Down to the wire: help us end the suspense
Three days left to meet the Kickstarter goal... or get nothing
Welcome to our hundred or so new subscribers!
We interrupt our usual every-other-week schedule with this urgent message:
We are 78% to our pledge goal of $60,000 in our crowdfunding campaign. If we don’t make it to this goal by the end of this Thursday—three days from now—we will get nothing.
If you haven’t yet made a pledge, please consider hopping onto the campaign site now and selecting one of the many rewards, including query-letter consults, 25-page consults, and full-manuscript consults, as well as books, of course, and merch. If we don’t meet our funding goal, we will be behind in our ability to select and produce our first collection of three books.
We’re back from the exhilarating (if exhausting) Muse and the Marketplace literary conference in Boston. What a joy to be back in person among so many writers for the first time in five years. The Park Plaza Hotel was buzzing with electric energy, and we had a constant stream of writers visit our Galiot Press table. We kicked off our time at the conference with a standing-room-only session we presented on the inner workings of the publishing industry, sharing what we feel all writers should know as they contemplate paths to publication. We are considering turning this presentation into a recurring class. Here we are in our somewhat accidental matchiness! (We of course planned the t-shirts, but not the coordinated pants.)
Throughout the conference we kept receiving wonderful feedback on the session and on our vision and plans. What we are doing is really resonating with many, many writers. We know it resonates with you, too, which is why we are appealing to you to help us get to our crowdfunding goal. We promise after Thursday we will stop harping on this.
AND: during the lovely keynote conversation between award-winning author Emily St. John Mandel and author Courtney Denelle, we both perked up and grinned when Emily said “I find the novels that are the most interesting to me are the ones that are an amalgamation of several genres. At this point it’s more of a selling point. With Sea of Tranquility I tried to fit in as many genres as possible. Historical fiction, literary fiction, science fiction, and detective novel.” YES!
A few other bits of news:
We have a new interview up with Jungle Red Writers (thank you Hank Phillippi Ryan!) titled “Can the book process be re-envisioned?” (Spoiler alert: it can.)
Henriette will be teaching an online class on May 22nd from 6 pm to 9 pm called “What your character wants: using desire to propel your novel.” Register here.
The application process is open for our 5-day workshop in Wellfleet, MA (on beautiful Cape Cod) which will run from November 8th to November 13th.
But if you do just one thing today, please pledge to our Kickstarter!
With much gratitude,
Anjali & Henriette
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