{"id":5502,"date":"2011-05-21T06:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2011-05-20T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T10:18:53","slug":"the-excitement-mounts-tales-for-canterbury-goes-to-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/05\/21\/the-excitement-mounts-tales-for-canterbury-goes-to-press\/","title":{"rendered":"The Excitement Mounts: “Tales for Canterbury” Goes To Press"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One thing that happened in the early part of this week is that I completed the final proof of The Fountain<\/em><\/strong>, the short story that I donated to the Tales for Canterbury<\/span><\/a><\/strong> anthology, a\u00a0 fundraising project for the Christchurch earthquake recovery effort put together by Cassie Hart<\/strong><\/a> of SpecFicNZ<\/strong><\/a> and Anna Caro<\/a> <\/strong>of Random Static<\/strong><\/a>—all kudos to both of them.<\/p>\n

As a resident of Christchurch I am obviously very much in support—no surprises, you may say, that I am willing to put a story out there. What has been really gratifying though, has been the level of both national (extra-Christchurch) and international support.<\/p>\n

National authors include Phillipa Ballantine, Karen Healey, Tim Jones, Ripley Patton,<\/strong> & Mary Victoria<\/strong>, to name just a very few.<\/p>\n

International authors include Neil Gaiman, Gwyneth Jones, Jay Lake, Juliet Marillier<\/strong> and Sean Williams<\/strong> (again, to name just a few.)<\/p>\n

Tales for Canterbury<\/strong><\/em> is: “loosely themed around\u00a0survival, hope and the future.”<\/em> Given the lineup of both national and international writers I can only imagine that it’s going to be an “absolutely fabulous \ud83d\ude09 ” anthology.<\/p>\n

And yesterday editor Anna Caro emailed me that: ” … the book is at the printers!”<\/em> (“Woot!” I added, not to be undone.)<\/p>\n

Honestly though, this is a great moment and a great cause with “all profits … [of this anthology] … being donated\u00a0to the Red Cross Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The Tales for Canterbury <\/strong><\/em>project target is to raise $5000 for the earthquake appeal fund—and so far $1855 has been raised. A great way to help the cause is to preorder your copy—& maybe (no pressure!) a few extra as gifts. And<\/em> it’s really easy to preorder: all you have to do is go to the Random Static website here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The other really great thing that you can do is to spread the word—I think it would be fantastic if Tales for Canterbury<\/strong><\/em> went viral!<\/p>\n

I hope you will consider doing both or either, (& with bells on)\u00a0 because as I know I’ve said before: I think it’s going to be a great anthology—and it’s already a very worthy cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One thing that happened in the early part of this week is that I completed the final proof of The Fountain, the short story that I donated to the Tales for Canterbury anthology, a\u00a0 fundraising project for the Christchurch earthquake recovery effort put together by Cassie Hart of SpecFicNZ and Anna Caro of Random Static—all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-what-im-doing","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5590,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}