January has been a busy month for Friends of Liad, with Neogenesis debuting strongly in hardback (also available as an audiobook and in a kindle edition) — including reaching the Bookscan bestseller lists — after the January 2 release from Baen and then the new Lee and Miller novella Degrees of Separation, out from Pinbeam, spending several days at #2 on Amazon’s rankings —
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > Two hours or more (65-100 pages) > Science Fiction & Fantasy
The authors are currently hard at work on the still unnamed next Liaden hardcover, due to be turned in this spring after their visit to Memphis as Guests of Honor at MidSouthCon March 9-11 .
Later this year plans are for Lee & Miller to travel to WorldCon — that’s WorldCon 76, in San Jose, CA, August 16-20th.
Read MoreThis is an Actual Professional Announcement, for those who want to acquire a signed copy of the 30th Anniversary Edition of Agent of Change.
Steve and I will be signing at Childrens Book Cellar in Waterville on November 2 (from 7:30-9 pm, or until the crowd is satisfied, whichever comes first).
If you would like a signed book, but cannot attend the booksigning, you may send an email before November 2 to Ellen Richmond at kidsbookscellarATmyfairpointDOTnet, with “Lee and Miller” in the subject line. In the body of the letter let Ellen know how many books you want, your snail address, and any personalization request you may have. She will contact you for further necessary information.
Here ends the Actual Professional Announcement.
On the first Liaden Universe® front we’re finishing up a book — Accepting the Lance — to be turned in to Baen by the end of the month, with publication currently set for the end of the year. Watch for more news here or on Facebook.
What’s coming sooner than Accepting the Lance? To begin with, there’s Neogenesis in mass market paper. Last year’s hardback Liaden novel spent 2 months on the Locus Bestseller list and hits stores and sites on March 26, 2019. If you’ve been waiting for the small-size, it is coming your way: https://www.amazon.com/Neogenesis-Liaden-Universe%C2%AE-Sharon-Lee/dp/1481483927
Not long after Neogenesis an in demand collection arrives — Liaden Universe® Constellation #4, due out from Baen in J...
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Sharon posted my reading of “A Choice of Weapons” on the Patreon pages at: https://www.patreon.com/leeandmiller/posts . This will be available to only for our Patreon supporters until after we get back from Boskone and will be unlocked for the general public around February 20. Not yet a Patreon supporter?We’ve been sharing readings there for awhile, see the list of posts and find a number of other readings in the “Splinter Universe Live” series … Also, let me know which -non-novel-length story you would like to hear us read next. I’m hoping to get another together before Boskone.
Those following along at home will recall that some Kindle users, after downloading Fortune’s Favors, found that the Kindle had helpfully opened the book to “Interludes,” which those readers quite reasonably understood to be the first chapter of the book, and so started reading.
In fact, “Interludes” is. . .a series of interludes that take place between Chapter One and Two*. I could not replicate this error, either on my own Kindle app or on Amazon’s publishing tool on-site. I therefore wrote to Amazon, asking them to fix the error which they had clearly generated.
I have this morning received Amazon’s reply, which I reproduce below in its entirety.
Hello Sharon,
I hope this email finds you well!
I checked the uploaded and converted content files of your eBook and can
confirm t...Read More Getcher Red Hot Signed Copies of Liaden Universe® Constellation IV!
Liaden Universe® Constellation IV will be published on June 3.
You may now pre-order signed and/or personalized copies of Liaden
Universe® Constellation IV from Uncle Hugo’s SF Bookstore.
For the purposes of this discussion “signed” means “the authors will
write their names on the half-title.” “Personalized” means “the authors
will write their names on the half-title *and* a short inscription of
your choice.” Note: The authors reserve the right to refuse a
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News for those who pre-ordered signed and/or personalized copies of Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume Four from Uncle Hugo’s.
UPS tells us that five cases of this title will land on our doorstep tomorrow, Wednesday, May 29, sometime before 8 pm.
Steve and I will sign and/or personalize these books as quickly as we can without breaking a leg, or a wrist.
When we have finished signing the books, we will put them on a UPS truck to Minneapolis, so the Uncle can take care of the hard part of this transaction: charging credit cards, and packing and shipping books.
We are at this point shooting for Friday as the day we will place the five cases of books on the UPS truck. We would like that; it’s our goal. But it may come about that the books will not leave us until Monday...
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