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    Moon's Honor: Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #20
    Moon's Honor: Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #20
    Moon's Honor: Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #20
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    Moon's Honor: Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #20

    By Sharon Lee and Steve Miller

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    A faction of renegade priestesses is seeking to circumvent the Dyan City High Priestess to outlaw "hedge magicians." Their reason is that such "bogus magic" confuses the simple, and diverts awe and respect that ought to be reserved for the true magic worked by priestesses in the name of the Goddess.

    Meanwhile, Master Magician Lute arrives in Dyan City on Beltane Eve, driven there by the will of the Goddess.

    Is he a sacrifice? Or is he the Hammer of the Goddess?

    A novelette detailing a first meeting between priestess of the Goddess, Moonhawk, and traveling magician, Lute.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPinbeam Books
    Release dateAug 11, 2016
    ISBN9781935224983
    Moon's Honor: Adventures in the Liaden Universe®, #20
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    Sharon Lee

    Sharon Lee has worked with children of various ages and backgrounds, including a preschool, a local city youth bureau, and both junior and senior high youth groups. She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and also in psychology. Sharon cares about people and wildlife. She has been an advocate in the fight against human trafficking and a help to stray and feral animals in need.

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      Moon's Honor - Sharon Lee

      On Casting Your Fate to the Moon

      The Lee-Miller writing team is often given credit for the scope, depth, and tightness of our plotting.  Readers are thrilled to think that we could have already known, 'way back in 1984, when Agent of Change was written, that this-or-that seemingly random piece of business put into narrative by Val Con and Miri would be a valuable assist to Theo, in 2010, when Ghost Ship was written.

      While we're pleased to accept any laurels tossed in our direction, what we actually deserve credit for are retentive memories and extraordinarily facile back-brains.

      Because, of course we didn't—and don't—plot twenty-six years and thirteen books out.  No, what we excel at isn't plotting, but remembering that random bit of business, and apprehending the problem to which it is an answer in the on-going tale of Clan Korval, its allies, and its enemies.  Call it, if you will, retroactive plotting.

      Of course, that's not to say that we don't plan—or plot—ahead.  Moon's Honor is a case in point.

      See, 'way back in 1984, when we were writing Agent of Change, and plotting out seven books in series, we were also plotting out a secondary narrative line that would include several novels. That secondary narrative would chronicle the adventures of Moonhawk and Lute, serially reincarnated characters who operate in what seems, at first, to be a fantasy world.  The plan, back then, was to move that pair of characters along in time until their thread intersected with the frankly science fictional thread following Clan Korval.

      Well, the publishing industry—what we'll call reality—didn't favor that plan—or plot.  The seven-book SF thread was shot down at Book Three—we never even got a chance to propose the Lute and Moonhawk thread.

      During the years in which we were out of contract, we wrote a couple short stories about the pair—see Fellow Traveler's:  Adventures in the Liaden Universe® Number 2, available as an ebook from Amazon, BN, and Smashwords—and they of course play a strong supporting role as the allies of  Rool Tiazan and his lady, in Crystal Dragon.

      That brings us roughly to late 1996—eleven years after we laid our Grand Plan and seven years after it all fell to dust and ashes.  We had written, in our copious free time, The Tomorrow Log, Local Custom, Scout's Progress, and Plan B, plus numerous short stories.  And we said to ourselves something along the lines of, Well, since we basically writing for our own amusement at this point, why not put together a proposal for the first Lute and Moonhawk novel?

      They say it's better to be busy than not, so we did that—12,000-ish words of sample chapters and an outline of how the book would proceed from there.  The proposal made the rounds—and had no takers.  The common editorial complaint that the story was simply too generic.

      So be it.  Had things gone along as they had been going along, i.e. Lee and Miller write novel; submit; every publishing house on earth rejects—we might have, many years before Kickstarter, written the book anyway (as had become our habit), to amuse ourselves and to keep our covenant with the characters.

      But, things didn't go along as they had been doing.  In late 1997, Meisha Merlin contacted us about reprinting the first three Liaden novels, Agent of Change, Conflict of Honors, and Carpe Diem.  After negotiation, the reprinting project was parlayed into a  seven-book deal, including all the books we'd written but not published to that point.  Between 1998 and 2006, we published eleven novels in eight books with Meisha Merlin—which also passed on the Moonhawk and Lute thread, so as not to dilute the main Liaden narrative.

      Which left us with. . .the first 12,000-ish words of (in our humble opinion as the fond authors) a pretty

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