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ysabetwordsmith The February Poetry Fishbowl is open in my LiveJournal with a theme of "vision & sight." Come give me prompts and watch for the poems to appear.
Feb. 8th, 2011
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Poetry Fishbowl Open!
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ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com The February Poetry Fishbowl is open in my LiveJournal with a theme of "vision & sight." Come give me prompts and watch for the poems to appear.
A Nominees/Voting Posts Round-Up
Feb. 8th, 2011 05:43 pmalexandraerin.livejournal.comThe Rose and Bay Award focuses on a growing business model known as "crowdfunding" or "cyberfunded creativity," which directly connects creative people and patrons of the arts online. This award recognizes exemplary projects and enthusiastic patrons. It spans six categories: Art, Fiction, Poetry, Webcomic, Other Project, and Patron. (Other Project includes any cyberfunded creativity that isn't art, fiction, poetry, or webcomic -- or that spans more than one category.)
Art Category Nominees:
- Between Heaven & Hell by Angela Hunt (aka Quennessa) Alternate Link
- Moonvoice's Art by Moonvoice (aka Ravenari) Alternate Link 1 Alternate Link 2
- Paintbox, the Art of Silvertales by Kitsune of Silvertales
- Sketch Fest by Ellen Million (aka Ellenmillion)
- Stardancer Art Archive by M.C.A. Hogarth (aka Haikujaguar) Alternate Link 1 Alternate Link 2
- Tod's Icon Days by Tod Wills (aka Djinni)
Vote For The Art Category Here
Patron Category
- Marina Bonomi aka marina_bonomi for support of "Poetry Fishbowl Project" by Elizabeth Barrett
- Lorena Dinger aka laffingkat for support of "Poetry Fishbowl Project" by Elizabeth Barrett and "Feast and Nibbles of Poetry" by Anna Waite
- Nicole Robertson aka minor_architect for support of "Poetry Fishbowl Project" by Elizabeth Barrett
- m0usegrrl (LJ) for support of "Spots the Space Marine" by M.C.A. Hogarth
- tango (LJ) for support of "Spots the Space Marine" by M.C.A. Hogarth
- Charissa Cotrill AKA charnanigans (Twitter) for support of Gabriel Gadfly's Poetry
- aerynvale (LJ) for support of "Wonder City Stories" by Jude McLaughlin
- badfaun (LJ) for support of "Wonder City Stories" by Jude McLaughlin
- Elizabeth Barrette aka ysabetwordsmith (LJ) for support of "Art for Haiti Relief" by Nashay Jones
- Michelle Goldberg for support of "Torn World" and "Sketch Fest" by Ellen Million
- Selina Fenech for support of "Sketch Fest"
- V aka Vercin for support of "The Philosopher in Arms" by Karen Wehrstein
- Selina Fenech for support of "Sketch Fest"
Vote For The Patron Category Here
Other Project Category Nominees:
- "Titania" by Lisa Stock Alternate Link
- "The Three Micahs" by M.C.A. Hogarth, aka haikujaguar
- "Business Rusch (Changing Times)" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- "Torn World" by Ellen Million, Elizabeth Barrette, Deirdre Murphy, Valerie Higgins, and others
- "Belladonna Smiles" by Bone Poets Orchestra (Christopher Bingham, aka suddenlynaked, and bandmates)
- "Mischief" by S.J. Tucker
- Dandelyon's Card Draws drawn by Deirdre Murphy, aka wyld_dandelyon
- "Duotrope's Digest" - Duotrope LLC (founded by a team of published writers and former editors)
- "Tierra" by Xera
- "The Dragon Wagon" by Christian Breeden Alternate Link 1 Alternate Link 2
Vote For The Other Project Category Here
Poetry Category Nominees:
- "Fayanora's Poetry Fishbowl" by Faynora Alternate Link 1 Alternate Link 2
- "Poetry Fishbowl at The Wordsmith's Forge" by Elizabeth Barrette (aka ysabetwordsmith)
- "Feasts of Poetry and Poetry Nibbles" by Anna Waite aka stryck
- "Gabriel Gadfly's Poetry" by Gabriel Gadfly
Vote For The Poetry Category Here
Fiction Category Nominees:
Note: The fiction nominees have been split up into two "heats" because there are more nominees than LJ survey posts will allow. You may vote for one in each arbitrary grouping. There will be a second round of voting later.
Group 1:
- Sythyry's Vacation by Bard Bloom
- Spots the Space Marine by M.C.A. Hogarth, aka haikujaguar
- Addergoole by Lyn Thorne-Alder aka aldersprig
- Tin Man by robling_t
- Wonder City Stories by Jude McLaughlin (aka Dreamwidth user wonder_city)
- Strong Heart by Capriox Bovidae
- Lovers and Beloveds by MeiLin Miranda
- Tales of MU by Alexandra Erin
- A Frosty Girl's Cure by Zoe E Whitten
- A Frosty Girl's Cure by Zoe E Whitten
Group 2:
- Feather-Blessed by Deirdre Murphy aka wyld_dandelyon
- Fireborn by Deirdre Murphy aka wyld_dandelyon
- The Peacock King by Irk and Char (Infernal Shenanigans)
- The City of Roses by Kip Manley
- Tapestry by Wysteria
- Anachronauts by Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne
- Eclipse Court by Shirley Meier
- The Philosopher In Arms by Karen Wehrstein
- Snakeskin by Jessica Anne FitzGerald (Blue Coyote)
Vote For The Fiction Category Here
Webcomic Category Nominees:
- "Alien Dice" by Tiffany Ross (aka Syke)
- "Dicebox" by Jenn Manley Lee
- "Girl Genius" by Phil & Kaja Foglio
- "Gnoph" by Kelsea Jewell (aka Mina Lunga)
- "Gunnerkrigg Court" by Tom Siddell
- "Kagerou" by Luka Delaney
- "Khaos Komix" by Tab Kimton (aka Khaoskomix)
- "Less Than Epic Adventures of TJ and Amal" by E.K. Weaver (aka gallo_de_pelea)
- "Little Tales" by Genesis Eve Cooper (aka Gen)
- "Oglaf" by Trudy Cooper
- "OpinioNation" by William Brian MacLean (aka wbm)
Vote For The Webcomic Category Here
Note: I am not affiliated with the Rose And Bay Awards. I am a nominee in the category of fiction. I'm creating this post because I wish to publicize the awards further and give people who aren't familiar with the crowdfunded works under consideration a chance to explore the nominees and vote, but I cannot find a concise "ballot" that lists the nominees and links to the works under consideration and gives the opportunity to vote in the same place. Please feel free to link to/share this post.
Where multiple links were included for a nominee, I've tried to order them in terms of immediacy, so that you can click on the first link and see examples of their work or find out what it's about without digging. I omitted some alternate links that were simply informational pages contained within the main link.
alexandraerin.livejournal.comI sometimes feel like I'm the last to hear about things because I'm not that socially-oriented, but I've been making my living through crowdfunded fiction for three years now and I just found out about PayPal's micropayment rate.
In case anybody else is as bereft of clue as I was: you go to this page (note: the page may not work in some browsers) and sign up. It takes about two business days for PayPal to switch you over. Once activated, the new rate applies to all transactions where money is sent to you. What it does is make the transaction fee equal to $0.05 + 5% (international rates vary).
For transactions up to about $12, this makes a huge difference. If someone sends you a buck under the regular rats, you'll lose about a third of it. With the micropayment rate, you keep 90% of it.
You pay a bit more for larger transactions, but not so much that it'll make a difference when most of your money comes in in dribs and drabs. I doubt many crowdfunded authors see as many large donations as I do, and it's still more cost effective for me to be on micropayments. On a $300 payment, for instance, there's about a $6 difference. It doesn't take many smaller payments to make up and exceed that.
If you're not on micropayments, give a quick thought to how most of your money comes in. If it's in the $1-10 range, you'll definitely benefit. If you're mostly selling things in blocks of money in the $15-20 range and up, you probably won't. While it's more involved than a check box in your PayPal dashboard, you can have it changed in the future if you go to micropayments and your situation later changes.
I also think we should update any tip/instructional posts that refer people to PayPal in order to reflect this information, as it will be invaluable to most crowdfunders from the beginning.
In case anybody else is as bereft of clue as I was: you go to this page (note: the page may not work in some browsers) and sign up. It takes about two business days for PayPal to switch you over. Once activated, the new rate applies to all transactions where money is sent to you. What it does is make the transaction fee equal to $0.05 + 5% (international rates vary).
For transactions up to about $12, this makes a huge difference. If someone sends you a buck under the regular rats, you'll lose about a third of it. With the micropayment rate, you keep 90% of it.
You pay a bit more for larger transactions, but not so much that it'll make a difference when most of your money comes in in dribs and drabs. I doubt many crowdfunded authors see as many large donations as I do, and it's still more cost effective for me to be on micropayments. On a $300 payment, for instance, there's about a $6 difference. It doesn't take many smaller payments to make up and exceed that.
If you're not on micropayments, give a quick thought to how most of your money comes in. If it's in the $1-10 range, you'll definitely benefit. If you're mostly selling things in blocks of money in the $15-20 range and up, you probably won't. While it's more involved than a check box in your PayPal dashboard, you can have it changed in the future if you go to micropayments and your situation later changes.
I also think we should update any tip/instructional posts that refer people to PayPal in order to reflect this information, as it will be invaluable to most crowdfunders from the beginning.
Allow me to introduce myself.
Feb. 8th, 2011 06:59 pmalexandraerin.livejournal.comSorry I didn't make the requested intro post first... I joined the community because I wanted to share the "ballot post" I made to aid my own efforts in promoting the RAB awards, and then I realized I had learned a great tip for crowdfunding in the past few days and wanted to share that, too.
My name is Alexandra Erin. Anyone here who's heard of me is probably wondering why I'm introducing myself, but the nature of the world in which we deal our dreams is that it doesn't matter how kind of a big deal you are in one circle, there's another circles three inches away where nobody has a clue who you are. My goal for this year is to look for ways to break down the walls between those circles as much as possible.
That's why I took the time to make a post where people can easily browse all the nominees for the awards. If someone tells their readers/fans/supporters to go and vote, I want those people to be able to check out all the nominees, the works and artists they've never heard of and would never have heard of without these awards collecting them all in one place. I want it to be easy for them to do this. Right now people have to click back and dig through the comments on the nomination posts to find the addresses, some of which are actual clickable links and some of which are naked URLS. I want it to be easy for people to flit from the stuff they know and love to the stuff they don't know and might love.
See, crowdfunded art is usually niche art, not just because it's niche art that needs alternative funding but because niche art has a better chance of succeeding through crowdfunding than mainstream art. People are deluged with examples of the predictable, the conventional, of things that recognizably follow the rules and color within the lines. They're starved for things that speak to them in new and daring ways, that speak to them more personally and more intimately than anything designed for a mass market can.
And that's what niche art does. A given piece of niche art won't speak to everyone, of course, but the people it does speak to, it will do so powerfully, so that's why we have to make it as easy for people to find it as possible.
To those of you who haven't heard of me or have seen my name but aren't familiar with me: hi! Hello! I write Tales of MU. I like crowdfunding because it keeps food on my table, a roof over my head, and internet on my computer... and also because it means I can put the comma on the outside of enclosing punctuation if it's not actually a part of the quoted material, and no one can tell me otherwise.
Also, to the other nominees in the category of fiction: I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
My name is Alexandra Erin. Anyone here who's heard of me is probably wondering why I'm introducing myself, but the nature of the world in which we deal our dreams is that it doesn't matter how kind of a big deal you are in one circle, there's another circles three inches away where nobody has a clue who you are. My goal for this year is to look for ways to break down the walls between those circles as much as possible.
That's why I took the time to make a post where people can easily browse all the nominees for the awards. If someone tells their readers/fans/supporters to go and vote, I want those people to be able to check out all the nominees, the works and artists they've never heard of and would never have heard of without these awards collecting them all in one place. I want it to be easy for them to do this. Right now people have to click back and dig through the comments on the nomination posts to find the addresses, some of which are actual clickable links and some of which are naked URLS. I want it to be easy for people to flit from the stuff they know and love to the stuff they don't know and might love.
See, crowdfunded art is usually niche art, not just because it's niche art that needs alternative funding but because niche art has a better chance of succeeding through crowdfunding than mainstream art. People are deluged with examples of the predictable, the conventional, of things that recognizably follow the rules and color within the lines. They're starved for things that speak to them in new and daring ways, that speak to them more personally and more intimately than anything designed for a mass market can.
And that's what niche art does. A given piece of niche art won't speak to everyone, of course, but the people it does speak to, it will do so powerfully, so that's why we have to make it as easy for people to find it as possible.
To those of you who haven't heard of me or have seen my name but aren't familiar with me: hi! Hello! I write Tales of MU. I like crowdfunding because it keeps food on my table, a roof over my head, and internet on my computer... and also because it means I can put the comma on the outside of enclosing punctuation if it's not actually a part of the quoted material, and no one can tell me otherwise.
Also, to the other nominees in the category of fiction: I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.