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PLEASE READ ALL OF THE BELOW. Yes, it’s long, but it’s not as long as a novel,
and all of us here like to read novels.
So! Baen has given its authors a homework assignment, which is to poll their
readers — that’s you — for pull-quotes. These will be used for PR purposes.
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Back in the day, we had a deck of quote cards that we used to give out at
conventions, stuff like “If it lifts, we can fly it” or “Other people give
their wives flowers.”
Pull-quotes are short and snappy. Pretty often, they’re dialogue or internal
dialogue, because they lend themselves to short and snappy.
The problem we have, particularly, is that we’re lacking quotes from the newer
books. So, that’s your assignment.
WHAT BAEN PULL-QUOTES LOOK LIKE:
“There are entirely too many pretty iced cakes in this undertaking.”
— Padi yos’Galan, RIBBON DANCE, Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
“Yes, I heard. Forgive my lack of appropriate consternation. Tinsori Light
is not a regular environment. Strange things happen here.”
— Jen Sin yos’Phelium, SALVAGE RIGHT, Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
HOW YOU CAN PLAY:
Post a reply to this entry that contains your quote in the form exampled above.
Yes, we do need the speaker and the title of the book from which the quote has
been excerpted. No, we don’t need the page number.
THERE IS A LIMIT
Please confine yourself to no more than six quotes. Fewer is fine, too. Simply
the fact of 26 novels makes it pretty certain that we’re going to overwhelm
Baen’s system, but it’ll be fun for us — and we hope for you — to read what
other’s found amusing/compelling/sad/true.
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Seignur Veeoni frowned, which wasn’t anything special, Seignur Veeoni being especially fluent in frowns. Tolly thought he was starting to learn the gradations, though, and this one seemed to be a considering frown. - Salvage Right
"Carpe diem. We seize the day. Sometimes the day seizes back!" --Miri Robertson, CARPE DIEM, Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
"I regret, sir, but it would appear that Jen Sin yos'Phelium was merely temporarily misplaced and Tinsori Light has been ... rehabilitated." -- Jeeves, NEOGENESIS, Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
First order of business, she told herself, disarm the norbear. Theo--The Gathering Edge.
THE MAN WHO was not Terrence O'Grady had come quietly. And that, Sam insisted, was clear proof. Terry had never done anything quietly ...
Sam, Juntavas thug
Agent of Change, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
“That’s not flotsam,” she said, her eye following the eerie silhouette. “It’s a shipwreck.” — Captain Theo Whitley, THE GATHERING EDGE, Liaden Universe, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
“Are you bold enough to marry a woman of the Bedel?” — Memit Bedel, ACCEPTING THE LANCE, Liaden Universe, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Various books. The number of High Houses is precisely fifty. And then there is Korval.
Scouts Progress, Cantra Yos Phelium
In an ally, considerations of house, clan, planet, race are insignificant beside two prime questions, which are:
1. Can he shoot?
2. Will he aim at your enemy?
"They're very nice oxy tanks," he said, after a minutes's critical study. "Symmetrical--and of a pleasing color. Full, too. I like that in an oxy tank." -- Clonak ter'Meulen, SCOUT'S PROGRESS, Liaden Universe, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
“Who knew that Elthoria is not meant to Jump like a Scout ship?”
— Jethri Gobelyn ven’Deelin, FAIR TRADE, Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
"I don't know that I've ever wanted you to adopt any more bad habits at all," his lifemate said meditatively. "I'm perfectly satisfied with those that came with."
— Priscilla Delacroix y Mendoza, TRADER'S LEAP, Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
"Shan glared at the empty inbox. It hardly seemed fair or fitting that a circumstance which ought to have afforded real, if fleeting, pleasure should instead generate strong feelings of frustration."
— Shan yos'Galan, ALLIANCE OF EQUALS, Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller