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Steve Miller and Sharon Lee will be attending WorldCon virtually this year.

Our combined schedule is below.  We are opening the con and closing it — a signal honor.  Please note that readings are 40 minutes.

Hope to see you there!

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

Space/Time: Airmeet 1/Thursday, September 1, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM CDT
Title: Improbable Research Dramatic Readings
Description: Most people never read actual scientific research papers. The topics can seem obscure, the writing abstruse, stilted, fanatically technical. But some papers have parts rivaling the best theatrical scripts...

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be signing books in person at the following venues on the dates shown:

Saturday, August 27 1-3 pm
Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop
158 Main St.
Damariscotta, ME 04543

Saturday, September 3 11 am-1 pm
Sherman’s Book Shop
65 Topsham Fair Mall
Topsham, ME 04086

“The Last Train to Clarkesville,” Lee and Miller’s 101st collaboration, has been submitted.  This is something unique, in that it is a Liaden Universe® western.

More details available on receipt on editor’s acceptance.

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have just submitted their one hundredth collaborative effort, novel SALVAGE RIGHT, to Toni Weisskopf, at Baen Books.

Proof:

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be attending ChiCon8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Chicago, August 31-September 4. The selection of panelists is on-going.  The Final Lee and Miller Schedule will be reported here, as soon as there is on.

Planning is underway for a Friends of Liad breakfast.  News of that event will also be posted here as soon as there is any.

Lee and Miller will be Writer Guests of Honor at Heliosphere, April 28-30 in Piscataway NJ, in their first in-person GOH gig since MidSouthCon in 2018. David Mattingly will be Artist Guest of Honor.

Let it be known that yesterday’s Writers’ Day Off” trip to New Hampshire was not only occasion for a leisurely drive to the Plymouth, NH environs but also a well-researched opportunity to meet with and adopt to our household one 21 month old Maine Coon cat from Kelimcoons, the same home that brought us Trooper, Sprite, and Belle. Currently going by the call-name Firefly, she is slated to assume the vacant fourth cat position.

Our new young friend was remarkably calm during her one hundred and fifty mile drive across state lines to the Cat Farm, only complaining once or twice – as who would not? – during several unexpected turn-and-bump situations.

On arrival at the Cat Farm, Firefly took up overnight residency in the second bathroom in order to recoup her energy...