Mythic Delirium Press is doing a Kickstarter to fund the next edition of their amazing genre-blending Clockwork Phoenix anthology series. You can help them to produce it and pay their contributors while reserving your copy and/or buying another Mythic Delirium title.

Perks at the higher levels include signed, limited edition chapbooks by a number ( Read more... )

So, whenever somebody takes up the issue of promoting greater representation of marginalized folks in fiction--particularly racial representation--there's a couple of things that happen ( Read more... )

Self and trad pub'd author Diane Duane (Young Wizards series) has come down with a slight case of identity theft-related brokeness, so she's doing an e-book sale to help staunch the bleeding until her bank squares everything away. Here's her post on the subject.

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Originally posted by deathpixie at Signal Boost: Return of the DDoS
For those wanting to know more about the recent DDoS attacks, yes, it looks like it was the Russian government trying to shut down the dissidents again.

As I said last time, while it's frustrating not to have access, LJ is a lot more than a social network platform. From the article:

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popelizbet has a new poem up at Apex, called "Down CyclesHer previous works concerning a neglected bride, an angel fallen on hard times, and a sea hag (NGL, I was disappointed when this one didn't turn out to be about the Popeye character, but Hans Christian Andersen is okay, too) have already earned her the title "The Gregory Maguire of Genre Poetry" even ( Read more... )

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I'll be honest and say I don't fully understand what this Kickstarter project shadesong has been linking to is about, but it's got 68 hours to go and isn't quite there so I'm going to give it a boost anywayIt's some kind of fabricating machine that cuts stuff into stuff? The creator has a video, but the dude said something about self-replicating machines ( Read more... )

I'm linking to The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities, because there are a lot of people out there who need this book in their lives... there's a free PDF version at that link ( Read more... )