OFFER: Custom story and character by last year's WisCon GOH
I'll write a short story dedicated to you and publish it on my web page, for all your friends and fans to enjoy!
Details:
- you get to pick the gender, race, age, and other reasonable identifying characteristics of the main character. They need not be human.
- you can suggest other details about the protagonist
- you get to pick the name of the character too (although if it's too hard to work with, I may ask you to try again)
- you get to pick the genre of the story (SF / fantasy / mainstream / erotica / steampunk / mystery / etc.). I'm not good with horror, westerns, or cyberpunk / super-hard-SF, but will try if that's what you really want.
- the story will be between 2,000 - 10,000 words
- the story will be written and published on my site within a month of the auction ending. (If you have a site / blog / magazine and want to publish it there first, that's probably fine; I reserve the right to then publish it on my site within a few months, and/or resell it elsewhere. We can discuss the details.)
So for example, you could say you wanted an erotic SF story about Jane Smith, an African-Australian beauty with a dark past. And I would do my best to work with that. :-)
Fun!
Starting bid: $25
*****
Here's my bio, in case you aren't familiar with my work:
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins) and nine other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been translated into six languages. Mohanraj founded the Hugo-nominated magazine, Strange Horizons. She was Guest of Honor at WisCon 2010, received a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women for her work in Asian American arts organizing, and won an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Mohanraj has taught at the Clarion SF/F workshop, and is now Clinical Assistant Professor of fiction and literature and Associate Coordinator of Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (www.desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org). Recent SF/F publications include "Talking to Elephants" (Abyss & Apex) and "Jump Space" (Thought Experiments). She lives in a creaky old Victorian in Oak Park, just outside Chicago, with her partner, Kevin, two small children, and a sweet dog. She's currently working on a YA fantasy trilogy, in which youngsters from our world travel to an magical island very similar to ancient Sri Lanka.
Details:
- you get to pick the gender, race, age, and other reasonable identifying characteristics of the main character. They need not be human.
- you can suggest other details about the protagonist
- you get to pick the name of the character too (although if it's too hard to work with, I may ask you to try again)
- you get to pick the genre of the story (SF / fantasy / mainstream / erotica / steampunk / mystery / etc.). I'm not good with horror, westerns, or cyberpunk / super-hard-SF, but will try if that's what you really want.
- the story will be between 2,000 - 10,000 words
- the story will be written and published on my site within a month of the auction ending. (If you have a site / blog / magazine and want to publish it there first, that's probably fine; I reserve the right to then publish it on my site within a few months, and/or resell it elsewhere. We can discuss the details.)
So for example, you could say you wanted an erotic SF story about Jane Smith, an African-Australian beauty with a dark past. And I would do my best to work with that. :-)
Fun!
Starting bid: $25
*****
Here's my bio, in case you aren't familiar with my work:
Mary Anne Mohanraj is author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins) and nine other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been translated into six languages. Mohanraj founded the Hugo-nominated magazine, Strange Horizons. She was Guest of Honor at WisCon 2010, received a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women for her work in Asian American arts organizing, and won an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship. Mohanraj has taught at the Clarion SF/F workshop, and is now Clinical Assistant Professor of fiction and literature and Associate Coordinator of Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She serves as Executive Director of both DesiLit (www.desilit.org) and the Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org). Recent SF/F publications include "Talking to Elephants" (Abyss & Apex) and "Jump Space" (Thought Experiments). She lives in a creaky old Victorian in Oak Park, just outside Chicago, with her partner, Kevin, two small children, and a sweet dog. She's currently working on a YA fantasy trilogy, in which youngsters from our world travel to an magical island very similar to ancient Sri Lanka.