Pinbeam Books: 43 books

"The Wine of Memory" brings Lute and his new apprentice, Moonhawk, to one of Lute's favorite places, only to discover that a tragedy has altered everything. Lute can get into a locked the house, but can he put a ghost to rest? In "Certain Symmetry," Pat Rin yos'Phelium receives...

Before Miri Robertson met Val Con yos'Phelium she was an acclaimed mercenary soldier. Before she was an acclaimed mercenary soldier with the Gyrfalks, she was "Redhead," a young recruit in Lizardi's Lunatics. On Klamath it was Miri's job to carry Lizardi's Lunatics' special meteorological...

"Pilot of Korval" finds Er Thom yos'Galan and Daav yos'Phelium, raised together as brothers, separated and beginning to learn their adult roles of trader and scout. In "Breath's Duty," a grown-up Daav must undertake a painful duty of friendship -- find his best friend's...

Kareen yos'Phelium Clan Korval has always done everything that was proper, rising by study and by example to become the foremost scholar of the Liaden Code of Proper Conduct on Liad -- and perhaps in the galaxy. Indeed, it seems that the only people she cannot influence to seemly action are...

Moonhawk is a priestess of the Goddess, traveling on quest. Lute is an itinerant magician, specializing in sleight-of-hand and ventriloquism. The two of them meet on the road, and continue on together, down the road, and across lifetimes. "Where the Goddess Sends," is the story of...

In "A Matter of Dreams" the oft-disappointed crew of an itinerant spaceship find that magic and dreams can come face to face with the reality of money and power -- and that power abhors an honest confrontation. Also here is "Phoenix," which gives an intimate glance at the...

For those who wish to see how a short story goes from outline to short story, this echapbook presents the outline for, and the completed short Liaden story, "The Space at Tinsori Light," with an explanatory foreword by Sharon Lee.

Baltimore-born Jen Pierce is starting to settle into her new job as a reporter at the Wimsy Voice, and her new life in small-town Wimsy, Maine. The town's busy enough to keep a reporter hopping, though violence is usually on the level of one neighbor punching another in the nose after they've both...

Wimsy can kill you... Ask Jen Pierce, late of Baltimore, and now the proud owner of an old farmhouse in the country, a cat named Jasper, and an at-risk job at the local newspaper. Not long ago, she survived a run-in with a murderer from away. Now there are several new deaths in town, and she's the reporter on the spot.

When space pilots dance, they move... . . .readers asked the questions: What happens when Korval moves to Surebleak? What happens when Pat Rin and Val Con get together? What happens when Aunt Kareen tries to bring the Code to the frontier? Answers to some of these perplexing questions...

Three stories of power, innocence, and magic. Kinzel the Foolish:  Meet Kinzel, 'prentice to Mad Siljan the herb lady.  Not quite the village fool.  Not quite.  And does it take a fool, or a wise child, to bargain with a unicorn? Kinzel the Innocent: Against his master's -- and his...

Meanwhile, on another side of the Universe. . . Meet Gem ser'Edreth, a wizard with electronics -- and a freelance thief. Deliberately solitary, unencumbered by family or friends, he immerses himself in his profession, rising to a pinnacle of skill so exalted that the planetary crime boss seeks...

Pirates, politics, police, and plots! Meet William Drew Faro the 4th -- a human from Khareton's TriGrace Academy -- and Trikura Dai -- a rock-chewing, space-faring Chenri who is definitely not of this world! Now imagine a star-spanning civilization where information is bought, sold,...

Steve Miller is rapidly approaching one of those milestones many writers never reach -- one million words in print.  He's written science fiction, been a reporter, edited newspapers, and written articles for newspapers. As a drama critic Steve's covered opening night plays and as a blues and rock...