[Filling your worlds with words] Update 5 - Project we love!
about 1 year ago
– Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 04:18:12 AM
Hi everyone! While I was offline over the weekend, I got a cool email: this is a Project We Love on kickstarter!
On Friday, I announced a flash goal, where if we make it to 200 backers by 9 am tomorrow (about 20 hours from now), I'll include a brand new essay about this book I just read, Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. We're still really far from that goal (currently at 163), so please share this update with your friends (or any of the social media posts where I link it.)
We're ALSO less than 200 € away from unlocking the next two essays in the collection, which are about the Teixcalaan books by Arkady Martine.
If you have friends who aren't writers but who are interested in language or just like to read pop-science analyses of some of their favorite books, send them over! I think non-writers should enjoy this book, too. They might even get a few new titles to add to their TBR!
[Filling your worlds with words] Update 4 - new mini goal
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 03:37:03 AM
Hi everyone!
We're almost halfway through and nearly 225% funded -- thanks to all of you!
I have a MINI GOAL for us today! If we can get to 200 backers by 9 am Tuesday (the midpoint of this campaign), I will include a brand new essay in the collection on Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. I just got it from the library, and the author does some linguistic worldbuilding that I think is really cool!
We're currently at 151, so we only have 49 to go. Let's do it!
Elsewhere on Kickstarter
I have two projects from friends of the blog I'm excited to tell you about today.
From Sloane Leong: DEATH IN THE MOUTH: Original Horror from the Margins is the second installment in our horror anthology series showcasing BIPOC and other ethnically marginalized writers and artists from around the world. It will feature 20 stand-alone prose stories spanning from the mythic past to the far future, cross between real and fictive worlds, and explore unique and unsettling manifestations of horror. Each story will also be accompanied by an original black and white illustration by a unique artist.
This looks great if you're a horror reader! (I'm too much of a wimp.)
Launching Sept. 1, AtThis Arts is publishing a collection of short fiction from Ukrainian writers. They started working on this project shortly after the invasion, and now they've gotten all their ducks in a row, including a grant from the Ukrainian Book Institute. From the publisher:
Embroidered Worlds presents a living snapshot of imaginative fiction in Ukrainian culture today, including stories that span and cross the speculative genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, weird fiction, magic realism, and alternate history.
The majority of stories included in the anthology will be from writers in Ukraine, and for most of them it will be the first time their work will be translated into English. Writers of the Ukrainian diaspora have contributed as well with stories that draw upon their heritage, illustrating the complex and diverse ways we celebrate and re-imagine culture.
These writers and their stories are wildly diverse: There are ghosts and monsters, there are spaceships and ancient gods, there are battles — real and imagined — as well as time-travel adventures, post-apocalyptic settings, magic and folk motifs. Through all this amazing storytelling, we glimpse the ideas and ideals, the history and future, that the Ukrainian people are fighting and dying for.
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This project has been in the works for a while now, and I look forward to getting my hands on it!
