Today, from 12 noon until 2 pm EDT, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (that’s us!) will be answering all your best questions at Reddit!

We’ve never done this before, but don’t worry, we’ve brought in expert help:

“Cutting Corners,” by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now up and ready for you — yes, you! — to read at baen.com.

The story starts on the first page, and then jumps.  Feel free to spread the word of “Cutting Corners” Across the Length and Breadth of the Internets.  And, also?

Enjoy.

Here’s the link.

Asyouknowbob, The Gathering Edge, twentieth novel in the Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, owner-operators, will be released in hardcover on May 2.  Naturally, we’re very excited (it’s not true what they tell you that, when you’re an Old and Sober Author you won’t get excited when a new book comes out).  In fact, we’re so excited, we want to share some of that energy around.

So! We’re inviting you all — yes, you, too! — to a pre-release party A(sk) M(e) A(nything) on Reddit, Monday, May 1, at 12 noon Eastern.

You don’t need a Reddit account to hang out and read the questions and answers, but you will need an account if you want to participate in the AMA.  If you want to get an account now, just, yanno, in case, just go here; it doesn’t cost a thing and it’s quick and easy ...

Neogenesis cover art by David B. Mattingly

Neogenesis, the twenty-first novel in the Liaden Universe®, created Some Time Back by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, will be published in January 2018.

Here’s the blurb:

Menace from Back Space Looming out of the Dust of Time

The Complex Logic Laws were the result of a war waged hundreds of years in the past, when two human powers threw massive AI navies at each other and nearly annihilated themselves.  Being human, they blamed their tools for this near miss; destroyed what was left of the sentient ships, and made it illegal to be, manufacture, or shelter an independent logic.

Strangely, however, the Free Ships and other AIs did not turn themselves in or suicide, they merely became wary of humans, and stayed under their scans...

Change Management:  Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 23, has been uploaded and is publishing (in the case of Amazon, has published) to Amazon, Baen ebooks, BN/Nook, Kobo, iBooks, 24Symbols, Page Foundry, Scribd, and Tolino, so expect to be able to purchase it from those vendors within the next 72 hours or so.

Here’s the blurb for the book:

Times are perilous, violence rife, and the future uncertain. Success and the survival of all you hold dear may hinge on how you manage change.

Some people advise that we “Embrace Change!” Other people realize that change has edges, and if you embrace it the wrong way, it may feel a lot more like a knife than a bromide when it touches your guts.

The Gathering Edge, the twentieth novel-length Adventure in the Liaden Universe®, and! the direct sequel to Dragon Ship, which makes it the fifth book in the Theo Waitley arc —

Is now available as an eArc, directly from Baen.

Here’s your link

I see by my inbox that we have now entered SciFi Silly Season.  Here, in one handy list, are all eligible Lee and Miller, and Lee, works, published in 2016.

Alliance of Equals, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, novel, Baen Books, July 2016
“Wise Child,” Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, novelette, Baen.com, June 2016
“Friend of a Friend,” Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, novelette, Sleeping with the Enemy, Pinbeam Books, July 2016
“Shame the Devil,” Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, short story, Alien Artifacts, Zombies Need Brains, August 2016

“The Wolf’s Bride,” Sharon Lee, novelette, Splinter Universe, January 2016
“Will-o’-the-wisp,” Sharon Lee, short story, Splinter Universe, January 2016

And! Lest I forget — which I almost did:  Lee and Miller’s long-running Liaden Universe® is eligible for the Best ...

The Gathering Edge
Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
©2016 by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

Prologue
Orbital Aid 370

“Move.”

The radioed message from Stost was clear, while sound from outside their suits was muddied and muffled. There was still atmosphere here, for what that was worth. There were also odd vibrations, and strange sounds too, here in the crew quarter zone, the most worrisome being a continuous scratch-scratch-scratch. It was best, Chernak assured herself, not to think too closely on it. After all, they were just passing through.

There was another sound — familiar, even companionable — the sound of breathing not her own, coming through her headset. She concentrated on that, even as she observed the passage they moved down, alert for threats, for traps, for —

The way ahead was b...

The winner of the seventh and last available MP3 edition of Liaden Universe® novel Dragon in Exile by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, narrated by Kevin T. Collins is!

Number 36, Sheryl Kolar of Greater Cleveland

Number 36 prevailed against a field of 86.  We will release the Sekrit Identity if we receive permission to do so.

Congratulations! to Sheryl Kolar and all the winners!

Thanks very much to everyone who took part in the game!