Updates on a variety of crowdfunded things...

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Commission Control has been fully funded! There is a progress bar for the next layer of improvement to the site, which is adding payment tracking and escrow services.

There is no deadline for when we make our next hurdle with Commission Control - when it happens, it happens. But there is a decided deadline for the next fundraising hurdle of EMG-Zine This 'zine has been published for five years now, and this may be its last. I have brushed off the subscription model, made a number of major changes at the webpage (including a new page to order copies of the anthologies) to get our fundraiser started. We're at 27% now, and every anthology purchase and subscription counts towards our goal!

Our EMG-Zine theme for March is 'gryphons', and the deadline to submit material is Feb 1: http://emg-zine.com/guidelines.php

Sketch Fest is on for this Friday-Saturday, noon to noon Alaska time! Join us for this inspiring 24 hour creative sketch jam, with any mediums - or just bring up prompts to work from. Sketch Fest #9 had 57 participating artists and 239 sketches. Can we top that??

Torn World is seeking an advertising intern! We've got new art and stories going up at the site, as always, and are always welcome to new creative contributors if you've got a hankering to be a part of a complex, detailed shared world experience.

Questions? Wrenches? Feel free to contact me!

Update: 2011 Rose & Bay Awards

[ysabetwordsmith]

 The Rose & Bay Awards honor excellence in cyberfunded creativity. If you're new to this project, please visit the 2011 landing page to learn more.

These are our handlers and categories.  Nominations are currently open.  The nomination period runs through the end of January, so you have just over a week left.

Art: itew Nominate art!
Fiction: eseme Nominate fiction!
Poetry: xjenavivex Nominate poetry!
Webcomic: ysabetwordsmith Nominate webcomics!
Other Project: xjenavivex Nominate others!
Patron: xjenavivex Nominate patrons!

So far we have this many nominations:
Art -- 6
Fiction -- 12
Poetry -- 4
Webcomics -- 8
Other Project -- 8
Patron -- 9

We still need nominations for all categories, though we got several new nominations over the past week.  Poetry and Art are still on the low side.  Come on, folks, there are hundreds  of Webcomic and Fiction projects out there.  Creators, make sure your audience members know about your eligibility.  You should also be nominating your patrons in the Patron category ... *poke with sharp stick* remember they put the FUND in crowdfunding.  

If you have not yet posted about the Rose and Bay Awards, please help us boost the signal.  Thanks to all the people who have been helping with signal boosts!  I think that is raising our participation.  Keep up the good work.

Update: 2011 Rose & Bay Awards

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

The Rose & Bay Awards honor excellence in cyberfunded creativity. If you're new to this project, please visit the 2011 landing page to learn more.

These are our handlers and categories.  Nominations are currently open.  The nomination period runs through the end of January, so you have just over a week left.

Art: itew Nominate art!
Fiction: eseme Nominate fiction!
Poetry: xjenavivex Nominate poetry!
Webcomic: ysabetwordsmith Nominate webcomics!
Other Project: xjenavivex Nominate others!
Patron: xjenavivex Nominate patrons!

So far we have this many nominations:
Art -- 6
Fiction -- 12
Poetry -- 4
Webcomics -- 8
Other Project -- 8
Patron -- 9

We still need nominations for all categories, though we got several new nominations over the past week.  Poetry and Art are still on the low side.  Come on, folks, there are hundreds  of Webcomic and Fiction projects out there.  Creators, make sure your audience members know about your eligibility.  You should also be nominating your patrons in the Patron category ... *poke with sharp stick* remember they put the FUND in crowdfunding.  

If you have not yet posted about the Rose and Bay Awards, please help us boost the signal.  Thanks to all the people who have been helping with signal boosts!  I think that is raising our participation.  Keep up the good work.

Commission Control

[ysabetwordsmith]

 ellenmillion has recently announced that Commission Control is fully funded for its base site.  Now open is crowdfunding for the payment tracking & escrow services option.  Future possibilities include services for writing as well as artwork, so I really hope that people respond favorably to this project.  Meanwhile if you are an artist or looking to hire one, check it out.

Right Angles to Fairyland

[ysabetwordsmith]

 cemurphy has announced one of her crowdfunding projects for this year, Right Angles to Fairyland.  This is a young adult fantasy novel in need of revision and publication.  Sample chapters are visible through the original post.

CE Murphy 2011 Crowdfunding Projects

[cemurphy.livejournal.com]

So I've got two crowdfunding projects going on in 2011. I'll post about the second one in February when I have a teaser available for it, but here are the details on the first one:

There is a book I've been trying to write since I was twelve years old. It's called RIGHT ANGLES TO FAIRYLAND, and it's a traditional YA fantasy novel: Five children discover a fairy circle on Midsummer's Day, and make their way into a Fairyland torn apart by centuries of strife--on one side is Fairy, caught in Winter, and on the other side, Goblin, bound to endless Summer. The five make allies on opposite sides of the conflict, and individually go on quests that will help to bring the shattered land back together--or destroy it forever.

I wrote the rough draft in 2002. It was the best thing I'd ever written. It probably still is the best thing I've ever written. But it has languished unrevised for most of a decade now, for the simple and rather pragmatic reason that people keep paying me to write other things. I literally haven't been able to afford to revise this book which is closest to my heart.

I was recently dumbstruck by the idea of making the Angles revisions a crowdfunded project. It gives me a deadline, it gives those readers who want to participate by buying in an opportunity to read a full novel, and it gets it done. So that's what I'm going to do.

The Angles commission will probably run for six months, as I'm setting a delivery deadline of July 1, 2011, but there's a catch:

I may close the commission as early as April 14, 3 months from now, if I get it done by then. I may give 24 hours' notice about it closing, or I may not. I'll post about this monthly or so, in order to remind people, but I won't ride it any harder than that. So if you want in, don't faff about too long. :)

Given that this is an actual novel, not just a novella or short stories, I've set a $15 buy-in, since my novels tend to be trade paperbacks with approximately that price tag.

And, because this is a revision project, I can for once offer a really decent teaser: Here are the first three unrevised chapters of RIGHT ANGLES TO FAIRYLAND. (Do bear in mind I wrote this almost ten years ago, and don't judge me too harshly. :))

As usual, the finished story will be delivered via email as a PDF (and *maybe* in ebook format--leave a note in the Paypal transaction if there's an e-format you'd like to have it delivered as) on or before July 1, 2011.

RIGHT ANGLES TO FAIRYLAND Revision Commission ($15)

or

RIGHT ANGLES TO FAIRYLAND Revision Commission "You are an artist..." Version