Another heads up about the Worldbuilders fundraiser, win critiques! This might make a good gift idea for a writer you know ( Read more... )

A program for book discussion for prisoners could use some donations, if you happen to have some extra cash.

mamculuna writes ( Read more... )

It's that time of the year again. Down in the craft area is the Fox Banner that I embroidered, up for auction. Take a look at the other goodies if that doesn't float your boat. It all goes to the cause!

The card game for horrible people, or for people who have horrible senses of humor: the fundraiser is here (I must confess I contributed to a few of the more ridiculous of those cards)

Writing about Writing . . . Me and the creeping dust motes. (Which could also stand for my rate of improvement!).

Life . . .

A friend of ours needs help with gender affirmation surgery. Simon, being disabled, lives on a fixed income, with no family fallback. When he's well, he volunteers with rescue animals. We'd be grateful for any help, including just spreading the word.

The indie challenge . . .

A writer friend, Leigh Kimmel, has a free serial going, ( Read more... )

Epic fantasy has been around for a very long time, and so have critical nose-liftings. The amusing part of this one is, it was written to edify a nine-year-old boy, in the 1740s.

rachelmanija and I wrote a short riff on diversity in escapism. This is in support of the Kaleidoscope fundraiser.This is such a broad subject with so many possible spinoff discussions, like the vexing question of gender inequality not only in male writers effortlessly sailing the seas of media applause while females either are ignored or pop up when someone ( Read more... )

I got my wires crossed, and I thought the Kaleidoscope fundraiser was starting in another month, but in fact it has 18 days to go ( Read more... )

Many goodies on offer! Including my donation, two rare chapbooks from 1979--by Pau Edwin Zimmer--and 1984, a signed and numbered Jane Yolen story printed by Charles de Lint's Triskell Press, with an intro from John Crowley.

As one of those personal ironies, the book I am reading this morning is Nobody Passes, edited by Mattilda, AKA Matt ( Read more... )