Sharing a good thing
Do you like to read prose that you can taste* while your eyes devour it? Do something nice for yourself (and/or someone else) and sign up for Catherynne M. Valente's Omikuji Project.
The Omikuji Project is an experiment in cyberfunded art. It is an old-fashioned approach to new-founded literature, the shortest path from author to reader. It is a secret and marvelous communication, a unique way for you to read stories unavailable in any other venue, in any other way. It is a network of tales, a community. It is whispering in the dark; it is a fireside confession.
On the fifteenth of the month, subscribers will receive either a PDF or a mailed letter containing one short story or poem not less than two-thousand words or 150 lines, and any other literary flotsam I can find to send you. These stories are not published elsewhere without permission of the community, except in the collected anthologies, which occur every two years.
The mailing is the heart of the project: printed on high quality paper, autographed, and sealed with a scarlet wax stamp, they are stunning collectible artifacts.
I will continue this project so long as a minimum number of subscribers are interested (approximately 100).
It's a luxury, but it's one that I'm happy to indulge in.
*Then again, that might be a special treat that my brain provides.
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The Omikuji Project is an experiment in cyberfunded art. It is an old-fashioned approach to new-founded literature, the shortest path from author to reader. It is a secret and marvelous communication, a unique way for you to read stories unavailable in any other venue, in any other way. It is a network of tales, a community. It is whispering in the dark; it is a fireside confession.
On the fifteenth of the month, subscribers will receive either a PDF or a mailed letter containing one short story or poem not less than two-thousand words or 150 lines, and any other literary flotsam I can find to send you. These stories are not published elsewhere without permission of the community, except in the collected anthologies, which occur every two years.
The mailing is the heart of the project: printed on high quality paper, autographed, and sealed with a scarlet wax stamp, they are stunning collectible artifacts.
I will continue this project so long as a minimum number of subscribers are interested (approximately 100).
It's a luxury, but it's one that I'm happy to indulge in.
*Then again, that might be a special treat that my brain provides.
This entry was originally posted at http://deakat.dreamwidth.org/45817.html, where there are now
comments. Feel free to comment in either location.