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Signal boosting and odds and ends
Feb. 19th, 2015 03:44 pmFirst the signal boosts:
Only $50 or so and 5 hours left to fund the Secular Women Work Conference in Minneapolis. This looks like it will be interesting regardless of where you are on the skeptic continuum and worth attending so let's make it happen.
Author/Editor Nisi Shawl needs to raise funds to go care for her mom. The short version of the story is that her mother was recovering from her illness in November and things were looking promising, but she slipped and fell in rehab and fractured some vertebrae. Please donate if you can, and boost. Also, buy Nisi's books so she's got some long term security.
I got to go to dinner two nights running this week, with fascinating women (be jealous, be super jealous) and got to learn about some interesting new projects, Here's a sample:
Kelly Sue DeConnick's Pretty Deadly, which looks really cool:
And I'm dying to read this (not discussed at dinner, but look potentially awesome):
Suffrajitsu! Based very loosely on the actual English suffragists who learned jujitsu to protect the Pankhursts back in the day. I want to write steampunk about them so very badly, after I finish a few other projects.
And finally, from an interesting concert I went to last weekend, Olivia Chaney is a dead ringer for Sandy Denny, at least on some arrangements. I look forward to hearing more of her work.
Otherwise, writing and working and hoping to have more updates soon.
Only $50 or so and 5 hours left to fund the Secular Women Work Conference in Minneapolis. This looks like it will be interesting regardless of where you are on the skeptic continuum and worth attending so let's make it happen.
Author/Editor Nisi Shawl needs to raise funds to go care for her mom. The short version of the story is that her mother was recovering from her illness in November and things were looking promising, but she slipped and fell in rehab and fractured some vertebrae. Please donate if you can, and boost. Also, buy Nisi's books so she's got some long term security.
I got to go to dinner two nights running this week, with fascinating women (be jealous, be super jealous) and got to learn about some interesting new projects, Here's a sample:
Kelly Sue DeConnick's Pretty Deadly, which looks really cool:
And I'm dying to read this (not discussed at dinner, but look potentially awesome):
Suffrajitsu! Based very loosely on the actual English suffragists who learned jujitsu to protect the Pankhursts back in the day. I want to write steampunk about them so very badly, after I finish a few other projects.
And finally, from an interesting concert I went to last weekend, Olivia Chaney is a dead ringer for Sandy Denny, at least on some arrangements. I look forward to hearing more of her work.
Otherwise, writing and working and hoping to have more updates soon.