Amazonian updates at half-past Rolanni’s first cup of coffee. . .
The kindle edition of The Crystal Variation is this morning not for sale at Amazon. If you, as another Friend of Liad did, need to read the Crystal books right now on your kindle, please purchase the omnibus from Baen. Here’s your link.
Courier Run, Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 18 is on sale in the Kindle Store, but God She knows which edition it is they’re selling (the Warning Triangle is still present on the page, warning the unwary of TYPOS), or if they’ll continue selling the book in any edition at all in five days. At this point, I have so many multiple, and confusing emails from Amazon that I’m forced to believe that one tributary of the Big River doesn’t know what the other tributaries are doing.
The Hugo Awards were presented last night in Kansas City. Congratulations to all the winners! Here’s the list of finalists and winners.
Yesterday was a lovely, full working day — and the laundry’s almost done, too! Today is breezy and sunny and oh, so tempting to go to the ocean, or at least the shore — however! It is a Sunday in August. I will, therefore, stay home and? Work.
On the subject of Housekeeping: WordPress helpfully closed comments in the Spoiler Thread for Alliance of Equals. They have been re-opened, and (unless there’s a sudden massive upsweep in comments, in which case the moderator will withhold her hand) will be closed by the moderator on August 31.
I think that’s it for Sunday morning — except, yanno, more coffee! and more laundry! and more words!
Everybody be good.
Here, have a nice, long snippet for Sunday:
That being the case, he was merely Theo’s brother — an unhappy circumstance, given that Theo’s home culture held that the proper duty of women was to protect and care for the lesser sex. Even his position as her elder did not weigh nearly so much as the fact that he was male. His necessities must naturally wait upon his sister’s.
Still, he had played the kin card cannily, hoping that the joyous occasion of a niece might tempt her where a brother did not. It appeared, however, that he had miscalculated.
Today’s blog post is brought to you by The Moody Blues, “Day Begins,” from the album Days of Future Passed, which I adored, back in the day, and which I don’t even own anymore. Ah, Life. Here’s your link.
The Moody Blues hold up fairly well, actually.