Sneak Preview of the anniversary edition of Lee and Miller’s I Dare, fifth installment in the Agent of Change arc.  This mass market edition comes will be coming out in December 2025.  Art by Sam Kennedy.

The 27th novel set in the star-spanning Liaden Universe® created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, third in the Padi yos’Galan internal arc, Diviner’s Bow riffs on classic Lee-and-Miller themes of what does it mean to be human, and the proposition that we’re all better when we help each other.

A world divided cannot stand. A people divided cannot thrive.

The Oracle has Seen the end of Civilization — and of the Haosa. While well-meaning people struggle to implement change that might, at least, mitigate a disaster, others are looking toward the profit they can make from the end of the world.

And the lives of two small children may be the threads that bind the future — or unravels it.

The Padi yos’Galan arc: Trader’s Leap, Ribbon Dance, Diviner’s Bow.

All three available from your favorite ven...

FRIDAY
7:30PM Opening Ceremonies, Maryland Ballroom  Duration: 1:00
Welcome our Guests of Honor and Special Guests, applaud the Compton Crook and Heinlein Awards, and honor those we’ve lost since we were last able to meet in person.

SATURDAY
8:45AM Friends of Liad Breakfast in the hotel dining room

11:30AM Interview, Maryland Ballroom Duration: 1:00
Sharon Lee, Tom Schaad

2:30PM Speculative Poetry Open Mic and Contest Winners Reading, Federal Hill Duration: 2:00
The winners of the Steve Miller BSFS Annual Poetry Contest will also read their winning poems. Sharon Lee will present the awards.  Come read your speculative poetry! Share what you’ve been working on.
Miguel O. Mitchell, PhD, Sharon Lee

7:00PM Making Readers Care About Your Characters, Gibson, Duration: 01:00
Plotting is awesome...

Click the link and you may see and hear Sharon’s speech at BaltiCon 59’s Opening Ceremonies.

The Heinlein Award: a plaque, two lapel pins, and a medallion.

Click the link to see and hear JR Handley, Jena Ray, and Sharon Lee talk about All The Things!

I promised to post this before I left for BaltiCon, so that people could read what I intended to say.

It’s worth noting here, for those of you who may someday be called upon to give a speech before a live audience, up on the stage, that, unless your eyes are much better than mine (not impossible), you won’t be able to read your speech.  Memorize the Key Points.  Really.  It will save you some adrenaline.

So, here you are — 630ish words.  Stage Directions in CAPS.

Sharon Lee Acceptance Speech, Heinlein Award, May 23, 2025

It’s traditional on occasions like this to ask the people you meet, “What was YOUR first Balticon?”

Well. Some of you may not know this, but I’m FROM Baltimore, and for many years, BaltiCon was my Home Convention.

But my FIRST BaltiCon – that was Balticon TEN – in 1976...