The last bundle of five Pinbeam Books titles has gone up for sale today at Baen ebooks. Here’s your link.
The November bundle includes:
Master Walk, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Surfside, Archers Beach #4, by Sharon Lee
The Gift of Magic, Archers Beach #5, by Sharon Lee
Spell Bound, Archers Beach #6, by Sharon Lee
TimeRags, by Steve Miller
You may also buy each title separately, if you prefer.
Steve and I will be handing the Keys to the Cat Farm to the housesitter early tomorrow morning, after which we’ll be getting on the road to Providence, and the Rhode Island Comic Con. Since this convention doesn’t have a literature track, we will not be doing any panels, or readings, but we will be at the Wordfire Press booth in the Dealer’s Room at Booth 124, signing books and creating mischief.
Everybody stay safe.
It’s raining in East Winslow, and aims to do so all day. So, fine. I have a section, ahem, “outlined” and words to go before I sleep.
In the meantime, your Friday morning adverts.
As a reward for reading this far, here’s a snippet:
“Only think! I may call upon soldiers and specialists. You may call upon — forgive me — a gaggle of pilots. While they are very fine pilots, they are of little use to us in the absence of –“
Splinter Universe has been a little quiet lately. So! Just to prove to the landlord that we still live there: “The Road to Pomona’s,” by Sharon Lee, with author’s commentary, is now live.
Where I live, today is Columbus Day (observed). Which means there’s no mail delivery. Two Sundays in one week is kinda harsh. . .
Today’s big news!
The second of three Pinbeam Book bundles is now available for purchase at Baen ebooks. The titles included in the October Bundle are: Endeavors of Will, Sharon Lee; Gunshy (the sequel to Barnburner), Sharon Lee; The Naming of Kinzel, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller; The Cat’s Job, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller; The Day They Brought the Bears to Belfast, Sharon Lee.
. . .you may also buy each title separately from that link.
In other news, I seem to have caught Steve’s cold, so no gym for me today. Better luck tomorrow.
Today will be a writing day, commencing, as soon as I post this blog entry, with a session of sitting-on-the-couch-staring-at-nothing. I’m always amazed when people treat the “creative process” like some kind of cognitive mystery. All you have to do is stare at nothing, hard, until the bead of blood form on your forehead, and the backbrain has pity and forks over.
See? Easy.
So! Things are starting to heat up, in A Night in the Lonesome October. Somebody’s shown Bad Form, and somebody else is offended. The Things are getting restive, and the lines are confused. Not only that, but there’s a new fellow in the neighborhood, who is strangely determined to befriend Jack and Snuff; and the Great Detective is afoot.
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“Yes, I am familiar with your candor, and the limits placed upon it. I will ask carefully, Translator. I would not unwittingly cause you pain.”
As advertised, Steve and I are reading A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny one chapter a night, starting on September 30, and ending on Halloween (some folks have reported being able to download this as an ebook; I can’t find it myself, so if anyone can give a tip to those still looking, it would be appreciated).
So far, on our journey, we’ve met Snuff, our narrator; Jack; the graveyard dog; Greymalk; Cheeter; Needle — and heard news of Nightwind; Morris and McCab; the Great Detective and his companion; Crazy Jill; the Mad Monk Rastoff; Quicklime; the Count; and the kindly Druid. And let us not forget that curious paw print in the yard…
Mysteries are starting to pile up, and there turns up a curious question — Are you an opener? or a closer?#
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Yesterday, the coon cats and I spent many hours on the sofa, mapping out the Rest of the Story. We decided to cut out one narrative line for lack of space, and package it as a short story; and I think have a working strategy for getting everyone at the corner of Elm and 10th Street at the same hour on the date appointed. I have pointed the Auctorial Finger of Doom at several characters. We’ll see how well I do this time.
The whole stream of consciousness doc has gone to Steve for review. There is a brainstorming session in our very near future.
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Let’s see, what else?
Steve and I have been making an effort to bring more light into the house — this is in literal, rather than the metaphorical, sense. To that end, we have acquired an LED arc lamp to illuminate the living room. Steve has replaced his ancient (WWII vintage) desk lamp with a jazzy new LED lamp; I have a reading lamp in my upgraded reading corner, and we have placed a torche-thingy in the bedroom, which we’ve angle at the ceiling, and which illuminates the whole room.
What a difference a few lamps makes.
On that theme, my desk lamp (with full spectrum light tubes) blew out on Saturday. I’ve ordered in a replacement bulb, which will be here, it says here, on Friday. And not a moment too soon.
We still need to do something better about illuminating the bathroom and the kitchen. I’m thinking we should look into LED bulbs to replace the big globe- lights-onna-bar that were fashionable a while back, since we’re working with what we’ve got as much as possible. The kitchen. . .
The kitchen will require Creative Thinking.
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So, it’s Wednesday, and I’m for the volunteer gig in a little while. While I’m gone, you can read the Spotlight interview from Locus, here (please note that this is a pdf file): lee-miller-locus-oct-2016
I hope everybody has a pleasant day.
Today is October 1, which means Locus has pubbed its ish, and it is available electronically this morning to those of us who subscribe.
In it, we find that!
Steve and I thank you all for your support of our work — and of our cats! — during this long, strange trip we’re on. And we most especially thank you for your enthusiasm for Alliance of Equals.
Aaaah. Fame.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to grab another cup of coffee so I can vacuum the house before going to work for the day.
Here — Steve’s wandering around the house humming this, so y’all might as well share the earworm with him. “The Cover of the Rolling Stone,” Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show. Here’s your link.
Pinbeam Books (that’s me and Steve), the granddaughter of SRM Publisher, has signed a distribution agreement with Baen ebooks. The first five books are now available here, either as a bundle, or separately.
October and November will each see the release of five more books, which ought to catch everyone up.
The catalog has not yet been updated to include links to Baen; that will be done as time and attention allow.
Here’s the link to Pinbeam Books.
All the way back in May, Steve and I were interviewed by Jean Marie Ward on behalf of Zombies Need Brains, which brings you, among other fine anthologies, Alien Artifacts, in which we, among a glittering cast of our colleagues, have a story.
. . .and a marvelous thing has happened already.
As I sit here, drinking my first cup of coffee, and updating this blog. . .
Alliance of Equals has achieved. . .
Thank you all so very, very much.
And, oh, hey — you over in the corner, who hadn’t gotten a chance to write a review yet? Yeah, you.
Your review will be most welcome, too. We don’t have to stop at 201; though we can certainly take a well-deserved breather.
*everybody breathe*
Aaaaaah.
So, OK. Today is a hospital day, which means I need to move on to my second cup of coffee realsoonnow. There’s bidness to be done when I return, seeing as I finished writing a scene yesterday, instead of doing bidness.
Tomorrow is, so I say now, as full a writing day as I can manage (note to Self: put cell phones in freezer), and a screening of Kubo and the Two Strings (which, for a wonder, will be appearing at the Waterville Flagship Cinema) penciled in for Friday.
And that? Is all I got.
No, wait; it’s not.
I’ve got a snippet. Here y’are:
Best to accomplish the task at once, while biology was ascendant.
There was no need for the mentor to suffer, after all.