3 Ways you Can Help: Support some Words this Summer

I don’t spend much time on this blog asking for help — I usually manage on my own pretty well, and I hate to shill too much. But this summer, I’m involved in three awesome projects that I think deserve your support. If you love great stories, and want to support some great writers, please keep reading. We’re down to the wire on two of these efforts, and there’s only about three weeks left to go on the third. If you can, please consider supporting:

Launchpad 2013 – Launchpad is a week long astronomy workshop held at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, designed for science fiction writers and other creatives as a crash course in astronomy and space sciences. Taught by actual space scientists (some of them also spec-fic writers), it’s meant to give writers a solid foundation in real-world science so that they, in turn, can write the stories that inspire the next generation. Launchpad has a long history of teaching both established and new authors and usually, the workshop is fully funded by grants from NASA and the U.S. Government. This is the first year that funding has been cut back, and some of the cost passed on to the attendees. If you’d like to help reduce those costs, please consider making a donation! There are prizes for all levels of backing and every bit helps. The workshop starts this Sunday — and there’s only 36 hours left to show your support!

What Fates Impose – This anthology of fortune telling stories from Alliteration Ink, edited by Nayad A. Monroe, and featuring some awesome writers, is in the final days of its Kickstarter. Six days left, and almost 80% funded, but we still have a ways to go. There are some fabulous rewards including original art, your fortune told, eBooks, and a special selection of themed cocktails (by yours truly). Click here to back it. 

Clarion West Write-a-Thon – The venerable 6-week intensive writers workshop is underway. This is Clarion West’s 30th year of training up and coming writers and making their dreams come true. I’m a graduate of CW, and I can truly say it made me a better writer, and it changed my life. During the Clarion West Write-a-Thon, you can sponsor a writer and help raise money for Clarion West so that the workshop can continue for it’s 31st year and beyond. You can sponsor me or another writer, but I hope you’ll consider supporting Clarion West regardless.

Whether you choose to back any of these projects or not, I want to say a sincere “thank you” to those of you who have read my stories, my blog posts at Inkpunks or Functional Nerds, or encouraged me along the way! Your support means a lot to me.

Thank you!