Journeyman

Here's a look at the Skyblaze cover, if my upload works this time -- we're having intermittent connections caused by winds in the cables.... and if that works, maybe more news...


Otherwise, here's the Infodump previously seen in several elsewheres: this is

Liaden Universe® InfoDump No. 86


GENERAL NOTE RE SKYBLAZE AND OTHER SCHEDULES

Steve's cardiomyopathy, diagnosed while he was hospitalized in October for pneumonia, resulted in drug therapy, tests, and monitoring in November and December; in mid-January he an AICD/defibrillator implant to bolster the drug therapies. That procedure and resultant medical limitations (like not being able to lift more than 5 lbs for more than six weeks!) have slowed the production of Skyblaze, which is at the printer being readied now. Steve should be able to begin packing around March 7, about 1 month behind schedule. If you have yet to preorder this chapbook you may still use the pre-order page (ignore original closing date) -- this
page will be now be good through March 1, 2011. http://www.korval.com/skyblaze/

UPCOMING FREE STORY FOR BAEN WEBSITE

That's right, a free Liaden story is due to hit the revitalized Baen homepage at http://baen.com/ come June. Titled "Intelligent Design," the Lee and Miller story deals with. . .well -- hold on until June and read it, so you can see what it is about. In the meantime, be sure to go over to www.baen.com and check out the stories by other Baen authors.


LAKE REGION TV

Sharon and Steve interviewed for Western Maine's cable TV system's program "What Are You Reading" on Saturday, February 19. We'll let you know when -- and where -- in March the show will appear and how to order copies of the interview once it does appear.


WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE LEE AND MILLER?

PORTCON MAINE
June 23-26, 2011
Wyndham Hotel
South Portland, Maine
http://www.portconmaine.com

PortCon Maine is a fan-run anime convention growing into being a general geek-interest convention. Sharon and Steve have previously been panelists at PortCon; this year, they're listed on the Guests of Honor page for this June's event.


RENOVATION, THE 69TH ANNUAL WORLD SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION
August 17-21, 2011
Reno, Nevada
http://www.renovationsf.org/

Sharon and Steve will be panelists. See you there!


THE GREAT NEW ENGLAND STEAMPUNK EXPOSITION
September 16-18, 2011
Courtyard Marriott/Central Massachusetts Expo Center
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
http://www.thegreatnewenglandsteampunkexhibition.com/index.html

Steve and Sharon will be Guests at this Steampunk Extravaganza. Other attending luminaries include but are not limited to Abney Park, Phil and Kaja Foglio, and Jake von Slatt.


CHATTACON 37
January 20-22, 2012
Chattanooga Choo Choo
1400 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
http://www.chattacon.org/

Chattacon is a classic southern convention that Steve went to several times in very early incarnations -- but hasn't been back to for more than 30 years! This year coming, as for the last several, the convention will be held at Chattanooga Choo Choo -- a train station turned into a hotel -- a destination worth a trip all by itself! GOH list includes Steve Miller and Sharon Lee, Laura Anne Gilman, John Picacio - Artist GoH, Rachel Caine - Special Guest, and Mark Van Name - Toastmaster


UPCOMING FROM LEE AND MILLER

Lots of Lee and Miller material coming in 2011, as Baen continues to issue omnibus editions of the Liaden Universe® backlist. Here's what you can expect to see over the next few months in your favorite local bookstore:

Longeye mmp -- March 29
Korval's Game -- May 3
Saltation mmp -- June 28
Ghost Ship -- August 2
The Crystal Variation -- September 6


AND FINALLY -- A TEASE

Watch your email for news of electronic editions of 25 (yep, that's twenty-five!) Lee and Miller chapbooks!



SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE

Uncle Hugo’s: http://www.unclehugo.com/

University Bookstore: http://www.bookstore.washington.edu/services.taf?dept=about&category=loca

Pandemonium Books: http://www.pandemoniumbooks.com/

Missing Volume: http://www.themissingvolume.com/

Borderlands: http://www.borderlands-books.com/

Dream Haven: http://www.dreamhavenbooks.com/

Flights of Fantasy: http://www.fof.net/

Mysterious Galaxy: http://mysteriousgalaxy.booksense.com/

Constellation Books: http://www.constellationbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp

Children’s Book Cellar: http://www.indiebound.org/stores/childrens-book-cellar

All of the above folks do mail order and take want lists.


BLOGS AND OTHER WEBLY THINGS OF NOTE

Theo_Waitley is the discussion group for readers of Fledgling and Saltation: http://community.livejournal.com/theo_waitley/

Where Dragons Rest: http://community.livejournal.com/liaden_readers/

Steve Miller’s blog, Journeyman: http://kinzel.livejournal.com/

Sharon Lee’s blog, Eagles over the Kennebec: http://rolanni.livejournal.com/

SRM Publisher blog: http://srmpublisher.livejournal.com/

Sharon Lee’s “Professional” blog: http://sharonleewriter.com

Facebook Connections — please feel free to add us!

http://facebook.com/kinzel — Steve Miller

http://facebook.com/rolanni — Sharon Lee

Liaden Interest Groups on Facebook

Clan Korval: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38719490864&ref=ts

Friends of Liad: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=16280839259&ref=ts

Flaran chamenthi: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=2213414696&ref=ts

GoodReads

Sharon’s Author Page:http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57980.Sharon_Lee

*Steve’s on Twitter*: http://twitter.com/bechimo

*Sharon’s on Twitter, too*: http://twitter.com/ClanKorval


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Right -- we've set the title and date and ordering info for what is, I guess, technically our annual Liaden  Yule chapbook (or at least a holiday chapbook) -- even though, as Sharon has pointed out elsewhere, because of my recent stay in the hospital it is due to start shipping on Ground Hog's day, 2011 ...  that's at 

http://www.korval.com/skyblaze/   

..... I am surprised to find Google's not showing the Skyblaze pre-order page at number 1 already ... but there, I have high hopes! maybe a search of Sharon Lee Steve Miller Skyblaze will make something happen? Also, if you happen to be on science fiction and writing mailing lists -- tell them that Skyblaze:  Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number Seventeen is on the way. More on that in a minute.

In other news, I'm set for a couple more doctor appointments and tests this month and into next, giving me quite a medical social calendar ... and my landlord at SRM Central has confirmed that we've got a couple more weeks to shift things so I needn't ask for heroic efforts on the part of anyone, myself included, this weekend. I feel better already.

Recently I got a Facebook hello from an acquaintance from long ago who asked what I'd been up, she having been FAFIA for some decades ... and I mentioned that I'd been writing.  She'd had a job and a life -- or maybe three lives, it seemed, and hadn't kept up with folks from way back when, and she had heard that I'd married, and remarried, and she remembered that I was doing newspaper stuff and always said i was going to be a writer but that was about it.  So I mentioned that we'd been writing, and moved to Maine, that I'd had a couple editorial jobs and mostly I'd been writing .... Somehow that wasn't an adequate answer -- a bare-bones "been writing" -- but how do you measure these things? Word count? Book count? Cats lived with?

So, this is some of what I/we have been up to since you lost track of me in the 70s/80s ... you can consider anything below here a ramble, you may stay or you may go, but Library Thing mavens please take note...

Which brings me back to Skyblaze, a chapbook we're doing for fans and readers of the Liaden Universe® ... and this is a little scary.  We've been doing chapbooks regularly since 1995... and there' been a couple of Liaden stories in chapbooks not labeled  with the "Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number XXX'  but number 17, eh?  And ... and ... So far we've done 17 novels together, can that be? Really, but if I put my mind to it, (not necessarily in order)  I think I can recall them all, the novels we've done together.

Look : the Liaden Universe® joint novels
Agent of Change
Conflict of Honors
Local Custom
Scout's Progress
Carpe Diem
Plan B
I Dare
Balance of Trade
Crystal Soldier
Crystal Dragon
Fledgling
Saltation
Ghost Ship (I know, most of you haven't seen this yet, not due out until next year)
(not Liaden list follows)
Sword of Orion
Duainfey
Longeye
Tomorrow Log

As to the "Adventures in the Liaden Universe®" chapbooks, all through SRM Publisher --
Two Tales of Korval    # 1
Fellow Travelers         # 2
Duty Bound                  #3
Certain  Symmetry      #4
Trading in Futures      #5
Changeling                  #6
Loose Cannon            #7
Shadows and Shades #8
Quiet Knives                #9
With Stars Underfoot #10
Necessary Evils         #11
Allies                            #12
Dragon Tide                #13
Eidolon                         #14
Misfits                          #15
Halfling Moon              #16
Skyblaze                       #17  (I know, most of you haven't seen this yet)

... And then of course there were the collections of some of the above...
Liaden Universe® Companion #1 and Liaden Universe® Companion #2, which came out in hardcover and trade and the firts also in mass market ...

(PS, dear Library Thing, can I get my name added to this series listing? Srsly.)

Elsewise there were a few more joint SRM chapbooks since 1995 --

Quiet Magic
Calamity's Child
Master Walk
The Naming of Kinzel
and the SRM trade paper collection of our non-Liaden short work, Double Vision

Oh, yeah, and we also edited Low Port, an anthology for Meisha Merlin, together ...
and then there were Sharon's SRM issued mysteries, Gunshy and Barnburner, and her chapbook Endeavors of Will and my SRM chapbook Chariot To The Stars ...

So, besides life, that's what I've been up to, sort of.

Oh right, and we've just turned in 3 Liaden Universe®  novel proposals, which are still working their way through editorial/agent discussions I guess, and folks should be on the lookout for Sharon Lee's Carousel Tides, which Publishers Weekly quite liked and is available
from many reputable brick-and-mortar and online bookstores right now, as well as Amazon, think of them what you will.

OK, so there, I have been doing something all these years. And now I'm thinking about reissuing all those out of print chapbooks as chapbooks again. That would keep me busy awhile longer, eh?

And so, it has been a long morning thinking about what I have done, and I may go take a nap as part of my busy writing lifestyle.  The cats are calling. Yes, I need a nap.