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crowdfundingCatherynne M. Valente, famous for her fabulous fairy tales embodied in The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden and In the Cities of Coin and Spice, recently published Palimpsest, a searing and erotic work about a viral city. I wasn't totally enamored of the book, but one thing that emphatically did enchant me was her references to a fictional young adult novel called The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
As part of promotion for her novel, she even wrote the beginning of the novel and had a reading of it recorded for the ostensible novelist's website.
Well, now Catherynne is experimenting with cyberfunded creativity and actually bringing The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making into the world! She's starting this next Monday, posting them at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yuki_onna.
Considering the beginning reminds me in the best way of Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum, I'm quite excited to see this project unfold.
(Button above links to her initial post on the subject.)
P.S. Oh, I should mention as well that she also does a monthly story-mailing called the Omikuji Project. There are two subscription levels - one for e-mail, one for postal mail - that bring you a well-crafted story and some bit of visual artistry. There's also a prize (ranging from wrist-warmers to necklaces to blown glass) that's sent to one random subscriber each month, inspired by the story. A community's grown up around the project at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
omikuji_project, where members build mixtape track-listings for stories and even engage in round-robin storytelling inspired by the monthly tale.
If you're curious about the level of work being delivered each month, see my review of the very first installment here: "The Glass Gear."
(Crossposted to my personal journal.)
As part of promotion for her novel, she even wrote the beginning of the novel and had a reading of it recorded for the ostensible novelist's website.
Well, now Catherynne is experimenting with cyberfunded creativity and actually bringing The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making into the world! She's starting this next Monday, posting them at
yuki_onna. Considering the beginning reminds me in the best way of Lewis Carroll and L. Frank Baum, I'm quite excited to see this project unfold.
(Button above links to her initial post on the subject.)
P.S. Oh, I should mention as well that she also does a monthly story-mailing called the Omikuji Project. There are two subscription levels - one for e-mail, one for postal mail - that bring you a well-crafted story and some bit of visual artistry. There's also a prize (ranging from wrist-warmers to necklaces to blown glass) that's sent to one random subscriber each month, inspired by the story. A community's grown up around the project at
omikuji_project, where members build mixtape track-listings for stories and even engage in round-robin storytelling inspired by the monthly tale. If you're curious about the level of work being delivered each month, see my review of the very first installment here: "The Glass Gear."
(Crossposted to my personal journal.)
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Cool!
Date: 2009-06-11 10:01 pm (UTC)Whether or not the story works out, the title totally rocks.