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two (three) good causes

The Indiegogo campaign for Neverland's Library has started up. You may recall me mentioning this before; it's the anthology to which I sold "Centuries of Kings."If you contribute, you're actually...

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Neverland's Library

As I mentioned a while ago, my short story "Centuries of Kings" is going to be in the charity anthology Neverland's Library, whose sales will benefit the literacy charity First Book.Before it can do...

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a belated announcement re: Mythic Delirium

I thought I had posted about this before, but apparently it's on the list of things that have slipped through the cracks of my brain lately.Mythic Delirium -- long known as an excellent magazine of...

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Signal-boosting for various things

SF Signal is giving away two copies of Clockwork Phoenix 4 (which, you may recall, includes my Anglish story "What Still Abides"). Trade paperbacks, and all you have to do is send in an e-mail to...

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A Kickstarter for Chains and Memory

Fourteen and a half years ago, I completed the first draft of what at the time I thought was a stand-alone novel: Lies and Prophecy.Within a year or two, though, I started getting Ideas. Fragments of...

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Okay, so, *that's* going well.

(One thing that isn't going well: my WP installation. I don't know if I'll be able to get it back up before this evening, but for now it's kaput, which means among other things that today's picture...

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Goal! . . . and stretch goals!

(You have no idea how tempted I was to title this “Ni Presentas . . . Goal!” You have no idea mostly because I’m not sure whether anybody reading this blog even knows why the heck I would be tempted to...

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Chains and Musicry

Over the weekend, the Chains and Memory Kickstarter reached its first stretch goal. This means that every backer, current or yet to come, will also be receiving the next best thing to me sharing the...

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Countdown to the final week

Eight days left on the Chains and Memory Kickstarter! We’re just $285 from a short story. Less than that, even, if I count the people who have donated via Paypal — which is a thing I should mention...

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Meet the Rewards: Tarot Readings

I meant to post these a while ago, rather than in the last week of the Kickstarter— but hey, better late than never, right? So over the next few days, I’ll be making a few posts to talk about the...

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Meet the Rewards: Limited Edition Miniscript

Of all the rewards I’m offering on the Chains and Memory Kickstarter, I think this one is the most special to me.Changeling: The Dreaming has a concept it calls “dross”: objects invested with so much...

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Meet the Rewards: Tuckerization and T-shirts

Combining these two into one because there’s less of a story behind them than the other two.Tuckerization is the process of either naming a character after a real person or putting that person into the...

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One day to go . . . .

A bit more than twenty-four hours left on the Chains and Memory Kickstarter. Over the weekend, we went from “might make it to the third stretch goal; might not” to “that’s the third stretch goal...

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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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