Category: Shameless Self-Promotion

All the News that’s Fit to Print

1   The eARC of Liaden Universe® Volume Five is now available for purchase at Baen.com.  Here’s your link.

1a  LUC 5 includes these stories: 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, and an authors’ foreword.

1b  LUC5 will be published on February 1, 2022 in trade and ebook.

1c  You may preorder the trade edition from your favorite vendor*.

2   Fair Trade, the 24th novel in the Liaden Universe®, the third book detailing the adventures of Jethri Gobelyn ven’Deelin, is now available for preorder in hardcover* from the Usual Suspects.  It will be published on May 3, 2022.**

2a  The previous books in the Jethri arc are:  Balance of Trade and Trade Secret

3   “From Every Storm a Rainbow,” featuring a Liaden Universe® “holiday” story featuring Sinit Caylon will be available for your free reading pleasure at Baen.com on-or-about November 15

4   Watch the skies for a Pinbeam chapbook collecting all the so-called “bakery” stories, including new story, “Our Lady of Benevolence.”

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*Baen ebooks are never available for preorder — this has to do with Baen’s long-standing tradition of making eARCs available.  The ebook edition will be published on the day the paper edition publishes and will be available for purchase at that time from Baen, Amazon, BN, Apple, Kobo, and so on.

**We have no news of an audiobook edition at this time.  Be certain that we will shout this news from the rooftops, once it is in our possession.

Fair Trade available for preorder

Fair Trade is the 24th novel in the Liaden Universe® created and written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.  This title is the direct sequel to 2013’s Trade Secret and the third book detailing the adventures of Jethri Gobelyn, a Terran who has been apprenticed to a Liaden Master Trader.
Cover art is by David Mattingly.
Fair Trade hardcover is available for preorder from Amazon, and I suppose other places that do preorders. Publication date is May 3, 2022. Amazon link:
    1. There will be an ebook edition; the reason you can’t preorder the ebook has to do with Baen’s tradition of offering eARCS.
2. No word on when the eARC will be available — usually it’s been hitting 6-8 weeks out.
 
3. We assume there will be an audiobook edition, but we don’t know if that’s valid or, if it is, who the narrator will be.
 
4. Mass market paperback editions usually hit about a year after the publication of the hardcover.
 
Please share this happy news with  your family, your friends, your reading group, and strangers chance-met on the street.

Trader’s Leap Mass Market

Shameless Self Promotion!
 
This is specifically aimed at those folks who Wait for The Mass Market, so if you already have the hardcover or the ebook or the audiobook, you may avert your eyes.
 
OK then, Mass Market Readers! The mmp edition of Trader’s Leap, the 23rd novel in the Liaden Universe®, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, owner-operators, will be available on September 28. That’s next Tuesday!
 
Buy it from the vendor of your choice, please. And do recall that Reviews Help Authors.
 
Thank you.

Mid-season catch-up

You know what’s happening in eight short days?  Besides Steve’s birthday, I mean.

That’s right!  BAD ACTORS: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 33, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller — will publish in ebook form.  Right now you can preorder from Amazon, Apple, BN, Kobo, and a bunch of other online vendors.  On July 31, you will be able to buy the ebook directly from Baen.

Right now, you can buy the paper edition of BAD ACTORS from Amazon (surprising no one), and Books-A-Million (surprising everyone).  In theory, you will eventually also be able to buy the paper edition from BN, and Bookstores to be Named Later.

I only have figures from Amazon at the moment, and it looks like 39 paperbacks have shipped; and ebook preorders have just hit 450.  That’s — pretty good.  Thank you all.

In other news, Steve and I are on course to handing in Fair Trade, the sequel to 2013’s Trade Secret on Monday.  Madame the Publisher tells us that Fair Trade will be a 2022 summer book, and that David Mattingly will be creating the cover art.

Once Fair Trade is turned in, we’ll have two short stories and three novels still under contract.

…and that gets us caught up for the moment.

BAD ACTORS available for pre-order

BAD ACTORS:  Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 33, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, published by Pinbeam Books, is now available for pre-order.  Links follow the Short, Obligatory FAQ.

  1.  YES, you will be able to purchase the ebook from Baen when it publishes, on July 31.  You can’t pre-order from Baen, because they don’t do that for non-Baen books.
  2.  YES, there will be a paper edition, eventually.  Amazon does not do pre-orders of paper books which are produced through CreateSpace or whatever Amazon’s print arm is called today.
  3.  YES, all three stories are reprints.  The stories are:  “Excerpts from Two Lives” (Star Destroyers, Baen, March 2018); “Dark Secrets” (Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers, Titan, November 2019); “Revolutionists” (The Razor’s Edge, Zombies Need Brains, June 2018)
  4.  YES, it is perfectly legitimate for authors to reprint their own work, sell their previously published work to reprint anthologies.  This is done All The Time.  It is not a scam.

Everybody good?  Cool.  Here are your links to pre-order the ebook edition of BAD ACTORS: Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 33, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller:
Amazon
Apple Books
Barnes & Noble
Bol.de
Kobo
Thalia

We’re really proud of this cover, BTW. Have another look.

 

Watch the skies

Frantic deadline writing continues, and!  We have a title for the novel, which IS a Jethri novel, and that title is!

FAIR TRADE

In the midst of All That (yes, yes, but you — at least I — have to give my brain something to do while the backroom is slapping together the rough of the next scene besides play endless rounds of Lumeno), the thirty-third Adventures in the Liaden Universe® chapbook, BAD ACTORS, is in process.  The Tyop Hunters are returning their results, and I’m looking at putting the chapbook up for pre-order next week, with an eye toward a July 31 release date.

BAD ACTORS collects three previously published Liaden short stories that fell through the cracks in our reprint process, due in equal parts to differing availability dates (one story had an 18-month exclusivity period, the others had a year), and the publication of the various Liaden Universe® Constellations.  All three stories feature people who might have chosen better, and all three were commissioned.  No, I don’t know why three different editors wanted stories that practically begged for Protags With Questionable Morals(tm).

The stories included are!  Excerpts from Two Lives, Dark Secrets, and Revolutionists.  As it happens, two of them were principally written by Steve, one by me.  So, you can have fun trying to decide which is which.  Possibly this could be made into a drinking game.  Or, yanno, not.

Watch this space, and other spaces where Things Liaden are discussed, for news.  Be sure that when pre-orders open, we will shout it from the highest buildings available.

While you’re waiting, here’s another look at the cover art.

Cover reveal!

Coming to a bookstore near you in February 2022, A Liaden Universe® Constellation, Volume 5. Art by Sam Kennedy. Stories by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
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

Hugo nominations close March 19

I am reminded that the Hugo nomination period ends on March 19, 2021, and asked for a reminder of what Lee and Miller did in 2020 that is eligible for nomination.
 
Here is the list of those works, *including* the fact that the Entire Liaden Universe(R) is eligible for the Series Hugo.
 
Your link: https://sharonleewriter.com/2021/01/award-eligibility-post/

Updatery

Change State:  Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 32, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, including reprint short story “Command Decision,” and brand-new novella “Dead Men Dream” is now available for download from all the usual vendors.

Here’s a link to Change State on Baen

Here’s the link to the Amazon page, including both ebook and paper editions.

Here’s a so-called “Universal Link.”

Once you have read Change State, Steve and I would take it kindly if you would review it in the venue(s) of your choice.  Thank you.

In audiobook news, Steve and I have an appointment with Trade Secret’s narrator, Eileen Stevens, this Sunday evening.  So, yes, there will be an audiobook, and forward motion is, er, motioning.

In author health news, I had my first Covid shot — the Pfizer — yesterday, and in just a couple hours Steve will be getting his second shot of the Moderna.  So, yes, we are a two-vaccine household.

Everybody stay safe.