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  As SRM Publisher grew, Michael Capobianco, then President of SFWA -Science Fiction Writers of America—asked Sharon to become the organization’s first Executive Director, a full time position she held for more than three years. With contracts for Liaden Universe® novels set through 2005, Sharon gave up that job last year, running for and winning the SFWA Vice Presidency, which she assumed July 1st of 2001.

  Ace Books will be reprinting Lee & Millers 7 exisitng Liaden Universe® novels starting in 2002, while Embiid will publishing a non-Liaden Lee& Miller SF novel in August of 2002.

  As fulltime writers Sharon and Steve are frequently free to attend science fiction conventions and signings around the US and Canada. In the last few years they’ve been guests or participants at libraries, conventions and science fictional events in Schenectady, Chicago, San Jose, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Roanoke, Boston, Burlington, Bangor, and Fredericton (New Brunswick) with upcoming travels to Kansas City, San Jose, Baltimore, and Toronto.