So, there’s a new thing we’re taking part in, called First Chapter Friday, in which authors post the first chapter of one of their novels in a Clever Plot to get readers interested enough to buy the rest of the book. Steve and I decided to post the first chapter of Fledgling as our first […]
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First Chapter Friday: Agent of Change
It’s Friday again, and you know what that means, right? Right! Time for another free first chapter to whet your appetite for more. This week, we decided to bring you the first chapter — the very first chapter EVER, written in 1984, for the book titled Agent of Change, published in 1988 by Del Rey, […]
First Chapter Friday: Crystal Soldier
Full disclosure: Crystal Soldier is not the first book in the Liaden Universe®, mostly because, err, it takes place in a Whole ‘Nother Universe — a universe that is not only at war, but is losing the war. It is the first book of a duology (the second book, despite Sharon’s insistence that she would […]
First Chapter Friday: Scout’s Progress
So, cast your mind back — ‘way back to the last decade of the 20th century, by which I mean late 1992 and continuing into late-ish 1993. Our third novel, Carpe Diem, had been published in October 1989, and Del Rey had cut us lose for having “disappointing sales,” which was Del Rey’s Thing back […]
First Chapter Friday: Balance of Trade
The end of the last century was a pretty good time for the Lee & Miller writing team. We had Liaden books on the way, we were being courted by anthologies, our story A Matter of Dreams was set for an illustrated guest appearance in Colleen Doran’s A Distant Soil (#27) and we were back […]
First Chapter Friday: Carpe Diem
After a book or two Sharon and I were surprised that we we’re getting noticed even if our books were coming out as original paperbacks rather than starting in the hardcover lists as we do now.It was fun, if not enriching, to see things like this in print: “Val Con and Miri are the most […]