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Thanks to our longtime readers and fans we’re finishing up the 25th Anniversary Year of the Liaden Universe® and what a grand year we’ve had. We’ve met and talked with many of you at conventions, the BEA, and on our Trade Secret book tour. Jethri’s adventures, like Theo’s, have brought round lots of commentary, and Trade Secret hit the Bookscan bestseller list at Number 6 — a real accomplishment in these days of movie and TV-tie-in domination of the Science Fiction bestseller lists.

One thing we’ve been surprised by is how many of our readers tell us they’ve been with us (or our characters) since close to the beginning. To help us celebrate Trade Secret and our 25th year of Liaden publication please share with us your first Liaden experience — and how many titles you’ve read since then ...

Still on the fence about acquiring the audio edition of Trade Secret?  Maybe this free sample will help you decide:

This just in!  Laura Haywood-Cory interviews Lee and Miller!  Here’s the link.  Please share it widely.

Lee and Miller PhilCon Schedule (be aware that this is our preliminary schedule, and that changes may be made:

FRIDAY

Fri 7:00 PM in Executive Suite 623 (1 hour)
READING: STEVE MILLER (1648)

SATURDAY

 Sat 12:00 PM in Autograph Table (1 hour)
AUTOGRAPH: SHARON LEE, STEVE MILLER (1678)

Sat 3:00 PM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
“MUNDANE” SCIENCE FICTION (1593)
[Panelists: Gregory Frost (mod), Barbara Krasnoff, Allen Steele,
Margaret Riley, Steve Miller]
Science fiction can be set in the future without all of the
impossible tropes, such as time travel, faster than light travel,
psi powers and galactic empires.  What are some examples, and what
goes into creating it

Sat 4:00 PM in Plaza...

Asyouknowbob, Lee and Miller have been traveling in books for the last few days.  We’ve signed books and shot bulls at four stores so far, from Pandemonium, in Cambridge, Mass, to Toadstool in Nashua, New Hampshire, Barnes and Noble in Burlington, Mass, and Annie’s Bookstop in Worcester, Mass.

We’ve been having a blast, and apparently the nice folks we’ve been visiting with have, too.  Why, they even threw a parade in Boston!  But seriously, look at these happy faces!

So!  Here’s the rest of the schedule:

Monday, November 4, 7-9 pm
Barnes and Noble, 7 Holyoke Street, Holyoke MA

Tuesday, November 5, 7-9 pm
Flights of Fantasy, 381 Sand Creek Road, Albany NY

Wednesday, November 6, 7-9 pm
Book Trader of Hamilton, 2421 Nottingham Way, Mercerville NJ

Thursday, November 7 (be careful! there a...

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be embarking on a book tour in support of the seventeenth novel set in their star-spanning Liaden Universe®, Trade Secret.

The full tour schedule is below.  Please feel free to distribute it wherever it may be of interest.

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The Official Lee and Miller Book Tour Schedule

Thursday, October 31, 7-9 pm
Pandemonium Books and Games, 4 Pleasant Street, Cambridge MA

 Friday, November 1, 7-9 pm
The Toadstool Bookstore, 586 Nashua Street (Lorden Plaza), Milford NH

Saturday, November 2, 2-4 pm
Barnes and Noble, 98 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington MA

Sunday, November 3, 1-4 pm
Annie’s Bookstop of Worcester, 65 James Street, Worcester MA

Monday, November 4, 7-9 pm
Barnes and Noble, 7 Holyoke Street, Holyoke MA

Tuesday, November 5, 7-9 pm
Flights of Fantasy, 381 Sa...

Coming in August:

Dragonwriter (collected essays celebrating the life and writing of Anne McCaffrey) due August 6, 2013 from Smart Pop.

Edited by Todd McCaffrey, this collection features of the field’s big names reflecting on Anne McCaffrey as they knew her. Included is an essay by Sharon and Steve on one of the favorite Liaden fans…

Also coming in August …

The paperback edition of Dragon Ship (mass market) coming August 27, 2013 from Baen …

First Class Pilot Theo Waitley is determined to live down her reputation as a “nexus of violence.” Unfortunately, the universe isn’t cooperating. She has accepted the precarious captaincy of a mysterious — and illegal — self-aware ship aching to find a crew and a purpose...

Although the Kindle and other electronic versions were released a little early our Liaden Universe® Constellation, Volume 1 came out from Baen Books in paper July 2, both through online venues and in stores. Early on it briefly hit the Amazon top 10 of SF anthologies and short stories and has been sighted in stores from coast to coast.

http://www.amazon.com/Liaden-Universe-Constellation-Volume/dp/1451639236/

Here’s your chance to catch up on the stories and adventures you might have missed during the universe’s early years where some of the short stories were first published in hard-to-find genre publications. make sure you have this, and let your friends know about it too!

We’ve been remiss in reporting here the news that both Agent of Change and Fledgling are now available as free downloads from most major sources including Baen Books and Amazon. We’d been thinking about this for some time since so many of our readers and fans have reported that their introduction was a loaned or free copy of a Liaden book. Now you can have copies of these two Liaden Universe® novels for your own ebook or point your ebook-reading friends toward them – for free!

At Baen, find Agent of Change here in the ebook section: http://www.baenebooks.com/p-595-agent-of-change.aspx and you can find Fledgling here for the free book: http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1026-fledgling.aspx

At Amazon.com’s Kindle Store, see Agent of Change at: http://www.amazon...

Today! is the Official Release Day* for Necessity’s Child by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.

Final cover Necessity’s Child
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Art by David B. Mattingly

If you’re new to the Liaden Universe® — or if you’re an old-timer who’s on the fence about buying a “side book” — you may, if you like, read the first nine chapters, free, right here at the Baen webiste.

Necessity’s Child hardcover is available from your favorite bookstore, and also from these fine vendors:

Uncle Hugo’s Science Fiction Bookstore
BN.com
Amazon.com
And! in audiobook format from Audible.com

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*Yes, yes; I know some of you read it months ago.  You may dance, too!  No, really; I insist.