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Ribbon Dance postcard update

The last batch of Ribbon Dance postcards will be mailed to volunteers today. I want to thank everyone who offered to take cards to cons, bookstores, literary events, libraries . . . your help is very much appreciated.

A few notes on methodology.

I had X amount of postcards and X+ number of volunteers. After consideration, I opted for breadth rather than depth. Every one who volunteered got some postcards.

Some folks will find not only Ribbon Dance postcards, but postcards, or bookmarks, for Salvage Right (the mass market came out this month, so the cards are timely). You may also have postcards for Carousel Sun (which isn’t timely, but I had a stack of them and better used than thrown away).

If you were expecting postcards and don’t get them in a week, you may assume that I missed your address in my gathering process. My apologies; no slight was intended, but no system is perfect.

Again, many thanks for your efforts on our behalf.

Double Vision available for preorder

Back in 2009, SRM Publisher, Ltd (aka Steve Miller and Sharon Lee) put out a Double Vision, a yours, mine, and ours collection of twenty-nine stories that were specifically not set in the Liaden Universe®.

Double Vision never had an ebook edition, and Steve was determined that it should. This was in fact the project he had been working on when he died, and it is now available for pre-order at most, if not all of the Usual Suspects.

Double Vision will not be available in paper. The reasons for this are several, but the most pressing is Amazon, which still has the title in its database as a trade paper published by SRM, and honestly? I don’t want to fight with them about does Pinbeam Books have a contract with SRM Publisher to republish its property. I really, really do not have the spoons for that.

So! Double Vision will drop on June 1 — which means that, yes, Baen will also have it available for download.

Here’s the list of stories that are included: Ginger and the Bully of Lowergate Court, Sharon Lee; The Cat’s Job, Steve Miller; A Matter of Ceremony, Sharon Lee; Coffee Cat, Sharon Lee; The Big Ice, Sharon Lee; Rain Day, Steve Miller; Master of The Winds, Sharon Lee; The Pretender, Sharon Lee; The Silver Pathway, Sharon Lee; The Year They Brought The Bears to Belfast, Sharon Lee; The Naming of Kinzel, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller; Kinzel The Innocent, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller; Kinzel The Arbiter, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller; And Hawks for Heralds, Steve Miller; Charioteer, Steve Miller; Stormshelter, Sharon Lee; The Solution, Steve Miller; The Girl, the Cat, and Deviant, Sharon Lee; The Afterimage, Sharon Lee; Master Walk, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller; Choices, Steve Miller; Cards, Sharon Lee; The Handsome Prince, Sharon Lee; Stolen Laughter, Sharon Lee; The Winter Consort, Sharon Lee; The Inventoried, Steve Miller; Gonna Boogie With Granny Time, Sharon Lee; Passionato, Sharon Lee; Candlelight, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

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You may now preorder the Ribbon Dance ebook

You — yes, you! — may now preorder the Kindle edition of Ribbon Dance, if you’re so inclined, here. Reports suggest that the ebook preorder button is also manifesting at BN, so check your favorite bookseller.

I note that Amazon can’t seem to figure out if Ribbon Dance is the 26th Liaden book, the 27th Liaden book, or the 29th Liaden book. Baen Books has been alerted to this situation.

Preorders for signed Ribbon Dance open

Those who have been waiting (patiently, so very patiently) to be able to order signed copies of RIBBON DANCE from the Uncle — your patience has been rewarded!

Here’s your link.

Boosting the Signal: Baen Books eligible for the Dragon Awards

The below is from Baen Books, reproduced in its entirety.

For those who read here for news of Things Liaden — yes, both Salvage Right and Ribbon Dance, the novels, are eligible this year, as well as the cover art for both books.

Honestly, I can’t choose between the cover art for Salvage Right and Ribbon Dance, so good luck with that.

For those interested in the Dragon Award Rules, go here

Without further comment — here’s Baen:

Dear readers,

The following is a comprehensive list of our eligible titles for the 2024 Dragon Awards. They are listed in publication order, except for the cover artists. They are listed alphabetically by artist with the books they illustrated.

Science Fiction
“Salvage Right” by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
“Endangered Species” by Charles E. Gannon
“House of Rough Diamonds” by Jane Lindskold
“The Silent Hand” by Michael Mersault
“Through the Storm” by John Ringo & Lydia Sherrer
“The Dyson File” by Jacob Holo
“The Icarus Twin” by Timothy Zahn
“Light of the Veil” by Richard Fox
“Protected Species” by Charles E. Gannon
“Threading the Needle” by Monalisa Foster
“Among the Gray Lords” by D. J. Butler
“Beggar’s Sky” by Wil McCarthy
“Beyond Enemies” by Marisa Wolf
“The Icarus Job” by Timothy Zahn
“Interstellar Medic: The Long Run” by Patrick Chiles
“Toll of Honor” by David Weber
“Disquiet Gods” by Christopher Ruocchio
“Admiral and Commander” by Charles E. Gannon & Chris Kennedy
“Beyond the Ranges” by John Ringo with James Aidee
“The Thermopylae Protocol” by David Weber & Jacob Holo
“Ribbon Dance” by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

Fantasy
“Lord of a Shattered Land” by Howard Andrew Jones
“The City of Marble and Blood” by Howard Andrew Jones
“Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever” by Larry Correia & Jason Cordova
“My Brother’s Keeper” by Tim Powers
“The Eccentrics” by Tim Akers

Alternate History
“1638: The Sovereign States” by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, & Paula Goodlett
“Dirty Water” by Tom Kratman
“An Angel Called Peterbilt” by Eric Flint, Gorg Huff, & Paula Goodlett

Horror
“Hyde & Seek” by Simon R. Green

Best Illustrative Book Cover
Bob Eggleton, Beyond the Ranges

Marianne Plumridge Eggleton, Interstellar Medic: The Long Run

Dominic Harman, Light of the Veil
Dominic Harman, Threading the Needle
Dominic Harman, Down These Mean Streets

Sam R. Kennedy, The Silent Hand
Sam R. Kennedy, Beyond Enemies

Tom Kidd, 1638: The Sovereign States
Tom Kidd, House of Rough Diamonds
Tom Kidd, An Angel Called Peterbilt

Todd Lockwood, Hyde & Seek
Todd Lockwood, The Eccentrics

David Mattingly, Salvage Right
David Mattingly, Toll of Honor
David Mattingly, Ribbon Dance

Kurt Miller, Endangered Species
Kurt Miller, Very Important Corpses
Kurt Miller, Through the Storm
Kurt Miller, The Dyson File
Kurt Miller, Protected Species
Kurt Miller, Weird World War: China
Kurt Miller, United We Stand
Kurt Miller, Admiral and Commander
Kurt Miller, The Thermopylae Protocol
Kurt Miller, Tales from the United States Space Force

Alan Pollack, They’re Here!
Alan Pollack, Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever

Dave Seeley, Lord of a Shattered Land
Dave Seeley, The City of Marble and Blood
Dave Seeley, The Icarus Twin
Dave Seeley, Beggar’s Sky
Dave Seeley, The Icarus Job

Eric Williams, My Brother’s Keeper

Kieran Yanner, Between Princesses and Other Jobs
Kieran Yanner, Dirty Water
Kieran Yanner, Among the Gray Lords
Kieran Yanner, Disquiet Gods

Looking for something to read? Of course you are

This just in!

Chicks in Tank Tops, edited by Jason Cordova, including a whole buncha stories by a whole buncha swell writers, including Esther Friesner, Joelle Presby, David Drake, Jody Lynn Nye, Lee & Miller, and more! is now available as an audiobook. Here’s your link.

And as if that weren’t exciting enough, you may now preorder from your favorite vendor, Last Train Outta Kepler 283C, edited by David Boop. Check out the table of contents:

David Boop, Introduction
Kevin Ikenberry, Time Marches On
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Last Train to Clarkesville
Kelli Fitzpatrick, The Rogue Tractor of Sunshine Gulch
David Mack, Living by the Sword
M. Tod Gallowglas, The Ballad of the Junk Heap Man and Mistress Bullet
Dr. Chesya Burke, This World Belongs to Monsters
John Stith, Jasper and the Mare
D.J. Butler, Support Your Local Audit Chief
Lezli Robyn, Grace Under Fire
Christopher Smith, Last Transport to Kepler-283c
David Afsharirad, The Double R Bar Ranch On Alpha Centuri 5
Mel Todd, Not My Problem
Mark L. Van Name, Enjoy Every Sandwich

Here’s the Amazon preorder link

RIBBON DANCE eARC available NOW

What it says. Here’s your link.

It’s a wonderful night for a Ribbon Dance

First things being first — I am under the impression that the Ribbon Dance eARC will drop Sometime Today. Here’s your link to the Baen eARC page.

For those joining us after the break, an eARC is a Baen Tradition, in which electronic A(dvance)R(eading)C(opies) are offered to those readers who Simply Cannot Wait for the release of the hardcover/ebook, three months down the road. eARCs may contain errors that do not appear in the finished book. In the case of Ribbon Dance, such errors will be on the level of typos and broken sentences — which is to say, not story-altering.

In other news, tomorrow will be the fourth anniversary of my mastectomy. Also! Gifford’s ice cream stand, which is a scant half mile from the Cat Farm, will reopen for the season tomorrow. No, these things are not related, saving that I may go out for ice cream tomorrow afternoon, in support of local business.

My brother-in-law and nephew came up from mid-Coast for a couple days and helped me get a lot accomplished, including pulling a bunch of boxes out of Steve’s closet, which went in there 6 years ago and were never heard from again, cleaning out the Goblin Room and the Winter Room, clearing the garage, and even doing some needed yard work. It would have taken me months to do what they did in two days.

I’m left with details in terms of papers and photographs and the … things that one accumulates just by having lived a busy life.

I will say that, having seen Steve’s brother in action — I knew Steve had been getting tired, but not how tired he actually was. I couldn’t have done anything about it, and I know that, but it still leaves me feeling like I let the side down.

Well.

Monday, I’ll be starting what I hope to be a long-term exercise class at the Community Center, which meets at 8:15 M/W/F. I have apparently acquired the vice of early rising, so this ought to be perfectly doable, and provide the dual benefits of exercise, and human interaction.

I think that gets us caught up for the moment.

Oh, wait.

Here, have some pictures of coon cats.

Sprite atop the file cabinet

Firefly at the top of the living room cat tree

DOORS INTO CHANGE now Available!

Doors Into Change, by Sharon Lee, featuring three stories in her contemporary fantasy Carousel Series, is now available as an ebook from the following vendors:

Amazon Baen Universal link to 8 vendors including BN, Kobo, Smashwords

It is also available in a paper edition from Amazon.

Doors includes two short stories and a novelette.

“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.

Archers Beach Pull-Quotes Needed

OK! Folks have been working the Liaden Universe® pull-quote fields, now it’s time to up the ante!

I need your favorite pull-quotes from the Archers Beach Trilogy by Sharon Lee — that is Carousel Tides, Carousel Sun, Carousel Seas. This is to assist Baen in a new PR project.

A pull-quote looks like this. Please follow the form. We do need the title, and the speaker.

“Dammit, Marilyn!” I overrode her. “We’re already pulling a rabbit out of a hat here, and now you’ve got the goddamn nerve to ask for a kangaroo?” — Kate Archer, Carousel Tides

Post as many as you like. Remember! Short and snappy is the key!