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Congrats to Stacy, winner of the second half of our Double Kickass Heroines contest over on my BFF Gini Koch's blog! You've won a copy of my Skein of Shadows and Gini's The Night Beat! Woohoo! Contact Gini with your deets and I'll get your ebook out to you ASAMP (As Soon As Marcily Possible, heh).
Also, here is the official announcement from Wizards of the Coast RE: international availability of their ebooks. In a nutshell, distribution issues have been resolved and ebooks should be available outside the US soon! Woot! (But be advised that Amazon UK seems incapable of spelling my first name right, so search by title and my last name, and you should be good to go.)
Everything Else
Okay, you all know pediatric cancer is something I care about. (Well, I don't care about cancer, of course - that can piss off and die a pointless and unremembered death, and good riddance. I care about the kids who are fighting cancer, and their families, and what we can do to help them.)
Michael Reynolds cares, too - because, like me, pediatric cancer awareness was thrust upon him when his son was first diagnosed with it. And for his son Logan, who is battling a rare brain cancer, and all the other sick kids out there, Michael is trying to Kickstarter a fun new series of books about kids like them - Max Spencer, Space Inventor. He's about halfway there with a little over two weeks left to go. I've already pledged my support and have plugged the project on both Twitter and FB, and I'll continue to do so until it (hopefully) gets funded. This is an important project, and it's one he wants to be able to share with his son. Michael hasn't said so, but as a cancer parent, I know that this isn't the sort of project that can wait for a traditional publisher, because that process takes a long time, and there are a lot of sick kids out there who simply don't have it to spare. Kids who would really benefit from a book that shows that no illness, no matter how severe, can take away their ability to dream, and dream big. So please consider throwing a few bucks at this one. I'd be much obliged.
(And, no, I don't know Michael other than through support of his project. But I know his pain. And if you've followed my blog for any length of time, you do, too.)
Congrats to Stacy, winner of the second half of our Double Kickass Heroines contest over on my BFF Gini Koch's blog! You've won a copy of my Skein of Shadows and Gini's The Night Beat! Woohoo! Contact Gini with your deets and I'll get your ebook out to you ASAMP (As Soon As Marcily Possible, heh).
Also, here is the official announcement from Wizards of the Coast RE: international availability of their ebooks. In a nutshell, distribution issues have been resolved and ebooks should be available outside the US soon! Woot! (But be advised that Amazon UK seems incapable of spelling my first name right, so search by title and my last name, and you should be good to go.)
Everything Else
Okay, you all know pediatric cancer is something I care about. (Well, I don't care about cancer, of course - that can piss off and die a pointless and unremembered death, and good riddance. I care about the kids who are fighting cancer, and their families, and what we can do to help them.)
Michael Reynolds cares, too - because, like me, pediatric cancer awareness was thrust upon him when his son was first diagnosed with it. And for his son Logan, who is battling a rare brain cancer, and all the other sick kids out there, Michael is trying to Kickstarter a fun new series of books about kids like them - Max Spencer, Space Inventor. He's about halfway there with a little over two weeks left to go. I've already pledged my support and have plugged the project on both Twitter and FB, and I'll continue to do so until it (hopefully) gets funded. This is an important project, and it's one he wants to be able to share with his son. Michael hasn't said so, but as a cancer parent, I know that this isn't the sort of project that can wait for a traditional publisher, because that process takes a long time, and there are a lot of sick kids out there who simply don't have it to spare. Kids who would really benefit from a book that shows that no illness, no matter how severe, can take away their ability to dream, and dream big. So please consider throwing a few bucks at this one. I'd be much obliged.
(And, no, I don't know Michael other than through support of his project. But I know his pain. And if you've followed my blog for any length of time, you do, too.)
