The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold [Amazon] is coming out this week hopefully. (My order’s already in with Amazon)
The good news is that there are now some sample chapters up.
Bujold of course is better known for the Vorkosigan series of booksand the Chalion series.
I read today that Jim Baen of Baen books fame has passed away.
I think I have more Baen SF books on my shelf than any other single publisher and to a great extent Baen Books the publisher was always strongly connected to Jim Baen the man. Baen have published some of my all time favourite books (including Bujold and Weber) and their approach to electronic publishing is by far the most rational, sensible and intelligent of any publisher.
Although I never met him online or off; I feel, somehow, that reading the books that his company published changed the way that I think, and to a certain extent who I am.
My sympathies are with his family and friends and my hope is that the spirit he brought to Baen Books will continue long into the future.