Sea Monster Month at Torn World, a personal Sea Monster Card project, and Sketch Fest!

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Over at Torn World, May is Sea Monster Month! Stay tuned this whole month for updates about our monstrous ocean denizens. Articles, fiction, poetry, artwork and more... it's a month sure to delight the nautical naturalist.

I am launching a personal project in conjunction with this event - Sea Monster Art Cards! I am committed to completing 20 cards, and supporters may bump that up higher. Collect prints, or originals, or commission your own monster card! Win prizes! http://ellenmillion.livejournal.com/1373367.html

And last, but not least, this weekend is Sketch Fest #37! It starts Friday at noon (Alaska time) and runs 48 hours to Sunday at noon. Join us with prompts and sketch to your muse's contentment in any media. You may sell your Sketch Fest sketches, or originals you finish later, through the site. http://www.ellenmilliongraphics.com/sketchfest/

Hunt Press: Lost Cantos of the Ouroboros Caves - The Audiobook

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Hey folks!

So, it's been crazypants over here, because I'm in the middle of moving house (Moving Day is in five days), but wanted to let you know about this absolutely amazing freaking thing that dropped in our laps over at Hunt Press.

Back in December, Maggie Schein, the author of Lost Cantos, was made the kind of offer that most authors dream of, and she brought it to me and the Press, hoping we could bring it to life. Not one, not two, but *four* award-winning artists (three of them Grammy winners) are interested in helping get her book narrated and professionally produced as an audiobook. One of those artists is Grammy award-winner, singer/songwriter, and author, Janis Ian (author of: Society’s Child: My Autobiography, which just won her a second Grammy out of nine nominations, songwriter of: “At Seventeen,” “Jesse,” and “When Angels Cry,” you know, that Janis Ian). Already a beloved and strong promoter of Maggie’s book, she is our first choice for narrator and has said she would be honored to bring Maggie’s words to auditory life. The same production team that produced Janis' audiobook, Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir of Skyboat Media (combined they are a powerhouse of authorial, production, and brilliant narrative talent with such credits as the audiobook version of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, along with 3,350 other audiobooks, you know, that Stefan Rudnicki and Gabrielle de Cuir), would also like to participate.

And as if that wasn’t fabulous enough, Pat Conroy (author of: The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides, you know, that Pat Conroy) has already agreed to narrate the foreword that he wrote for the book.

To say that I walked around in a daze when Maggie told me all of this, is an understatement of the first water.

But there’s a catch.

To do an audiobook of this caliber, with this sort of talent and the production staff that is involved requires a budget that is far beyond the grasp of pretty much any small press, let alone us.

But you know what I’m going to say now, don’t you? There’s this thing called crowdfunding and the glory and wonder that is all of you.

Please check it out: http://igg.me/at/lost-cantos/x/12262

It's a giant budget for a small press like us of $20,000.  But I know with your help, we can bring an amazing audiobook into the world and make small press history.