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The new year is coming right on down the tracks, and that means — lining up good reading for 2023 and! making travel plans.

Here are a few datapoints to help you plan.

January 3, 2023:  Chicks in Tank Tops publication date.  Edited by Jason Cordova, with brand new stories from Esther Friesner, Kevin Ikenberry, Jody Lynn Nye, Joelle Presby, Marisa Wolf, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and?  More!  No, honestly, there’s a whole lot of good reading in this book, and you don’t want to miss out.  Available from your favorite bookstore.

January 5, 2023:  Rembrandt’s Station by Christie Meierz releases, a happy fact that will be celebrated by a Zoom launch party on January 7.  Steve and I will be there, and hope that you will, too.  Party details here

February 17-19, 2023:  Boskone 60.  GOHs: Nalo Hopkinson, Vito Ngai, Tui T. Sutherland, Dave Clement.  Steve Miller and Sharon Lee will be attending in person after a several year gap.  We cannot yet reveal our schedules, but we can say that we will be reading from Salvage Right, the 100th Lee and Miller collaboration; participating in a few panels, and hosting a kaffeeklatsch.  Hope to see you there.  Here’s your link to register

February 28, 2023:  The anniversary re-issue of the classic Liaden Regency, Scout’s Progress, with a new and exciting cover by Sam Kennedy, and! a new foreword by the authors, releases from All the Usual Suspects.

Looking a little further down the line — April 28-30, 2023:  Heliosphere 2023.  GOHs: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, David M. Mattingly.  Registration is open and though it is a thought over four months away, we urge you to register now.  Heliosphere is a small con and depends on its pre-registrations.  Here’s your link.

And, going way, way out, now — July 4, 2023, Salvage Right, the 25th novel set in the Liaden Universe® created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller back in the last century, releases from all of your favorite bookstores.

. . . I think that’s enough to get us started.

Here ends the year-end advertising special.

HELIOsphere registration open!

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be writer guests of honor at HELIOsphere, joining artist guest of honor David B. Mattingly, frequent cover artist for Liaden novels, and special guest Chuck Gannon for a weekend of scifi and Liaden merriment.

Registration and room block are now open.

Here’s your link.

We’re really looking forward to this, and hope to see all — yes, that’s all — of you there!

WorldCon! Book Signing!

On Thursday — that’s tomorrow — Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will have their first panels as Virtual ChiCon attendees.

At 5:30 Central/6:30 Eastern, Sharon will be participating in the Improbable Research Dramatic Readings.

At 7 Central/8 Eastern, Steve will be hosting a Table Talk.

Sharon’s complete con schedule can be found here

Steve’s complete con schedule can be found here

In addition to our WorldCon duties, we will be signing in person at Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shop in Topsham Maine, on Saturday, September 3, from 11 am until 1 pm.  Hope to see you there!

 

Lee and Miller ChiCon 8 Schedule

Steve and I 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. Marc Abrahams, founder of the Ig Nobel Prize, which highlights work that first makes you laugh and then makes you think, has selected several such studies and invited a panel of scientists and writers to dramatically read passages from them. Despite their unfamiliarity with the research they’ve read, panelists will also attempt to answer audience questions about it.
Participants: Marc Abrahams (m), Jack Glassman, Mason A. Porter, Rosemary Claire Smith, S E Mulholland, Sharon Lee, Thiago Ambrósio Lage

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Space/Time:  Airmeet Table Talks/Thursday, September 1 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Title: Virtual Table Talk – Steve Miller
Description: Skylark award winner Steve Miller has published over 100 SF works since 1976 including the Liaden Universe® shared with Sharon Lee. He helped pioneer ebooks, crowd-funding, and modern SF convention art shows, and can talk with fans about it.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4

Space/Time: Airmeet Table Talks Sunday, September 4 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM CDT
Title: Virtual Table Talk – Sharon Lee
Description: Sharon Lee has authored more than 100 works with partner Steve Miller, most of them set in their original Liaden Universe®. She has also written five novels and dozens of short stories under her single byline. In 2012, she and Steve were joint recipients of the Skylark Award.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5

Space/Time: Airmeet Readings Monday, September 5, 11:00 AM – 11:40 AM CDT
Virtual Reading – Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Description: Lee and Miller will be reading from their most recent Liaden Universe® work, including a surprise passage from their 100th collaborative effort, Salvage Right.

 

Lee and Miller Upcoming Convention appearances

So, Steve and I will be going to ChiCon8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in Chicago, August 31-September 4.  We are reportedly still under consideration as panelists.  As soon as we know anything, yea or nay, we’ll shout it from the rooftops.  In the meantime, we are trying to find a venue for a Friends of Liad breakfast.  So, yanno, watch the skies.

Looking a little further ahead, Steve and I will be Writer Guests of Honor at Heliosphere, April 28-30 in Piscataway NJ. David Mattingly will be Artist Guest of Honor.

This will be our first in-person GOH gig since MidSouthCon, in 2018, and we hope to see all! of! you! — yes, you, too — there!
The convention webpage will be updated RSN.  In the meantime, for those interested, Heliosphere does has a Facebook group.  Those interested may join here.

 

She says the moon don’t hang quite as high as it used to

Yes, yes, I know:  What in ghod’s name has the woman been doing, besides reading books?

Well, for one thing — I’ve been working on an embroidery project.  Also doing, as ever, less than my fair share of keeping the house running, and marveling, as I do every year about this time how, when the snow decides to go, it go.  The ground  crew will be here any day now to do the spring cleanup, and before you know it, we’ll be getting the pop-up gazebo situated, and Steve will be dragging the grill out of its corner and onto the open deck.

I’ve also been writing a book.  Salvage Right broke 82,000 words last night, so that’s right on target for its June turn-in.  For those coming in late, Salvage Right is the story of what’s doin’ at Tinsori Light.  Slightly more information here.

In other news, we do have a book coming out on May 3.  Fair Trade is the third book following the adventures of Jethri Gobelyn ven’Deelin, who made his first, admittedly awkward, bow in Balance of Trade; his second, somewhat more nuanced, in Trade Secret.

If you’d like a signed copy of Fair Trade, you can preorder the hardcover from Uncle Hugo’s (now in a new location!) — here.  Please note that personalizations are not available at this time.

There’s still no word regarding an audiobook edition, for those who partake.

Steve and I are planning to attend ChiCon8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, in — surprise! — Chicago, from September 1-5.  Information here.

Going somewhat further out — Steve and I will be Writer Guests of Honor at Heliosphere 2023 in Piscataway, NJ, in April.  We’re promised that the website will be updated as soon as everyone’s recovered from Heliosphere 2022.

And that’s what I’ve been doing.  Nothing much exciting to write to y’all about, and frankly I’m OK with that.

Everybody stay safe.

Until soon.

Ah.  Today’s blog title brought to you by Matchbox Twenty, “3 am.”  Here’s your link.

 

Steve Miller’s Boskone Schedule

Boskone 59 starts today!

Steve Miller will be participating as a virtual panelist.  Here’s his schedule:

All times are Eastern Standard.

VIRTUAL: Unhappy Endings Format: Panel
18 Feb 2022, Friday 8pm – 8:50pm, Marina IV (Westin)
Jane Yolen, Steve Miller, Julie Czerneda, Paul Di Filippo (M), Ada Palmer

Tragic plays from Shakespeare, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides are still with us … hundreds, even thousands of years later. Not all stories let the protagonist triumph — sometimes they lose; sometimes they even die losing. Some science fiction and fantasy writers’ unhappily ending stories are quite popular. Why do they succeed? Why do other such stories fail — even fail so hard their authors never try to write unhappily ever after?

VIRTUAL: My Favorite Character
18 Feb 2022, Friday 9pm – 9:50pm, Marina IV (Westin)
Olav Rokne, Jen Gunnels, Steve Miller, David Marshall, James Moore (M)

Google once estimated that humanity had published 129,864,880 books. If about half were SF/F/H trilogies — never mind, let’s ask it this way: from all the speculative fiction stories ever published, who’s your favorite character, and why? Heroine, villain, sidekick, romantic interest, alien bystander? Would you like to meet, have dinner with, or be that person? What does your choice say about your own character?

VIRTUAL: Solo Reading
19 Feb 2022, Saturday 12:30 – 12:55, Marina IV (Westin)
Steve Miller

Steve Miller’s Boskone 59 Schedule

Steve Miller will be a virtual panelist at Boskone 59, February 18-20.  Boskone 59 is a Hybrid Convention this year.

Steve’s schedule is below.  All times are Eastern Standard.

VIRTUAL: Unhappy Endings Format: Panel
18 Feb 2022, Friday 8pm – 8:50pm, Marina IV (Westin)
Jane Yolen, Steve Miller, Julie Czerneda, Paul Di Filippo (M), Ada Palmer

Tragic plays from Shakespeare, Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides are still with us … hundreds, even thousands of years later. Not all stories let the protagonist triumph — sometimes they lose; sometimes they even die losing. Some science fiction and fantasy writers’ unhappily ending stories are quite popular. Why do they succeed? Why do other such stories fail — even fail so hard their authors never try to write unhappily ever after?

VIRTUAL: My Favorite Character
18 Feb 2022, Friday 9pm – 9:50pm, Marina IV (Westin)
Olav Rokne, Jen Gunnels, Steve Miller, David Marshall, James Moore (M)

Google once estimated that humanity had published 129,864,880 books. If about half were SF/F/H trilogies — never mind, let’s ask it this way: from all the speculative fiction stories ever published, who’s your favorite character, and why? Heroine, villain, sidekick, romantic interest, alien bystander? Would you like to meet, have dinner with, or be that person? What does your choice say about your own character?

VIRTUAL: Solo Reading
19 Feb 2022, Saturday 12:30 – 12:55, Marina IV (Westin)
Steve Miller

 

AlbaCon News!

Steve and Sharon will be Author Guests of Honor at AlbaCon, September 17 and 18 — that’s this weekend!

You can — in fact, if you want to attend the con, you must — register here.*  The convention is asking attendees to contribute what they feel is appropriate as a membership fee.

Our participation includes a Guest of Honor interview, conducted by Chuck Rothman; an investigation of the future of the Liaden Universe®, led by Tom Easton; and readings and panels.

Also!  Look for us at the Ice Cream Social on Friday evening.

One! More! Time!  Here’s the link to the convention.*

Everybody clear?  Excellent!  See you there!

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*Yes, the links all say 2020, but we are assured that they are working for the 2021 Virtual AlbaCon.