Worldcon Fundraiser: Send the #WorldSFTour to London!
Folks on Twitter will have seen this already. Over at The Skiffy and Fanty Show blog, I’m hosting a fundraiser to help bring the World SF Tour to Worldcon in London. At last year’s Worldcon, we interviewed quite a bunch of folks and released those episodes throughout 2013. This year, we want to do the same thing, because London will contain a far more international audience, and I’d like to expand the reach of the tour as much as possible! The fundraiser just started today. You can support that fundraiser on this GoFundMe page. As of this moment, we’re nearly to the first milestone, which will mean a perk opens up. And there are lots of other nifty S&F-related perks to become available as the donations rack up. Other perks might be announced later. If you’re at all interested in World SF and want to see more content on S&F related to that theme, please support the fundraiser!
Link of the Week: @chuckwendig on Self-Publishing (or, Heh, Yeah)
The link…in which Chuck Wendig says things I’ve been saying for a long long time about self-publishing, but with a lot more funny terms and a billion more readers. As a sorta-reviewer, I’ve had to shut out almost all self-publishers and indie authors for precisely the reasons Wendig cites in his post. And it’s frustrating, because I know there are some lovely authors in that sea, but you can’t honestly expect me to give up my time and energy reading mountains of legitimately crap books just to find the gems. A while back, I got crapped on for suggesting this. Now, I’m sure all the poop goodness is hanging out in Mr. Wendig’s backyard. Oh, and I seriously mean there are good SPed books out there. I’ve read some of them. I’ve even bought some in recent memory. I just don’t buy most of the SPed books out there for the same reason I don’t subscribe to every blog I come across. Anywhoodles.