As one of the loyal minions, it occurs to me that some of you may not be aware that Eric's semi-monthly editors column at Jim Baen's Universe is free and open to read without a subscription.
Therefore, I think it might be appropriate to post links to those essays here, since Eric "blogs" on Baen's Bar and in his Universe editorial column rather than on his web site, leaving most of the content here to his crew of minions. There are two sets of columns "Salvos Against Big Brother" – which is Eric's take on the long-running copyright and drm debate, and "The Editor's Page."
I'm including links to both below.
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Eric will be Guest of Honor at ConDor XIV in San Diego, CA.
For more information about the ConDor con, please visit their website.
– Loyal Minions
The forthcoming page is somewhat out of date, but until we can get it fixed up, here's the master's schedule in his own words, quoting from a Baen's Bar post on Jan 17, 07
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Now that 1824: The Arkansas War is out, Del Rey has graciously allowed us to post the ENTIRE text of 1812: The Rivers of War on this site, Eric's blog, and the Baen Free Library.
We have the production PDF, which is not the most convenient form to read. We strongly recommend that you download the file to your local computer to read. So, without further ado, here the pdf of 1812: The Rivers of War .
And in Further news…. Arnold Bailey, the Chief wizard of Webscriptions has _already_ got it up in the Baen Free Library.
Jump to there to see the other formats available at http://webscriptions.net/pc-588-1-1812-the-rivers-of-war.aspx
(Thanks Arnold!)
1634: The Baltic War is available for pre-order at Amazon , and Tom Kidd's cover is pretty darned cool. If you haven't been following the early snippets, you probably want to.
By now, everyone assiciated with Baen authors is doubtless aware that Jim Baen has suffered a stroke, and is in a coma. For information available, you should visit Baen's Bar at http://bar.baen.com and go to the waiting-romm conference.
In other news:
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Loyal Minion news and notes May ’06
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Newly under contract with Baen, 1635: Symphony for the Devil with David Carrico. For those of you who follow the Grantville Gazette, that’s the Franz and Marla stories.
1634: The Baltic War is now officially scheduled for hardcover publication in May 2007. You may perform the usual back-calculations to figure out webscription, e-arc and snippet availability.
– The Loyal Minions
Travel plans announced to date:
- I-Con March 24-26 Stoney Brook University, NY
- Eric Flint and Ryk Spoor (Not a Baen’s Universe event probably; there is not time to set it up)
- Nebula Awards Weekend May 4 – 7, Tempe, AZ
- Eric Flint and David Weber will be presenting the first ever Andre Norton award.
- Sarah Hoyt (Eric’s co-author and a member of the Baen’s Universe editorial board) will be attending.
- Convergence July 7 – 9, Bloomington, MN
- Eric Flint and David Weber will be there.. David Weber GoH, Eric Flint “Past GoH”
- Conestoga July 28 – 30, Tulsa, OK
- David Drake GoH
- Rick Boatright & Paula Goodlett will be there. (No they’re not authors, No, Eric won’t be there, but there will be a “Universe” presense and we thought you might want to know.)
- 1632 Minicon IV – Aug 4-5-6, Mannington, WV
- Eric Flint, Virginia DeMarce, Paula Goodlett, Rick Boatright, and a host of others.
- WorldCon August 23 – 27, Los Angeles, CA
- Eric Flint and countless other authors.
- Con-Stellation October 20-22, Huntville, AL
- Eric will be attending, David Drake GoH, with Toni Weisskopf
- World Fantasy Con November 2 – 5, Austin, Texas.
- Eric Flint and David Drake and a host of others. Note that membership to WFC is strictly limited.