InfoDump – Sharon Lee, Writer

Liaden Universe® InfoDump Number 136

IN THIS ISSUE:
1 Ur Sid to join Lee and Miller Archive at Texas A&M
2 Plan B anniversary edition
3 Last Train Outta Kepler-283c
4 Sea Wrack and Changewinds
5 Ribbon Dance Audiobook
6 Diviner’s Bow
7 The Small Print: Sites of Interest, Blogs & Other Webly Things of Note, Facebook Connections, Xitter, Bluesky
8 DISCLAIMER

UR SID TO JOIN LEE-MILLER ARCHIVE AT TEXAS A&M
Longtime FoL will recall Ur Sid, an eight-inch tall Teddy bear, dressed in a Scout uniform. Ur Sid attended the conventions that Steve and Sharon couldn’t make, hobnobbing with the Famous, and, like every good fan, collecting buttons and memorabilia.

The authors would occasionally meet Ur Sid at worldcons, and were always happy to see him. But his purpose was to be an Ambassador at Large for the Liaden Universe®, and in that he succeeded very well, indeed.

Ur Sid traveled between cons via the Bumpy Passage, a refurbed Scout ship that had seen better days, and he sent reports back to the Friends of Liad listserve.

Those reports are sadly lost. However, Ur Sid also kept a diary. From it, we learn that his first WorldCon was ChiCon 2000. His last con, though it’s not noted in the diary, was Heliophere 2023, where Steve and Sharon were Writer Guests of Honor. He attended the Teddy Bear Tea, and charmed the room, as always.

All good adventures do finally come to an end. Ur Sid stopped traveling when the Bumpy Passage suffered a catastrophic failure of its Struven Unit. Subsequently, he spent some years with Friend of Liad Sarge, who reunited him with the authors at PhilCon 78, in 2014.

Ur Sid is about to embark on his last trip, via FedEx. He will be escorting a shipment of Liaden Universe® books to the Lee and Miller Archive at the Cushing Memorial Library at Texas A&M. Once that duty is accomplished, Ur Sid will become part of the permanent archive. He’ll be keeping a Very Close Eye on Steve and Sharon’s Literary Legacy. And charming the curators, of course.

Link to the Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Archive (note that the papers are still being processed)

PLAN B ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Plan B, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, originally published by Meisha Merlin in February 1999, has been reissued in mass market paperback and ebook by Baen Books, with a gorgeous new cover by Sam Kennedy, and a new afterword by Sharon Lee. Available from All the Usual Vendors.

LAST TRAIN OUTTA KEPLER-283C
Coming in November from Baen Books, this all-original anthology includes “The Last Train to Clarkesville,” a Liaden western, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, along with 12 more space western stories by D.J. Butler, Kevin Ikenberry, Mel Todd, David Mack — and more! Available for preorder from All the Usual Vendors.

SEA WRACK AND CHANGEWINDS
A collection of all the Archers Beach short stories by Sharon Lee will be available in time for Christmas as an ebook and trade paperback. Audio rights have been sold to Tantor, but there’s no information regarding that release date as yet.

RIBBON DANCE AUDIOBOOK
Tantor has contracted to produce an audiobook edition of Ribbon Dance, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, the 26th novel in their Liaden Universe®. There is no information as yet regarding a release date.

DIVINER’S BOW
The sequel to Ribbon Dance, Diviner’s Bow, is on-course to be turned in to Baen in November. It’s scheduled to be published in hardcover and in ebook on April 1, 2025, and will be available from All the Usual Vendors. Arrangements for providing signed copies are still being discussed. Watch the skies for updates.

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE LEE AND MILLER?
Sharon does not plan to attend any conventons in 2025. She does, however, have a membership to the Seattle WorldCon, so there is that.

THE SMALL PRINT
Sites of Interest:
Lee and Miller Patreon Support Page

Pinbeam Books: an online catalog, with vendor links, to all Lee-and-Miller, Miller, and Lee self-published works

Splinter Universe: features outtakes, splinters, oddities from the Lee-and-Miller writing career, currently changes irregularly.

Welcome to Liad: The official homepage for Liaden Universe® news

Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note:
Sharon Lee’s Blog

Facebook Connections:
Steve Miller Memorial Page

Sharon Lee

Clan Korval

Friends of Liad

Flaran cha’menthi https://www.facebook.com/groups/2213414696

BlueSky:
Sharon

Xitter:
Sharon

DISCLAIMER
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Liaden Universe® InfoDump Number 135

In this issue:
1 Steven Richard Miller 1950-2024
2 The future of the Liaden Universe®
3 Double Vision and Trade Lanes
4 Salvage Right mass market
5 All things Ribbon Dance: eARC, spoiler space, reviews, Uncle Hugo’s preorder, hardcover and ebook release
6 The Small Print: Sites of Interest, Blogs & Other Webly Things of Note, Facebook Connections, Xitter, Bluesky
7 DISCLAIMER

STEVEN RICHARD MILLER 1950-2024
For those who may have missed the news, Steve died very suddenly at home on February 20, 2024.
Link to his obituary on korval.com
Link to his obituary on File 770

For those who would like to share their memories of Steve, and the ways in which he may have touched their lives, there is a celebration page here

THE FUTURE OF THE LIADEN UNIVERSE®
Sharon does intend to continue writing in the Liaden Universe®, at least to fulfill the three books still under contract. Those books will appear under the byline of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.

DOUBLE VISION AND TRADE LANES
Steve was not quite finished with his clean-up pass of Double Vision when he left us. Sharon will finish that project as she has time, and will let the world know when it’s ready for preorder.

Trade Lanes was left in a state of disarray. Sharon is not certain that she can write this novel. Time will tell. Thank you for your understanding.

SALVAGE RIGHT MASS MARKET
The mass market edition of Salvage Right, the 100th Lee-and-Miller collaboration, will publish on April 30, and may be preodered now from All of the Usual Suspects.

RIBBON DANCE
1 The eARC (electronic Advance Reading Copy) of Ribbon Dance is now available from Baen Books. Here’s the link

2 A spoiler discussion page has been set up for those folks who have read the eARC and Want To Talk About It. Here’s that link

3 If you have read the eARC, please considering sharing a review on Goodreads, Baen.com, or on your social media, to help other readers decide if they want to prorder the hardcover.

4 Sharon spoke with the Uncle regarding signed copies of Ribbon Dance, and it’s been decided that signed copies WILL BE offered for preorder. The preorder page has not yet gone live, but the Webmaster has received the go-ahead, so — Watch the Skies at Uncle Hugo’s SF Bookstore.

5 Ribbon Dance hardcover and ebook will release on June 4. Sharon has an inquiry in to Baen regarding the audiobook release, but has not received any information as of — oh, let’s call it press time; that sounds official.

THE SMALL PRINT

Sites of Interest:
Lee and Miller Patreon Support Page

Pinbeam Books: an online catalog, with vendor links, to all Lee-and-Miller, Miller, and Lee self-published works

Splinter Universe: features outtakes, splinters, oddities from the Lee&Miller writing career, currently changes irregularly.

Welcome to Liad: The official homepage for Liaden Universe® news

Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note:
Sharon Lee’s Blog Without a Name

Facebook Connections:
Steve Miller Memorial Page

BlueSky:
Sharon

Xitter:
Sharon

DISCLAIMER
This InfoDump is a product of the Liaden Universe®, accept no imitations. You have received this message because you asked for it. If you wish to subscribe to the Liaden Universe® email list, to unsubscribe from the Liaden Universe® email list, or to change your delivery email
address, go here

Liaden Universe® InfoDump #134

In this issue:

1 Doors Into Change preorder
2 Ribbon Dance News: eARC date, signed hardcovers, publication date
3 Upcoming short stories in collections: Chicks in Tank Tops, The Last Train to Kepler-283c, Familiars
4 Plan B anniversary edition
5 Double Vision
6 Trade Lanes news
7 In the Works
8 Pull-Quote Project

DOORS INTO CHANGE

Door Into Change: Fantastic Stories from Archers Beach, by Sharon Lee
This chapbook includes two short stories and a novelette set in Sharon Lee’s notable small town contemporary fantasy world of Archers Beach, Maine.

“The Road to Pomona’s” is a rare precursor to the Archers Beach mythos, that examines the dangers of looking too far into fey matters, if you’re only a mundane human.

“The Vestals of Midnight,” takes place in one of the weirder and most dangerous corners of Archers Beach–the Enterprise, where things just “come in.” Only, what’s come in this time are children, and they’re in very great peril from the Enterprise’s ruling intelligence.

Novelette “Wolf in the Wind” serves up one of the Wise Ones who oversee the Six Worlds, and who might not be as impartial as their office demands.

PRAISE FOR SHARON LEE’S CAROUSEL SERIES
“This is how things would be if the fae world actually did impinge on our own world.” — SFRevu

“. . . a virtuoso ride, full of the spirit of the carnival, fully aware of the thinness of the veil between the worlds and expert at managing to twitch it aside just enough to matter.” — Alma A. Hromic

RIBBON DANCE CENTRAL

Ribbon Dance, the 26th novel set in the Liaden Universe® created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, is the sequel to 2020’s Trader’s Leap. In it, we follow the Tree-and-Dragon Trade Team headed by Master Trader Shan yos’Galan, ably assisted by new Trader Padi yos’Galan, as they attempt to establish if Colemeno, recently emerged from Rastov’s Dust can be made to anchor an exciting new trade route, while attempting to avoid falling afoul of local custom.

1 Ribbon Dance will be published in hardcover, ebook on June 4 2024. We await news of an audiobook edition.

2 The eARC will be available from Baen.com on March 15

3 Uncle Hugo WILL BE accepting preorders for signed copies of the hardcover in mid-March.

LEE AND MILLER SHORT STORIES UPCOMING

The following upcoming anthologies include stories by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller:
1 Chicks in Tank Tops, edited by Jason Cordova, Baen, February 7 includes Liaden Universe® story “Gadreel’s Folly.”

2 Familiars, edited by Patricia Bray, and Joshua Palmatier, Zombies Need Brains, August, includes “Familiarity.”

3 The Last Train to Kepler-283c, edited by David Boop, Baen, November 5, includes Liaden Universe® story “The Last Train to Clarkesville.”

PLAN B ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Baen is reprinting Plan B, the sequel to Carpe Diem, in a spiffy anniversary paperback in October. The book will include a new afterword from the authors.

DOUBLE VISION COMING SOON

Double Vision is just that – a collection combining our two different visions. In many cases there are two different understandings of story, some written individually and some written together, things that you may not have seen if you’re dyed in the wool Liaden fans but didn’t tread – or were too young for! – the larger market of anthologies and magazines that helped us get our single and joint careers in motion.

If you are a fan of our Liaden stories, or of Archer’s Beach, for that matter, you’ll find some familiar themes, ideas, and character types … if you’re just started reading our work you might consider Double Vision a kind of primer on the question where we and the Liaden Universe came from.

This Pinbeam Books edition of Double Vision replaces the long-out-of-print SRM Publisher edition published 15 years ago – you can consider this a 15th anniversary edition of that 2009 collection if you like. Most of the text of that edition has been retained but some additional editing and reformatting has been performed.

NOTE: The cover of this edition is used by special permission of the artist, Chris McGrath – it was previously used for the Meisha Merlin edition of Low Port, edited by Lee and Miller.

TRADE LANES NEWS

From Steve and Sharon: “Yes, Trade Lanes is much later than we’d like. Steve’s recasting the book since an insidious plot miscue meant two of the core threads actually conflict with established Liaden Universe® canon. Much of the novel is being rebuilt word by word. At this point, we anticipate turning in a finished manuscript in 2025.”

WHAT’S IN THE WORKS

Sharon is lead on the sequel to Ribbon Dance (title TBA), which is due to Baen in September.

PR PROJECT: PULL QUOTES

Baen is asking its authors to provide them with fun pull-quotes from their books, for an upcoming PR push. We are therefore asking you, our readers, to help us out. This is your chance to see your favorite Liaden Universe® quote up in lights.

Go here to read the instructions.

THE SMALL PRINT

Sites of Interest

Lee and Miller Patreon Support Page

Pinbeam Books an online catalog, with vendor links, to all Lee-and-Miller, Miller, and Lee self-published works

Splinter Universe features outtakes, splinters, oddities from the Lee&Miller writing career, currently changes irregularly.

Welcome to Liad The official homepage for Liaden Universe® news

Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note

Sharon Lee’s Blog

Facebook Connections
Steve Miller

BlueSky

Sharon: clankorval.bsky.social

Steve: bechimo.bsky.social

Xitter

Steve

Sharon

Disclaimer Stuff
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Liaden Universe® InfoDump #133

IN THIS ISSUE:
Salvage Right audiobook update
Salvage Right mass market
Ribbon Dance publication date set
Big List of Lee and Miller Interviews
Splinter Universe news
Sale! Liaden Universe® cover art
Where on Earth are Lee and Miller?

SALVAGE RIGHT AUDIOBOOK UPDATE
Eileen Stevens will be narrating the audiobook edition of the 25th Liaden Universe® novel, Salvage Right. Steve and Sharon spoke with Eileen at length on Sunday; she expects to begin recording at the end of the week of November 6. No word yet on the publication date at Audible, but that day is much nearer, now.

SALVAGE RIGHT MASS MARKET
The mass market paperback edition of SALVAGE RIGHT will be published on April 30, 2024, and will be available at your favorite bookstore.

RIBBON DANCE PUBLICATION
The 26th novel set in the Liaden Universe®, RIBBON DANCE will be published in hardcover and ebook editions on June 24, 2024, and will be available from All of the Usual Suspects.

RIBBON DANCE is the direct sequel to 2020’s TRADER’S LEAP, following the continuing efforts of Master Trader Shan yos’Galan to open new and profitable trade routes for Clan Korval.

The blurb: On a world where cake is a necessity, it takes the Grid to protect the civilized and the deaf from the dire influences of the ambient and to keep the chaotic Haosa at bay.

Having arrived at recently Dust-bound Colemeno, Trader Padi yos’Galan is essential to Master Trader Shan yos’Galan’s plan to recoup Korval’s clan fortunes by establishing new routes for the clan’s tradeship. Shan’s inner Healer insists Padi come to terms with her as-yet unplumbed psychic abilities, which might place her in the top tier of dramliz, if she can learn control.

Padi yearns to concentrate on trade, but Colemeno’s fey ambient and deadly long-term politics combine to bring her face-to-face with the Haosa, and in particular with the mysterious and untouchable Tekelia, as Korval’s trade mission’s necessity of a port audit collide with a cruel history of murder, deception, and brutality. Amid the dangers, Padi unexpectedly finds herself eagerly exploring her dramliz side when faced with the unspoken powers of the ambient, the sky-filling energy of the ribbon dance, and Tekelia’s mutable eyes.

Cover art by David Mattingly.

LEE-AND-MILLER INTERVIEWS
Sharon and Steve have busy doing interviews and podcasts in support of SALVAGE RIGHT, their 100th collaboration and 25th novel set in their Liaden Universe®. Here’s a link to the entire list of interviews, not just from this year, but from past years, as well. Link Alternate link

SPLINTER UNIVERSE UPDATES
Those who enjoy splinters will be interested to know that over the last couple of months two splinters have been posted and are available to be read at your leisure.

Seven chapters of a stalled novel, WOLF IN THE WIND, begins here

SHADOW OF ARTEMIA, prologue through chapter five, beings here

SALE! LIADEN UNIVERSE® COVER ART
David Mattingly has been creating awesome covers for the Liaden novels ever since SALTATION. If you’ve ever wished you could own one – or all! – of those lovely pieces of art, your wish has been granted. David has a store on Esty, and for one week only, starting NOW, he’s having a sale! You can get 25% off all orders using the code: LIADEN. One week ONLY! Here’s the link

WHERE IN THE WORLD ARE LEE AND MILLER?
Steve and Sharon will be attending Boskone, February 9-11, 2024, in Boston, Massachusetts. Hope to see you there!

THE SMALL PRINT
Lee and Miller Patreon Support Page
Pinbeam Books: an online catalog, with vendor links, to all Lee-and-Miller, Miller, and Lee self-published works
Splinter Universe: features outtakes, splinters, oddities from the Lee&Miller writing career, currently changes irregularly
Welcome to Liad: The official homepage for Liaden Universe® news
Sharon Lee’s Blog
Facebook: Steve Miller
Facebook: Sharon Lee
Twitter: Sharon Lee
Twitter: Steve Miller

Liaden Universe® Infodump #132

Liaden Universe® Infodump #132
June 29, 2023
Independence Day and Beyond

In this issue:
Salvage Right Official Publication Day is July 4
Podcast links and coming attractions
Salvage Right Spoiler Space
Anthology Notes
Convention Appearances

SALVAGE RIGHT
Salvage Right, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, the 25th Liaden Universe® novel (and their 100th collaborative work), will be officially released in paper and ebook editions July 4, 2023. We have word that some stores already have the hardback on the shelves; signed copies are available from Uncle Hugo’s bookstore in Minneapolis.

Sample chapters from Salvage Right are available online now at Baen: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781982192686/9781982192686.htm

In honor of Salvage Right Lee and Miller are taking part in a number of podcasts and special events.

Annies Bookstore: Selina Lovett at Annie’s Bookstore did a Zoom interview with the authors, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXk4sseGHKo

Watch for Griffin Barber’s interview with us at the Baen Free Radio Hour: https://www.baen.com/podcast

Upcoming: An interview with CultureScape with Peter Pischke with release date TBA, and another interview, this with Under The Radar SFF Books due later in July: https://fyyd.de/podcast/the-happy-warrior-podcast/locale

The authors will be doing a virtual book signing at Pandemonium Books, Wednesday July 26: https://pandemoniumbooks.com/ details TBA

SPOILER SPACE
As has been their pleasant habit, Lee and Miller have created a spoiler
discussion space availabl

Liaden Universe Infodump #132
June 29, 2023
Independence Day and Beyond

In this issue:
Salvage Right Official Publication Day is July 4
Podcast links and coming attractions
Salvage Right Spoiler Space
Anthology Notes
Convention Appearances

Sample chapters from Salvage Right are available online now at Baen: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781982192686/9781982192686.htm

In honor of Salvage Right Lee and Miller are taking part in a number of podcasts and special events.

Annies Bookstore: Selina Lovett at Annie’s Bookstore did a Zoom interview with the authors, which can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXk4sseGHKo

Watch for Griffin Barber’s interview with us at the Baen Free Radio Hour: https://www.baen.com/podcast

The authors will be doing a virtual book signing at Pandemonium Books, Wednesday July 26: https://pandemoniumbooks.com/ details TBA

SPOILER SPACE
As has been their pleasant habit, Lee and Miller have created a spoiler
discussion space available for those speedy readers who have read the
eARC, and want to talk about Salvage Right. We do this in kindness to
those people who are waiting for the hardcover, or the audiobook, or the
mass market, and who do not want the story spoiled for them. Here’s the
link to the Salvage Right spoiler space: https://korval.com/2023/03/22/salvage-right-spoiler-space/

ANTHOLOGY NOTES

Solar Flare, the ZNB ?solar punk? anthology will be published sooner than expected, with an adjusted release date of July 15, 2023, including the Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (non-Liaden) story ?Interventions.? Available electronically from the usual places, the Amazon ebook is at: https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Flare-Solarpunk-Gail-Martin-ebook/dp/B0C5JV8QGJ . A paper edition can be found at https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site/product/solar-flare-kickstarter-paperback-/238

“Last Train Outta Kepler 283-c”, edited by David Boop, will feature a Liaden ?western? – The Last Train to Clarkesville – when it arrives. That exact 2024 publication date is still to be determined.

SCHEDULED CONVENTION APPEARANCES

Astronomicon … October 27-29, 2023, Rochester, NY – We’ve been invited to participate in programming and hope to do a reading. At last report the convention hotel was close to full, so act fast if you’d like to attend – https://astronomicon.org/

Boskone … February 9-11, 2024, Boston, MA – https://boskone.org/

THE SMALL PRINT
**Sites of Interest:**

*Lee and Miller Patreon Support Page <https://www.patreon.com/leeandmiller>

Pinbeam Books <http://www.pinbeambooks.com/>: an online catalog, with
vendor links, to all Lee-and-Miller, Miller, and Lee self-published works

Splinter Universe <http://www.splinteruniverse.com/>: features outtakes,
splinters, oddities from the Lee&Miller writing career, currently
changes irregularly.

Welcome to Liad <http://www.korval.com/>: The official homepage for
Liaden Universe® news

*Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note*
Sharon Lee’s Blog <https://sharonleewriter.com/blog-without-a-name/>
Steve Miller’s blog, Journeyman <https://kinzel.dreamwidth.org/>

*Facebook Connections*
Steve Miller <http://facebook.com/kinzel>
Sharon Lee <http://facebook.com/rolanni>
Clan Korval <http://www.facebook.com/groups/38719490864/>
Friends of Liad <https://www.facebook.com/groups/16280839259>
Flaran cha’menthi <https://www.facebook.com/groups/2213414696>

*Twitter*
Steve’s on Twitter <http://twitter.com/bechimo>
Sharon’s on Twitter, too <http://twitter.com/ClanKorval>

*Disclaimer Stuff*
This InfoDump is a product of the Liaden Universe®, accept no
imitations. You have received this message because you asked for it. If
you wish to subscribe to the Liaden Universe® email list, to unsubscribe
from the Liaden Universe® email list, or to change your delivery email
address, go here <http://www.fireopal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/>.

e for those speedy readers who have read the
eARC, and want to talk about Salvage Right. We do this in kindness to
those people who are waiting for the hardcover, or the audiobook, or the
mass market, and who do not want the story spoiled for them. Here’s the
link to the Salvage Right spoiler space: https://korval.com/2023/03/22/salvage-right-spoiler-space/

ANTHOLOGY NOTES

SCHEDULED CONVENTION APPEARANCES

Boskone … February 9-11, 2024, Boston, MA – https://boskone.org/

THE SMALL PRINT
**Sites of Interest:**

*Lee and Miller Patreon Support Page <https://www.patreon.com/leeandmiller>

Pinbeam Books <http://www.pinbeambooks.com/>: an online catalog, with
vendor links, to all Lee-and-Miller, Miller, and Lee self-published works

Splinter Universe <http://www.splinteruniverse.com/>: features outtakes,
splinters, oddities from the Lee&Miller writing career, currently
changes irregularly.

Welcome to Liad <http://www.korval.com/>: The official homepage for
Liaden Universe® news

*Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note*
Sharon Lee’s Blog <https://sharonleewriter.com/blog-without-a-name/>
Steve Miller’s blog, Journeyman <https://kinzel.dreamwidth.org/>

*Twitter*
Steve’s on Twitter <http://twitter.com/bechimo>
Sharon’s on Twitter, too <http://twitter.com/ClanKorval>

Liaden Universe® InfoDump #131: Salvage Right Edition

Infodump No. 131

In this issue:
Salvage Right eARC on sale now
Want to be a Mighty Tyop Hunter
Salvage Right Spoiler Space
Convention Appearances

SALVAGE RIGHT eARC ON SALE NOW
Baen has released the SALVAGE RIGHT eARC, here:

RECRUITING TYOP HUNTERS
Everything you need to know about tyop hunting is at this link:

SPOILER SPACE
As has been their pleasant habit, Lee and Miller have created a spoiler discussion space available for those speedy readers who have read the eARC, and want to talk about Salvage Right. We do this in kindness to those people who are waiting for the hardcover, or the audiobook, or the mass market, and who do not want the story spoiled for them. Here’s the link to the Salvage Right spoiler space.

PREORDER YOUR SIGNED HARDCOVER
Uncle Hugo has opened preorders for signed copies of the Salvage Right hardcover. Here’s your link.

LEE AND MILLER HELIOSPHERE WRITER GUESTS OF HONOR!
Lee and Miller will be Writer Guests of Honor at Heliosphere, April
28-30, 2023 in Piscataway NJ. Artist Guest of Honor will be David
Mattingly. Hope to see you all there! Here’s your link to register:

The Small Print
Sites of Interest:
Lee and Miller Patreon Support Page
Pinbeam Books: an online catalog, with vendor links, to all Lee-and-Miller, Miller, and Lee self-published works
Splinter Universe: features outtakes, splinters, oddities from the Lee&Miller writing career, currently changes irregularly.
Welcome to Liad: The official homepage for Liaden Universe® news

Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note
Sharon Lee’s Blog
Steve Miller’s blog, Journeyman

Facebook Connections
Steve Miller
Sharon Lee
Clan Korval
Friends of Liad
Flaran cha’menthi

Twitter
Steve’s on Twitter
Sharon’s on Twitter, too

Liaden Universe® Holiday InfoDumpling

Audio Book News
Fair Trade, by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, the 24th novel set in their original Liaden Universe®, published as hardcover and ebook by Baen in May 2022, is now available from Audible, Eileen Stevens narrating.
Here’s your link

Convention News
BOSKONE
Boskone 60, February 17-19, 2023. Registration is now open
Guests of Honor: Nalo Hopkinson, Victo Ngai, Tui T. Sutherland, Dave Clement.
Lee and Miller have been accepted as panelists, and will be attending.
Here’s your link

HELIOSPHERE
The website has been updated and registration is now open for HelioSpehere 2023. Liaden Universe® authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller and frequent Liaden cover artist David Mattingly are Guests of Honor; April 28 – 30, 2023 Holiday Inn Piscataway, NJ.
Here’s your link

Happy holidays to all who celebrate. Looking forward to seeing you in person in 2023!

Liaden Universe® InfoDump Number 130

Liaden Universe® InfoDump No. 130
News from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe® and Beyond!

In This Issue:
Upcoming Publication News
Convention Appearances
Career Milestones

Upcoming Publication News
In order of appearance

From Every Storm: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 35
Ebook to be released on November 23, 2023. Paper book available on or slightly before that date. The ebook is now available for pre-order at Apple, Amazon, BN, Kobo, among others.

Summary:
From Every Storm is a chapbook compilation of three Liaden Universe® stories, one of them never before published. The storms of the title spring not so much from the desert or the deep blue sea but from the minds and hearts of humanity, where greed wars with truth and justice, and where sometimes the supposed end of storm is a mere hurricane eye portending greater potential for damage ahead.

First up is “Standing Orders,” a finalist for 2022’s WSFA’s Small Press Award for Short Fiction, originally published in Derelict, a 2021 ZNB anthology. What happens at the end of a war that no one really won, where victory came at the price of acting more like the enemy than the High Command ever should?

Next is the previously unissued “Songs of the Fathers” a story dealing with Shan yos’Galan’s sometime trade partner Lomar Fasholt and her family as they struggle to follow her Mother’s religion as it morphs from loving to acquisitive, from flexible to aggressively rule-bound. Lomar’s a good mother and wife but her self-exiled family’s suffered greatly through this storm of changes. Will they find hope amidst the tumult?

Finally, there’s “From Every Storm a Rainbow,” the 2021 holiday story from Baen.com, wherein Sinit Caylon comes face to face with the perfidy of her absent brother while the accountant’s guild is trying to help Clan Mizel come about after years of of her mother’s abdication of responsibilities to Ran Eld. Sinit thinks the storm must be about over until it become obvious that between them her mother and brother may have fatally endangered the clan’s brightest future.

“Gadreel’s Folly,” lead story in the anthology Chicks in Tank Tops, edited by Jason Cordova, Baen Books, publication date January 3, 2023. “Folly” is Kasagaria Mikelsyn’s origin story. You may preorder Chicks in Tank Tops from your favorite bookstore. Those who indulge may purchase the earc from Baen.com.

Scout’s Progress 20^th anniversary mass market reprint, February 28, 2023, featuring a gorgeous new cover by Sam Kennedy and a new foreword by the authors. Available for preorder from your favorite on-line bookstore.

Salvage Right, Lee and Miller’s 25^th Liaden Universe® novel, July 4, 2023. Gorgeous cover by David Mattingly. Hardcover available for preorder at your favorite bookstore. There will be an ebook edition available on publication day, but, as we all know by now, not all Baen ebooks are available as preorders.

Regarding signed copies: We have spoken to the Uncle and he is willing to handle orders for signed copies of Salvage Right – HOWEVER, he will NOT be accepting preorders until somewhat closer to the publication date. This information is provided to help you to plan your ordering and budgeting. An InfoDumpling will be dispatched when preordering for signed books opens.

Regarding eARC: We assume that the lack of a ebook preorder button means that there will be an eARC edition available from Baen, 3 or 4 months prior to publication of the hardcover.

Regarding Salvage Right cover art: David Mattingly makes a limited number of prints of his covers available for sale. If you would like a print of the Salvage Right art (which is, honestly, just gorgeous), go here: type “Salvage Right” into the search box, and choose your size from those offered.

About Salvage Right:
With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more.

For centuries, two heroes stood between Tinsori Light and the vulnerable universe – Light Keepers Jen Sin yos’Phelium and Lorith of the Sanderat.

Just when it seemed that they – merely human – must fail, Tinsori Light, enfeebled by aged systems, succumbed to the stress of a unique spatial event – and died, leaving the station a shell.

Luckily, the light keepers have back-up. A mismatched team of arcane specialists are on-station, working non-stop to preserve the Light, build trustworthy systems, and open the refurbished station for business.

In fact, ships are already incoming, and it becomes a matter of urgency to sort friend from foe. In particular, the Lyre Institute wishes to acquire Tinsori Light, and will do anything, spend anyone, to achieve that goal.

“The Last Train to Clarkesville,” Last Train Outta Kepplar-283c, edited by David Boop, Baen Books, publication date Winter 2023. We were challenged to write a Liaden Universe® Western.

Fair Trade audiobook. This has been a long time coming, and it ain’t here yet, but! We had a wonderful, lively conference with narrator Eileen Stevens, as she was getting ready to start recording, so we hope that the wait won’t be too much longer.

CONVENTION APPEARANCES

Lee and Miller have applied to be in-person panelists at Boskone 60 (February 17-19, 2023). There is a new process in place this year, and we’ve not yet heard back concerning our applications. More news when we have some.

Lee and Miller will be Writer Guests of Honor at Heliosphere, April 28-30, 2023 in Piscataway NJ. Artist Guest of Honor will be David Mattingly.

CAREER MILESTONES
*As above, Salvage Right is the 25^th Liaden Universe® novel.
*It is also Lee and Miller’s 29^th collaborative novel, and 100^th collaborative work.
*It is Sharon Lee’s 34^th novel.
*And! It brings Lee-and-Miller’s total lifetime collaborative words written to Three million, seven hundred fifty-eight thousand, four hundred and eight.

But we haven’t stopped, there. “The Last Train to Clarkesville” is Lee and Miller’s 102^nd collaborative work, and we have more in the pipeline.

Thank you all for sticking with us through 35 years of telling stories!

Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note
Sharon Lee’s Blog
Steve Miller’s blog, Journeyman

Facebook Connections
Steve Miller
Sharon Lee
Clan Korval
Friends of Liad
Flaran cha’menthi

Twitter
Steve’s on Twitter
Sharon’s on Twitter, too

Addendum to InfoDump 129

This is in answer to the numerous pleas across several venues for more information on SALVAGE RIGHT, its setting and cast.

SALVAGE RIGHT is set on Tinsori Light. The cast of characters includes, but is not limited to!

Jen Sin yos’Phelium

Seignur Veeoni

Tocohl Lorlin

Lorith

Tolly Jones

Hazenthull nor’Phelium

Theo Waitley

Liaden Universe® InfoDump No. 129, the Long Edition

Liaden Universe® InfoDump No. 129
News from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Liaden Universe® and Beyond!

It’s been a while since the last InfoDump. We hope everyone is safe, well, and happy.

In This Issue:
Fair Trade News
Liaden Universe® Constellation, Volume 5
The Series Hugo and the Liaden Universe®
Who’s Writing What for When?
Steve’s Boskone 59 Schedule
Watch the skies and then watch us!
Where in the World are Lee and Miller?
The Small Print

FAIR TRADE News
FAIR TRADE is the 24th novel set in the Liaden Universe® created and written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. It is, in addition, the third book in the so-called “Jethri arc.” Previous volumes were: BALANCE OF TRADE and TRADE SECRET.

For those who indulge the eARC is available from Baen Books ONLY. Here’s the link.

For those who are waiting — patiently! — for the hardcover to be published in May, and would like to have a signed hardcover, you may preorder your book from Uncle Hugo ONLY. Here’s the link.
Please Note: Personalizations are not available this year. The Uncle is just getting his new Real World Store set up, and it’s felt that the additional craziness of trying to keep track of personalized books would only be a recipe for error. Thank you for your understanding.

LIADEN UNIVERSE® CONSTELLATION, VOLUME 5 . . .
. . .is out in trade paper, and available from your favorite bookstore.
Remember, the Constellations collect stories that have already appeared elsewhere into One! Convenient! Package!

Table of Contents: Authors’ Foreword, Fortune’s Favors, Opportunity to Seize, Shout of Honor, Command Decision, Dark Secrets, A Visit to the Galaxy Ballroom, The Gate that Locks the Tree, Preferred Seating, Ambient Conditions, Dead Men Dream

The Series Hugo and the Liaden Universe®
There have been Questions, mostly around the fact that there was no Liaden Universe® novel published in 2021 (ref “fuck cancer”), and therefore how can the series possibly be eligible for the Series Hugo?

We checked with Appropriate Authority, to be certain we weren’t misleading anyone, and here is how the Series Hugo works:

First, in order to nominate works for the Hugo Ballot, you must have been a member of ChiCon8, the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, on or before January 31, 2022 OR you must have been a member of DisCon III, the 79th WorldCon.

Second, if you meet the above stipulation, you have until March 15 to nominate. Only members of ChiCon8 may vote on the final ballot.

Third, specific to the Series Hugo: The Liaden Universe® is already established as eligible for this award. That is, there are already (many more than) 240,000 published words of Liaden Universe® out there in the literary world.

Since we have crossed the eligibility threshold of 240,000 published words in-series, there only needs to be one installment of any length in-series for the Nominating Year — which is 2021.

There were four installments of the Liaden Universe® published in 2021. I will list them at the end of this posting. This is important because, when you enter a series into the nomination form, it asks you for a “2021 Example from Series.” This is where you enter your choice of the four shorter Liaden works that were published in 2021. Those works are:

SHORT STORY
“Standing Orders,” Derelict, Zombies Need Brains, July 2021 (5,775 words)

NOVELETTE
“From Every Storm a Rainbow,” Baen.com (link to free story) December 2021 (7,957 words)

“Our Lady of Benevolence,” Bread Alone: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 34, Pinbeam Books, November 2021 (14,500 words)

NOVELLA
“Dead Men Dream,” Change State: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 32, Pinbeam Books, March 2021 (19,800 words)

As an aside, all of the works listed above are also eligible for Hugo nominations in their own categories.

Everybody good?

Good.

Please do consider nominating the Liaden Universe® as one of your five choices for the Series Hugo. Please mention the Liaden Universe® in whatever Hugo discussions you may be having.

Why is the series worthy of the Series Hugo? Well — it’s a good, solid piece of work, if I do say so. The Liaden Universe® currently includes 23 published novels, and dozens of short stories — closing in on 5 million words. The very first Liaden Universe® novel, Agent of Change, was published in February 1988. The twenty-fourth Liaden Universe® novel, Fair Trade, will be published in May 2022. The series is qualified — perhaps overqualified — for the Series Hugo.

Side reading, for those who are interested:

Wikipedia article here
Locus article here
Tor.com: The Little Series that Could
Portland Press Herald article here

Who’s Writing What for When?
Lee and Miller are under contract to Baen Books for three Liaden Universe® novels after FAIR TRADE, which will be published in May. Those novels are:

1 TRADE LANES, the sequel to Fair Trade — Steve Miller, Lead Writer

2 SALVAGE RIGHT — Sharon Lee, Lead Writer

3 A Liaden Novel to be Named Later — Sharon Lee, Lead Writer probably? At the moment, this is looking like a return to the Redlands and checking in with Padi, Tekelia, Aunt Astra, Eet, and the gang. This could change, as all things may change, and only reflect our thoughts at the moment.

For those who have been playing along at home for a long time, the above three novels complete the Triple Threat contract with Baen.

We do not at the moment have any short works under contract, but that, too, could change.

BOSKONE 59 Schedule
Steve Miller will be a virtual panelist at Boskone 59, February 18-20. Boskone 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

Watch the skies and then watch us!
Lee and Miller have a Zoom event coming up later this month — chatting with Griffin Barber about Liaden Universe® Constellation, Volume 5. See or listen to this podcast here.

Where in the World are Lee and Miller?
Lee and Miller are members of ChiCon8. We hope to attend, but we are keeping a weather eye out.

Blogs and Other Webly Things of Note
Sharon Lee’s Blog
Steve Miller’s blog, Journeyman

Facebook Connections
Steve Miller
Sharon Lee
Clan Korval
Friends of Liad
Flaran cha’menthi

Twitter
Steve’s on Twitter
Sharon’s on Twitter, too