Setting quiet pages free...: seanan

Setting quiet pages free...

Okay: here's the thing. SJ Tucker is a sweet, generous, talented woman who has freely given of herself and her music for as long as I've known her. Unfortunately, a recent illness (entirely unplanned, as illnesses so often are) has left her with a lot of medical bills hanging over her, and the life of a bard has never been a terribly lucrative one...not in money, anyway.

They're often surprisingly rich in friends.

Ravens in the Library is a limited edition anthology, collecting stories and art dedicated to the health of S.J. Tucker.

It will become available on February 22nd, and will remain available only for as long as it takes for Sooj's medical bills to be covered. For once, I can say with the utmost seriousness that this product will not be sold in stories. It's a real book, it's going to be real and physical in your hands, but it's not going to be real and physical on the shelves of the store down the street. Which makes it sort of extra awesome, really. You can view the original press release in Phil Brucato's journal. Phil is our mastermind and ringleader, and much of what this particular gang of Lost Boys and Wicked Girls does can be blamed on him. Who's along for the ride? We-ell...

Ari Berk
Francesca Lia Block
Phil Brucato
Sam Chupp
Storm Constantine
Charles de Lint
Ben Dobyns
Jaymi Elford
Neil Gaiman
Alexandra Honigsberg
Elizabeth Jordan Leggett
Shira Lipkin
Angel Leigh McCoy
Seanan McGuire
Kris Millering and Storm Wilder
Mia Nutick
S.J. Tucker
Carrie Vaughn
Catherynne M. Valente
Terri Windling
...and others...

Behold. For now we wear the human pants. There's also art! Art is key. And we have art by...

Amy Brown
James A. Owen
Brian Syme
...and others...

This volume is being edited by Phil Brucato and Sandra Buskirk, and to say 'for a limited time only' is to understate things more than a bit. It's great stories and glorious art for a good cause. Ordering information is here, in the press release.

I am so happy to be a part of this.

keristor

January 6 2009, 20:24:07 UTC 8 years ago

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Ordered. That's an impressive list of contributors...

It might be an idea to make the link bold, or bigger font, or otherwise call attention to it, I originally tried the link at the top of the post (which doesn't link to it as far as I can see) and didn't see the actual one because (in my flist) ir was buried in the text.

seanan_mcguire

January 6 2009, 20:41:19 UTC 8 years ago

Thanks for the tweak -- I've added a bold link to the ordering info at the bottom of the page, to make sure folks see it.

January 6 2009, 20:56:28 UTC 8 years ago

Yup, that stands out now. (For some reason links I haven't visited appear in the same font and colour as the rest of the text, making them hard to see. I don't know why, I'm sure that they used to be bright blue and turn red after I'd visted them, now they turn dark purple...)

January 7 2009, 15:49:30 UTC 8 years ago

How weird!

kyburg

January 6 2009, 20:28:41 UTC 8 years ago

I wish I had the $$$. The pitiful little leftovers (and maybe not even that) is all going to adoption-related tasks right now.

That said - there's something happening in Orinda Saturday we'll be up to take in, so I will be around this weekend.

(I may yet recycle up the $$$...gimme time.)

That ALSO said - I saw this and immediately thought of you:

Motorcyclists in Nigeria have been wearing dried pumpkin shells on their heads to dodge new laws forcing them to wear helmets, authorities have said.

Officials in the northern city of Kano said they had stopped several people with "improvised helmets", following this month's introduction of the law.

Road safety officials said calabash-wearers would be prosecuted.

January 7 2009, 15:49:42 UTC 8 years ago

Hee! Cool!

hms42

January 6 2009, 20:30:25 UTC 8 years ago

Thanks for the heads up. (I ordered a copy.)

January 7 2009, 15:49:51 UTC 8 years ago

You're welcome!

deire

January 6 2009, 20:50:28 UTC 8 years ago

Did the winter glitter card ever arrive? :curious: And thank you for the poems off the words!!!

January 7 2009, 15:50:10 UTC 8 years ago

It did! Thank you thank you, and it was lovely.

You're very welcome!

beeker121

January 6 2009, 22:17:25 UTC 8 years ago

I've already seen this in another journal on my flist and have ordered my copy. I'm excited to have the book, and excited to be able to help.

January 7 2009, 15:50:22 UTC 8 years ago

Everybody wins with this sort of thing, really.

mneme

January 6 2009, 22:37:31 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you! I ordered 2 (I'm sure I can find someone to give the second one to, somehow)

January 7 2009, 15:50:30 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, tres cool.

lysystratae

January 6 2009, 23:04:18 UTC 8 years ago

I bought my copy about 10 minutes ago :)

January 7 2009, 15:50:37 UTC 8 years ago

Rock on!

closer2myself

January 7 2009, 00:27:08 UTC 8 years ago

February 22nd is the day that a Dayna was born. This might make a lovely birthday present to myself and help someone cool.

January 7 2009, 15:50:50 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, that is a lovely little coincidence.

idancewithlife

January 7 2009, 01:26:39 UTC 8 years ago

Ordered! I was wondering how to contribute, and referenced you and Vixy when I posted a comment there. Thanks for the info and for the writing.

January 7 2009, 15:51:02 UTC 8 years ago

You're welcome, on both counts. <3

biguglymandoll

January 7 2009, 19:36:54 UTC 8 years ago

Yay! Ordered mine - if you hadn't posted this I would have missed this. Thank you for being you. Gold star goes to Seanan this time!

January 8 2009, 15:31:37 UTC 8 years ago

Hooray for gold stars!

I'm just insanely chuffed to be able to help Sooj like this -- and to be one of the names on that list, because dude.

amanda_nye

January 8 2009, 07:39:21 UTC 8 years ago

Qwesome! I just went and bought one. How could I pass up 4 of my favorite authors? I know, given the circle, that it will be amazing, and a worthy cause.

January 8 2009, 15:31:50 UTC 8 years ago

...okay, which four? Curious cat is curious.

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