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12:47 PM PST, March 5, 2006
Where did the time go?
Since the last time I posted, Boskone happened, along with a short appearance on television, as Steve reported in his plog. One of the high points of the convention was meeting Artist Guest of Honor Donato Giancola. Donato painted the covers for our last three Meisha Merlin books, and will also be doing the cover for the upcoming Web of the Trident, sequel to The Tomorrow Log . We got a chance to chat with him about our ideas and the characters, and to visit with the original paintings for Balance of Trade, Crystal Soldier and Crystal Dragon.
Soon after we arrived home from the con, we received, via Meisha Merlin's agent, a copy of the Russian omnibus edition of Plan B and I Dare, which was a pleasant surprise. There are rumors also of a Russian edition of Pilots Choice, but the authors' copy hasn't quite made it to Maine yet.
In general, it's been a quiet month, hereabouts. We've been doing what we do -- write. Added to that now is waiting -- waiting for the truck bringing the cases Crystal Dragon, so we can sign them for the folks who were kind enough to pre-order from Meisha Merlin. When the truck arrives, we'll be in a flurry of activity for a week or two: signing, packing, mailing. And then it'll be time to zip on out to Michigan, for Penguicon 4.0.
A month of relative peace and quiet, before the busyness? Sounds like a good idea.
And hoping you're all the same.
8:25 AM PST, February 5, 2006
It's been a week full of odd and strange news, personal and professional. On the writing side of things, we have the following notes of possible interest:
We're very pleased to be able to announce that our book Sword of Orion (Beneath Strange Skies, Book 1) has debuted at Number Three on the Locus Magazine Bestseller List. Go, Jerel!
Steve has gotten the nod from the crew at AboutSF to join their speaker's bureau. This will be a great opportunity for him to share his experiences from the academic side of SF. For those who don't know, Steve was the founding curator of the Albin O. Kuhn Library's Science Fiction Research Collection, housed at the University of Maryland's Baltimore County Campus, in Catonsville, Maryland. If you need a science fiction speaker, look to AboutSF!
In April, just in time for our Author Guest of Honor appearance at Penguicon 4.0 SRM Publisher, Ltd. will be publishing Calamity's Child. This chapbook will contain two stories, "A Night at the Opera," which first appeared in Rosemary Edghill's critically acclaimed Murder by Magic : Twenty Tales of Crime and the Supernatural and "Sweet Waters," which was first published in 3SF in the UK and in Absolute Magnitude in the US. You can read snippets of those two stories by following the SRM link, above.
In June, Meisha Merlin will be reprinting Partners in Necessity in both hardcover and trade paper . For those who may not know, Partners collects the first three Liaden Universe(R) novels, Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, and Carpe Diem. The original omnibus was published in 2000, as a limited-run hardcover, and a widely available trade paper, and has since gone out of print. We're delighted to see it coming back!
And, last but not least, we have our schedule for Boskone 43 which is reproduced below for your interest. It looks like it's going to be a fun convention, and we are of course eager to have our first look at Crystal Dragon (The Great Migration Duology, Book 2) , and meeting Artist Guest of Honor Donato Giancola, who has been painting such beautiful covers for us. We will be signing with Donato at the Meisha Merlin table during the con.
If you're in the area, drop on by; NESFA does great convention!
Lee and Miller's Boskone Schedule
Thursday 7-9 pm Lee and Miller sign Crystal Dragon at Pandemonium Books in Harvard Square
Friday 6:00 pm How to Make SF More Inviting to Teens
Ellen Asher, Bruce Coville, Sharon Lee, Clayton L. McNally (Moderator), Mary A. Turzillo
Friday 7:00 pm Trends in SF Publishing: Technology
Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Clayton L. McNally, Steve Miller (M), Don Sakers
Friday 7:00 pm Reading (etc.) -- Internal or Published Chronology?
Ellen Asher, Sharon Lee (M), Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Steven Sawicki, Joe Siclari
Friday 9:30 pm 1/2 hr Reading (0.5 hrs)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Saturday 12:30 pm Literary Beer
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Saturday 2:00 pm Learning the (Small Press) World
Ernest Lilley (M), Steve Miller, Don Sakers
Saturday 3:00 pm Meta Stories: Blending of Series of Books
Ginjer Buchanan, Steve Miller (M), Tamora Pierce, Melissa Scott, Ann Tonsor Zeddies
Sunday 11:00 am Autographing
Sunday 2:00 pm Preserving Culture in Small Systems
Tobias Buckell, F. Brett Cox, Michael F. Flynn, Sharon Lee (M), Ken MacLeod
Thanks for listening!
Sharon and Steve
7:05 AM PST, January 30, 2006
We're back from our Guest of Honor gig at COSine, where we had a super time with fellow authors Ed Bryant, Sarah and Dan Hoyt, Rebecca and Alan Lickiss, Wil McCarthy, John Stith, and Carrie Vaughn. Friends of Liad, including TeamNoSleep members Elaine, Thuy, Deb, and Angie, variously drove and flew in to host the Liaden Lounge (complete with lizards), which was the place to be on Saturday night. Kudos and applause to COSine chairperson Mem Morman and the rest of the committee for hosting a big little con that was lots of fun.
Upon our arrival home, we found the page proofs for the upcoming Ace edition of Balance of Trade awaiting our attention, and have been occupying our leisure hours with the pursuit of tyops and scanning errors. Also immediately on our plate is writing the sequel to Tomorrow Log, and a story for an upcoming anthology (arrangements at COSine, in the presence of a room full of witnesses!). Who said the writing life was dull?
Sharon and Steve
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