Steve and I had intended to write a new story for the Liaden Universe\u00ae Silver Anniversary, but. . .<\/p>\n
The world has been just a little too much with us.\u00a0 Deadlines, real-life matters, including the fact that we — or at least I — have been under quite a bit of heavy weather.<\/p>\n
So, anyway, the brand-new story went on hold — after all, this is the twenty-fifth year <\/em>of the Liaden Universe\u00ae; plenty of time to write a new story when the schedule becomes, shall we say, a little less action-packed and filled with excitement?<\/p>\n Still. . .we felt that the occasion of February — the month in which It All Began, back in 1988, with Agent of Change<\/em>, and the month that It All Continues, with the publication of Necessity’s Child <\/em>— we felt that the occasion should be marked in some way.<\/p>\n Which is why we’re offering a splinter; the first 12,000-ish words of the Lute and Moonhawk novel we put aside in 1996, meaning to get back to it, someday.<\/p>\n We hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n Here’s the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve and I had intended to write a new story for the Liaden Universe\u00ae Silver Anniversary, but. . . The world has been just a little too much with us.\u00a0 Deadlines, real-life matters, including the fact that we — or at least I — have been under quite a bit of heavy weather. So, anyway, … Continue reading A new splinter for the Silver Anniversary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splinteruniverse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}