Today brings an infrequent professional post.
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Here we go.
BOOK SIGNING: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be signing the anniversary edition of Agent of Change, and whatever else comes to hand, at Children’s Book Cellar, 52 Main Street, Waterville, Maine 04901, on! Friday, November 2, from 7:30-9 pm. Alert readers will note that this is also Fountain Pen Day. Coincidence? I think not!
POST CARDS: If anyone is going to a convention, or is local to a bookstore that is amenable to taking promotional items (ask first, of course), or a reading group, or. . .and would like to distribute postcards and/or bookmarks for the new edition of Agent of Change, and for the Carousel books, please drop me a note at sharonleeATkorvalDOTcom, including your name and address, and how many postcards you would like. I will be delighted to mail them to you.
PUBLICATION SCHEDULE:
Agent of Change, 30th Anniversary Edition mass market paperback, cover art by Sam Kennedy, published by Baen Books, available October 30, 2018.
“Command Decision,” a brand-new Liaden Universe® story, by Steve Miller and “The Vestals of Midnight,” a brand-new Archers Beach story, by Sharon Lee will be published in Release the Virgins, edited by Michael Ventrella, available in November.
“Dark Secrets,” a brand-new Liaden Universe® story by Lee and Miller will be published in Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers, edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, available in January 2019.
A Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume Four, coming from Baen in Summer 2019. This reprints eight shorter works: 2 novellas, 4 novelettes, 2 short stories from 2016-2018. Titles included are: “Street Cred,” “Due Diligence,” “Friend of a Friend,” “Cutting Corners,” “Block Party,” “Degrees of Separation,” “Excerpts from Two Lives,” “Revolutionists.”
DEADLINES:
Accepting the Lance, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, the last book in the Five Book Dash, the twenty-second Liaden Universe® novel, is scheduled to be turned in to Baen in January 2019. Please note that this is a turn-in date.
CONVENTIONS: As of this moment in time, Steve and I are planning to attend Boskone 56, February 17-19, 2019.
A NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER: Do you know where your copy of the classic Halloween countdown novel by Roger Zelazny is? Steve and I have ours, and we’re ready to start reading on September 30.
Here ends the blog post.
You have me scratching my hairless head with the Zelazny comment. Have to admit I used to love his work, but have not cracked one of his books in over a decade. Now, where did I store those old Ballentine paperbacks?