First, a history lesson.

In 1999, Meisha Merlin published Plan B, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, effectively bringing the authors and their Liaden Universe® back from the dead.

This is not a thing that happens often, and Steve immediately recognized it as an opportunity Not To Be Wasted.  We had already been keeping in touch with our readers through Liaden Universe® listserves — the Friends of Liad were born there.  Steve had started SRM Publisher, providing chapbooks of Liaden stories to an unsuspecting world.  And Meisha Merlin provided the opportunity for us to attend science fiction conventions.

We attended a lot of science fiction conventions, a good number of them as Writer Guests of Honor...

IN THIS ISSUE:
1 Ur Sid to join Lee and Miller Archive at Texas A&M
2 Plan B anniversary edition
3 Last Train Outta Kepler-283c
4 Sea Wrack and Changewinds
5 Ribbon Dance Audiobook
6 Diviner’s Bow
7 The Small Print: Sites of Interest, Blogs & Other Webly Things of Note, Facebook Connections, Xitter, Bluesky
8 DISCLAIMER

UR SID TO JOIN LEE-MILLER ARCHIVE AT TEXAS A&M
Longtime FoL will recall Ur Sid, an eight-inch tall Teddy bear, dressed in a Scout uniform. Ur Sid attended the conventions that Steve and Sharon couldn’t make, hobnobbing with the Famous, and, like every good fan, collecting buttons and memorabilia.

The authors would occasionally meet Ur Sid at worldcons, and were always happy to see him...

Frequent auditors of this blog will recall that Liaden Universe® Ambassador Plenipotentiary Ur Sid had recently accepted a new role as guardian of the Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Collection at the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives at Texas A&M University.

Since the Bumpy Passage fell out of use many years ago, I created a travel pod so that Ur Sid could make his journey in the style to which he had become accustomed, and packed him carefully in a box.  He accompanied nine other boxes containing the Full Run of Lee-and-Miller, Lee, and Miller published works.

Well, today Ur Sid arrived at his new post.  Jeremy Brett, Curator of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection has kindly sent along photographs of this momentous arrival, which are posted below.

Right now, Ur Sid is sh...

For those who pay attention to such things, Diviner’s Bow has been turned in to Baen, slightly ahead of the (renegotiated) deadline.

Diviner’s Bow
A Novel of the Liaden Universe®
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
October 27, 2024
Approximately 130,600 words/131,700 with glossaryArt by David Mattingly

Publication date, hardcover and ebook:  April 1, 2025