Spreading the word
Jun. 12th, 2009 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSpreading the word for two friends in need (comments disabled because this post exists to point you to their posts):
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yuki_onna, as most of you know, is a damned fine author. She and her husband have also encountered some financial hardships. As someone who has spent the last six months working with a Damoclesian sword hanging over his head at work, I know damned well that we're exactly one step away from being in the same boat, and it's a situation I shudder to think about.
Ass00j notes, this isn't failure, it's a temporary setback. But to offset that, Cat is writing her first YA novel, the wonderful novel-within-the-novel from Palimpsest.
(For those who never stumbled across it during the run-up to Palimpsest, here's the wonderful faux-Amazon listing for the book.)
As Cat explains in her post, the novel will be free, and available every Monday. But if folks want to pay for what they read -- whatever price seems fair --they can do so. Cat also lists other ways you can support her, via e-books, the Omikuji project, etc. I'm sure that buying her published books has nice long-term impact (leading eventually to royalties and, perhaps more importantly, bumping sales enough to increase the chances of future book sales), and it's something I recommend doing anyway, but I suspect the short-term is the more pressing issue here.
2.coffeeinhell, who's both a nifty movie critic and a maker of chocolate, has also encountered money issues. As a way to help her out, you can buy some of her incredible gourmet chocolates and marshmallows. And she's now introduced a S'mores Kit! Warning: her post contains pictures and links to pages with more pictures, and it might be too early in the morning for food porn where you live. For example, it's not even 9:30, and I'm currently craving chocolate.
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yuki_onna, as most of you know, is a damned fine author. She and her husband have also encountered some financial hardships. As someone who has spent the last six months working with a Damoclesian sword hanging over his head at work, I know damned well that we're exactly one step away from being in the same boat, and it's a situation I shudder to think about.As
s00j notes, this isn't failure, it's a temporary setback. But to offset that, Cat is writing her first YA novel, the wonderful novel-within-the-novel from Palimpsest. (For those who never stumbled across it during the run-up to Palimpsest, here's the wonderful faux-Amazon listing for the book.)
As Cat explains in her post, the novel will be free, and available every Monday. But if folks want to pay for what they read -- whatever price seems fair --they can do so. Cat also lists other ways you can support her, via e-books, the Omikuji project, etc. I'm sure that buying her published books has nice long-term impact (leading eventually to royalties and, perhaps more importantly, bumping sales enough to increase the chances of future book sales), and it's something I recommend doing anyway, but I suspect the short-term is the more pressing issue here.
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coffeeinhell, who's both a nifty movie critic and a maker of chocolate, has also encountered money issues. As a way to help her out, you can buy some of her incredible gourmet chocolates and marshmallows. And she's now introduced a S'mores Kit! Warning: her post contains pictures and links to pages with more pictures, and it might be too early in the morning for food porn where you live. For example, it's not even 9:30, and I'm currently craving chocolate.