Poetry sale and Write-a-Thon wrap up
Great news! Apex will be publishing my poem Casanova Clay, probably in late 2013. Casanova Clay started as a piece of twitter fiction (lovingly rejected because the story needed to be bigger) and then slowly grew over the years. He got me back into writing poetry. I love Casanova and its nice to know others like him too.
Clarion Write-a-Thon wrap up! Yes it has been some time. Through the power of giving $6.50 (on top of what I donated to other writers) I just managed to meet my target of $400. I don’t know if that’s cheating or not, but I’m so happy to hit that $400 target. That target seemed crazy ambitious, but together we did it. I really appreciate everyone’s support, financial, emotional, by double dog daring me or being amazing and inspiring me to increase my efforts.
A big shoutout of love to my sponsors
- Alison Rose
- Dennis Argall
- Robert Crais
- Manny Frishberg
- Jeffrey Petersen
- Nancy Etchemendy
- Shauna Roberts
- Jim Shea
- Kelly Lagor
- Nina Kiriki Hoffman
- Nancy Etchemendy
- Keyan Bowes
- Debbie Notkin
- Ferrett Steinmetz
- Lesley Smith
- Leslie What (Glasser)
- Keffy Kehrli
- Matt London
- Julie Andrews
- Kari Maaren
- Eileen Gunn
- Miranda Wolf
- And my anonymous donors (oh anony ones, please let me know if you want me to list your names :)
For you I wrote words, made comics, finished a love song and worked on the compost that tasty creative vegetables come from.
There is work still to be done. I challenged folks and accepted mad challenges at the last minute. By the next write a thon I must write a love song to a baked good aaaaand….
In the last few days of the write-a-thon I said that for every new dollar I raised I would draw a Things Without Arms and Without Legs comic. And that’s why I need to draw 111 Things Without Arms and Without Legs comics. I created 19 Things comics during the write-a-thon, so there will be at least 130 Things Without Arms and Without Legs comics in the world.
$111 dollars? $1 a comic? Was I mad? Quite probably, yes. Thank you for keeping the pressure on, it’s a good kind of squeezing.
We are now up to Things comic number 34, hooray! Comic 34 feels more reassuring than 15 of 111!