worked on E-book stuff (as did I) on Saturday, and hers worked to the point that even after our gallivanting about yesterday she was able to upload the Kindle and Nook versions to their respective sites in hopes that they'll go live RSN. It appears that Apple versions will come, but they'll be delayed by Apple's proprietary systems -- in theory Appleholics who don't wish to wait will be able to use the Nook versions on a Nook, and probably with Calibre, for that matter, and many Android readers.

It rains this morning, and I have to get the exercise therapy this afternoon. Oh yeah, am still working on backed up SRM orders.

And PS -- Ghost Ship is above the 10,000 ranking mark today at amazon, and if you can't see your way clear to a signed copy from Uncle Hugo's there's time to order through Sharon's special amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1439134553/blookangarue/107-2494529-4543737

Thx for reading this -- and what're you guys up to this Monday?

Here, as requested by many, more information about Ghost Ship. Please understand that entire plot lines are left out of this: we needed to do it in under 200 words, and without the kicker it is 199.  Reiterating something mentioned earlier today elsewhere -- due on the shelves around WorldCon -- Renovation -- 2011. That'd be August of next year, for those who don't keep con fan time.

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In the direct sequel to  I Dare and Saltation it  turns out:
 
You haven't arrived until they send the assassins –
 
Theo Waitley's not a kid anymore. Branded a “nexus of violence” before her first solo commercial piloting gig, she now wears a First Class pilot's jacket, has a job offer from Korval, carries multiple weapons, and may wear a Tree-and-Dragon pin, if she dares. Everyone she meets thinks she's dangerous, and most of them approve …
 
But that's only part of the problem – her “quiet academic” father has been exposed as a ship-killing Master Pilot with a secret life, and her new-found brother is an expert at hand-to-hand death dealing. She's the last hope of survival for her mortally wounded problem lover, if only she can make peace with the self-willed ship that's been stalking her across space. Then, when the assassins teach her that even the most competent pilot needs backup on some ports, the most able copilot she can find is a retired Juntavas sector Boss who knew her father's oddly undead first wife well.
 
So, things are getting complicated because she's her father's daughter; the enemy knows it, and the assassins mean business.
 
Oh yeah, and her mother wants to talk to her, too.

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Some plans for AlbaCon are coming together, some are not. Will see some of you there, I hope!