Indeed! It’s Out!

Liana and Fava: Friends Indeed!

The big news this week is that Friends Indeed (long known to readers of these Wanderings as SK5) the latest of the Star Kingdom/Stephanie Harrington novels which I write with David Weber, was officially released on March 4th.

Here’s a variation on the original copy.

THE TROUBLE WITH TREECATS

Stephanie Harrington didn’t discover treecats—they were indigenous to the planet Sphinx, a colony of the tiny Star Kingdom of Manticore. But at age eleven she was the first human to bond with one. Now, almost seventeen, she is the species’ greatest champion.

To the rest of the human galaxy, if they are known at all, they are recognized as fierce hunters, tool users, socially organized, fuzzy little creatures, with no known method of communication. But are they sapient? Because if they are, that would have all sorts of repercussions for the families who have settled on Sphinx—the Harringtons not the least.

There will be winners, and there will be losers. And Stephanie is there to make sure the treecats don’t lose out.

But Stephanie, the treecats, and Sphinx itself may be caught up in an even greater conspiracy than the one to help the fighting ‘cats survive, one generations in the making . . .

Weber and I will be doing a chat with Baen Free Radio.  We recently did a special edition of the Honorverse Today podcast, if you’re interested in learning a bit about how we work together.

On other fronts, the short story I mentioned working on is now a rough draft in the area of 14,000 words, which I think makes it a novella.  My job this week is getting it polished, then handing it over to Jim to get his feedback.  Oh, yeah, and figuring out a title.

With much to do, I will wander off to Writer Land.  Catch y’all later!