Steve Miller
Excerpt
There was a cat, brownish orange, with a distinct grin, staring at the pilot from the rear view screen. It hadn't been there a few seconds before, and its position was such that it appeared in danger of slipping off the slick exoskin and sliding into the void with the least hint of thrust or touch of atmosphere.
From Dragon Ship, in progress, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Bio
In addition to his own body of short fiction, Steve Miller is co-author of the best-selling Liaden Universe® series written with his wife, Sharon Lee. Together they have published seventeen novels and dozens of short works, garnering a number of awards as well as invitations as Guests of Honor and Special Guests at SF cons coast to coast in the US and Canada.
Steve entered the SF community as a club and fanzine fan as well as a professional critic in the late 1960s; his short fiction appeared in the small press before he broke into Ted White's Amazing in the mid-1970s after attending Clarion West in 1973. He went on to work with Damon Knight and other writers as Curator of Science Fiction for the UMBC SF Research Collection. Steve was Vice Chair of the Baltimore in 80 WorldCon bid, editor at the pioneering ebook company BPLAN Virtuals and later founded SRM Publisher. Much of his joint work with Sharon Lee is also available in Polish, German, and Russian translations.
The most recent Liaden novel is Mouse and Dragon (June 2010). Another novel, the Liaden sequel Ghost Ship, will appear in August 2011, with three more under contract.
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Writing Description
I write to entertain; that there's more than entertainment in it is a bonus I treasure.
Goals
I plan to finish the first draft/rough draft of Dragon Ship, a Liaden Universe® novel, during the Write-a-thon.
My goal is $518 (and perhaps multiples thereof) -- representing the current round-trip standard fare of a Greyhound bus ticket from Baltimore to Seattle -- in honor of my 1973 cross country adventure.
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