{"id":2138,"date":"2026-06-04T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T20:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2026-06-04T22:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:25:03","slug":"liaden-read-along-auctorial-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/?p=2138","title":{"rendered":"Liaden Read-Along Auctorial Note"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the read-along has gotten derailed, in part because it’s a Home Truth that Writers need to Write, if they wanna get paid, and especially if they have a contract promising that they will<\/em> get paid, if they do Thus and also So.<\/p>\n

I have two books under contract, one due next year sometime, and it had become … rather important that I pick which one I was going to write next.<\/p>\n

The two possibilities were!\u00a0 The fourth and final novel dealing with Jethri Gobelyn ven’Deelin, which is at this writing so<\/em> late it was carried over from a previous contract, and what may perhaps be the final Padi yos’Galan book.<\/p>\n

I was having a hard time choosing, frankly.\u00a0 Part of the problem was that, though I had been lead on (both iterations of) Balance of Trade<\/em>, I had not been moved in the direction of writing anything else about Jethri.<\/p>\n

Continuing the sub-series was Steve’s vision; he liked Jethri and his regard was returned, so I left them to it, and, during the spaces when Steve was lead on a Jethri book, wrote the Carousel series.<\/p>\n

What this meant is that I had a … lack of confidence regarding my ability to wrap up Jethri’s adventures.<\/p>\n

I had just come to Balance of Trade<\/em> in the Liaden read-along, in fact, and decided, in the spirit of flipping a coin to step out of line and read Trade Secret<\/em> and Fair Trade\u00a0<\/em>immediately thereafter.<\/p>\n

I also read Ribbon Dance<\/em>, to give Padi her chance.<\/p>\n

Long story short, I came to the conclusion that I can work with Jethri, so the next book up is Trade Lanes<\/em>, working out from the three novels, and building on the notes and drafts Steve left behind.<\/p>\n

However satisfying it is to have made a decision and started to work, this process has truly scrambled the read-along from my end.<\/p>\n

For those who are still checking in, I will be transcribing my notes for the Jethri books, and for the Crystal books, while picking up my own reading of the Universe with Fledgling<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Follow this link<\/a> to introduction for Balance of Trade.<\/p>\n

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So, the read-along has gotten derailed, in part because it’s a Home Truth that Writers need to Write, if they wanna get paid, and especially if they have a contract promising that they will get paid, if they do Thus and also So. I have two books under contract, one due next year sometime, and … Continue reading Liaden Read-Along Auctorial Note<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liaden-read-along"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}