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The Final Countdown
Just over an hour to go.The number currently stands at $4,377*, and given that when I launched this I was moderately terrified I wouldn’t reach the $2000 goal, that’s pretty excellent. It’s been...
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the real work begins
The hard part isn’t running a Kickstarter campaign. The hard part is dealing with all the work after your campaign succeeds. Good news is, I’m being organized. I’ve made a spreadsheet for all the...
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two Kickstarters
These both came to my attention recently, and deserve a signal boost:Daughters of Mercury— this is an art project, creating portraits of trans women “how they want to be represented, either...
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Kick their Starters (or Indie their GoGos)
<looks at subject line> Apparently I’m in a weird mood today. Found out recently that a friend of mine is running an IndieGoGo campaign to fund the post-production for a documentary on the Rocky...
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Sonya Taaffe now has a Patreon
Sonya Taaffe (sovay on LiveJournal) has just set up a Patreon to back her film reviews.If you don’t understand why I’m signal-boosting this, you probably haven’t been reading her reviews. She writes...
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Clockwork Phoenix 5!
Clockwork Phoenix, the anthology series edited by Mike Allen, is back for a fifth round. Kickstarter page is here.I have a particularly fond relationship with this series, because I’m one of two...
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CLOCKWORK PHOENIX 5 Kickstarter is nearly there . . . .
We’re down to the last couple of days, and CP5 is within striking distance of its goal. This is the anthology series that previously brought you “A Mask of Flesh,”“Once a Goddess,”“The Gospel of...
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Explore a Tiny Frontier!
This one is for all the RPG fans out there. Gallant Knight Games are Kickstarting Tiny Frontiers— an authorized SFnal port of the Tiny Dungeons system.Why do I bring this up? Because I’ll be...
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May I call to your attention . . . .
First of all, my friend Mike Underwood’s Genrenauts Kickstarter campaign is already nearly funded, because I’ve been crazy busy in the last week and a half (house-buying drama; turned out okay, thank...
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Three things for the Halloween season
Pseudopod (Escape Artists’ horror-themed short fiction podcast) is running a Kickstarter to raise the funds to pay their narrators. I am not wholly a disinterested party in this, as I’ve narrated for...
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This short story GOES UP TO ELEVEN
I recently finished my first short story of the year, which doesn't yet have a title I am satisfied with, but which is destined for publication in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters II, once the Kickstarter...
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Kaiju, Tuckerization, and tornadoes
Strange Horizons is running a prize drawing as a fundraiser for the magazine. Enter for a chance to be Tuckerized in the book I'm writing right now, the sequel to the Memoirs of Lady Trent! Given the...
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Two Kickstarters
I've mentioned both of these on Twitter, but since that medium is so ephemeral, it's easy to miss things:Both Apex Magazine and Uncanny Magazine are running Kickstarters right now. Both of them are...
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One Kickstarter ends; another begins!
As I post this, there are just twenty-three hours to go on the Kickstarter for Shapers of Worlds II, including a short story from yours truly. It's reached its funding goal, but there are still plenty...
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It's coming: the pattern deck Kickstarter!
Ever since Alyc and I started working on the Rook and Rose books, we've had an ambition: to make the pattern deck which features heavily in the story into a real, illustrated set of cards.At long last,...
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Kickstarter Artist Preview: Avery Liell-Kok
In the lead-up to the launch our pattern deck Kickstarter, I want to give you all a glimpse of the art style to expect -- starting with Avery Liell-Kok's work!I'm cheating a bit here because it lets me...
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Kickstarter Artist Preview: A.C. Esguerra
Time for a peek at the second of our artists! As Avery Liell-Kok will be doing the Face and Mask cards in the upcoming pattern deck, the wonderful A.C. Esguerra will be doing the bulk of the deck...
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Kickstarter Artist Preview #3: H. Emiko Ogasawara
With the Kickstarter launching tomorrow, I bring you the last of our artists!H. Emiko Ogasawara works in a dizzying variety of media: woodblock prints, pop-up books, ceramics, and more. I've known her...
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May we see the Face and not the Mask . . .
The Rook & Rose pattern deck Kickstarter is live!Kickstarter doesn't let you schedule a campaign to launch at a set time -- you have to set it off manually -- so last night I did that right before...
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LABYRINTH'S HEART is in the world!
Nearly six years after Alyc and I said "hey, let's write the Rook and Rose trilogy together," the story is complete!Labyrinth's Heart is out in the world today, in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Alyc...
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Kickstarter progress! + other events!
I've been so busy promoting the pattern deck Kickstarter up one side of the internet and down the other that I've completely forgotten to update about its progress here! We're at the halfway point of...
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This is just to say
You have addedto the fundingthat is inour Kickstarterand whichI wasn't reallyexpectingquite so soonThank youwe're almost to goal$295 awayand so close(originally posted at Swan Tower:...
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55 hours left in the Kickstarter + a new bonus!
I've got two days left at DragonCon and two and a half days left in the pattern deck Kickstarter. Can I survive them both? :-PWe're down to 55 hours and counting, and Alyc has decided to throw one more...
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holy #$&!, we did it
The Rook and Rose pattern deck Kickstarter was a complete success. As in, we unlocked every single stretch goal, and raised nearly $3000 beyond the top one -- a wonderful margin of safety against...
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