Monday Update 1-16-12
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ysabetwordsmithThese are some posts from the later part of last week, in case you missed them:
Precedents in Trespassing
Library Patrons Want Ebooks
Embarras Valley Farm & CSA (with discussion of pros & cons in community-supported agriculture)
Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "Q"
Wind Resistant Trees
The Mobility Vehicle One
Hard Things
Read "Hellwatch"
Crowdfunding:
The mid-month bonus fishbowl will take place this Tuesday, focused on the series Fiorenza the Wisewoman. Think Italian history, rural life, herbalism, folk magic, fairy tales, and a woman who doesn't take flack from anyone. You can read up on the series by visiting the Serial Poetry page. Also, one of the Crowdfunding Creative Jam poems this weekend belongs to that series, "Pearls and Posies."
This weekend featured at least four different crowdfunding activities: Crowdfunding Creative Jam, Torn World Muse Fusion, Giraffe Call by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
aldersprig, and Garden of Prose by clare_dragonfly. Woohoo! You can find links to the events, a list of what I wrote with sponsorship prices, and links to stuff created from my prompts in "Fund ALL the Crowds!" Already visible is my CCJ freebie poem, "Why Autistics Make Good Friends." The Torn World freebie is a nonfiction article about another critter, the grapejelly, which will go to the Canon Board and eventually get posted for public viewing. Imagine a very tiny fruit-flavored sea monster.
My partner Doug has launched a crowdfunded astrology project, My Starz! over on Dreamwidth. Early posts contain essays talking about what astrology is and how it works.
New Crowdfunding Project: My Starz! Astrology
My Starz! Update
Read About the Rising Sign
You can now read my Torn World story "On the Rocks" in the crowdfunded magazine The Lorelei Signal.
Plunge in Progress talks about the genre webzine of queer women literature that I'll be editing. The website is up with some background information on the project, and the Kickstarter fundraiser has been submitted; I'll let you know when the fundraiser goes active.
Lorelei Has a Dream covers the Kickstarter project bymeeksp to do a hardcopy edition of her illustrated book.
The Bookstore That's Bigger on the Inside is a Kickstarter project bym_p_cryan to support her indie bookstore.
Giraffe Call Monday Update is a summary of progress fromaldersprig about the fiction project, which is still open (probably through Friday evening) and making brisk headway through perk thresholds.
Poetry in Microfunding:
"The Inescapable Agony of Being" is a $20 poem about aliens masquerading as human. It only needs $2 to be fully funded! "The Morose Mascot" follows Horace the porcupine as he flees his horrible mistress. It needs $53 to complete.
Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2012 Rose & Bay Awards which honors crowdfunding excellence in the categories of Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron. Please visit the nomination posts to browse projects and nominate your own favorites. Full details for this award are on its landing page, and the nomination pages have category details.
Nominations are also open for the Rhysling Award recognizing exceptional speculative poetry. The SFPA has posted some Rhysling eligible poems online and mine are also available on my website. If you're a SFPA member, please nominate your favorite poems for this award. Also, this award now accepts crowdfunded and self-published poems! So all of my 2011 fishbowl poems are eligible -- look under the "poem" tag to find them.
The weather turned cold here, and we got enough snow to cover the ground and form low drifts. The birds mobbed the feeders as a result. The funniest example was a lady cardinal trying valiantly to plunder the thistle sock. Cardinals are not clinging birds, and I don't think she ever got a single seed there. I need to restock one of my suet cages when we go to the grocery store -- the sparrows emptied it. Most of the snow has melted by now, as the weather warmed up again.
Precedents in Trespassing
Library Patrons Want Ebooks
Embarras Valley Farm & CSA (with discussion of pros & cons in community-supported agriculture)
Torn Tongue: Verbs Beginning with "Q"
Wind Resistant Trees
The Mobility Vehicle One
Hard Things
Read "Hellwatch"
Crowdfunding:
The mid-month bonus fishbowl will take place this Tuesday, focused on the series Fiorenza the Wisewoman. Think Italian history, rural life, herbalism, folk magic, fairy tales, and a woman who doesn't take flack from anyone. You can read up on the series by visiting the Serial Poetry page. Also, one of the Crowdfunding Creative Jam poems this weekend belongs to that series, "Pearls and Posies."
This weekend featured at least four different crowdfunding activities: Crowdfunding Creative Jam, Torn World Muse Fusion, Giraffe Call by
aldersprig, and Garden of Prose by clare_dragonfly. Woohoo! You can find links to the events, a list of what I wrote with sponsorship prices, and links to stuff created from my prompts in "Fund ALL the Crowds!" Already visible is my CCJ freebie poem, "Why Autistics Make Good Friends." The Torn World freebie is a nonfiction article about another critter, the grapejelly, which will go to the Canon Board and eventually get posted for public viewing. Imagine a very tiny fruit-flavored sea monster.My partner Doug has launched a crowdfunded astrology project, My Starz! over on Dreamwidth. Early posts contain essays talking about what astrology is and how it works.
New Crowdfunding Project: My Starz! Astrology
My Starz! Update
Read About the Rising Sign
You can now read my Torn World story "On the Rocks" in the crowdfunded magazine The Lorelei Signal.
Plunge in Progress talks about the genre webzine of queer women literature that I'll be editing. The website is up with some background information on the project, and the Kickstarter fundraiser has been submitted; I'll let you know when the fundraiser goes active.
Lorelei Has a Dream covers the Kickstarter project by
meeksp to do a hardcopy edition of her illustrated book.The Bookstore That's Bigger on the Inside is a Kickstarter project by
m_p_cryan to support her indie bookstore.Giraffe Call Monday Update is a summary of progress from
aldersprig about the fiction project, which is still open (probably through Friday evening) and making brisk headway through perk thresholds.Poetry in Microfunding:
"The Inescapable Agony of Being" is a $20 poem about aliens masquerading as human. It only needs $2 to be fully funded! "The Morose Mascot" follows Horace the porcupine as he flees his horrible mistress. It needs $53 to complete.
Awards
Nominations are now open for the 2012 Rose & Bay Awards which honors crowdfunding excellence in the categories of Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron. Please visit the nomination posts to browse projects and nominate your own favorites. Full details for this award are on its landing page, and the nomination pages have category details.
Nominations are also open for the Rhysling Award recognizing exceptional speculative poetry. The SFPA has posted some Rhysling eligible poems online and mine are also available on my website. If you're a SFPA member, please nominate your favorite poems for this award. Also, this award now accepts crowdfunded and self-published poems! So all of my 2011 fishbowl poems are eligible -- look under the "poem" tag to find them.
The weather turned cold here, and we got enough snow to cover the ground and form low drifts. The birds mobbed the feeders as a result. The funniest example was a lady cardinal trying valiantly to plunder the thistle sock. Cardinals are not clinging birds, and I don't think she ever got a single seed there. I need to restock one of my suet cages when we go to the grocery store -- the sparrows emptied it. Most of the snow has melted by now, as the weather warmed up again.
