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Excerpt
The excerpt is from a still-unfinished fantasy novel I've worked on in odd moments for about 20 years. This portion was published as "And Hawks For Heralds" in Quiet Magic in 1999.
Fifty days ago he and his men had been hurried out of DaChauxma on the order of his Lady and her new wizard. Since then he'd gathered to him a magic map, a coin sectioned by a wizard's will, a one-night lover who slept with a glowing talisman around her neck....
Fifty days ago he'd have ridden through a thunderstorm to avoid stopping in a meadow said to have been a wizard's vantage. Now, he merely did his best to move on quickly.
Bio
Steve Miller attended Clarion West in 1973 and began placing science fiction in professional markets in 1975. In the '70s he was President of the Instructors of Science Fiction in Higher Education, Curator of Science Fiction for the University of Maryland's Kuhn Library at UMBC, and Director of Information for BSFS -- the Baltimore Science Fantasy Society.
Steve is the author, with Sharon Lee, of Agent of Change and seventeen other books in one of the better known series in SF today, the Liaden Universe® series. Individual works in the series have garnered honors, including the Prism Award for Best Futuristic Science Fiction and the Hal Clement Award for Best Young Adult Science Fiction, and most have multiple translated editions. In addition to the Liaden books, Steve and Sharon have collaborated on short stories, anthologies, and on other science fiction and fantasy novels, with Duainfey, their latest, to be published by Baen Books in September. They currently offer a popular weekly online novel serialization, Saltation.
Publications
Our almost-weekly online and ongoing story is currently Saltation: http://www.korval.com/Saltation. Our electronic books can mostly be found at: http://www.webscription.net/s-118-steve-miller.aspx.
Ace is due to reprint 10 Liaden novels starting in November.
Writing Description
I write to entertain, so my writing overtly favors the character/adventure/fulfillment story-building triad. Even serious stories should have fun elements, even idea-stories ought to morph into stories about people rather than stories about things or explicit agendas.
Goals
My plan is to write a near-future hard SF story of 6,000 to 10,000 words, as if I were writing it for Ted White when he was at Amazing...I haven't done much near future for a while, after all.
Fundraising goals: I've never engaged in this kind of thing before. How about pledges totaling $1000 before the end of WorldCon?
Website
My web presence is always changing -- my blog, Journeyman, at kinzel.livejournal.com is a (usually low-key) way to find out what's up with me; I'm Elan Neruda in Second Life -- ask for me on Chatrez Island; go to http://korval.com/liad for Liaden news or find the Infodump at
http://rolanni.livejournal.com/tag/infodump.
