Eek, Indiegogo, please say this is a mistake!

This morning I woke up to a tweet from my editor that Indiegogo had charged $475 to her credit card. This has got to be a glitch of the worst kind. My editor has probably already submitted an email to get this cleared up, but talk about bad luck. We’ve only just start the campaign and have three contributions totaling $45. So according to Indiegogo’s terms for flexible funding they say they want 9% for a transaction fee. $475 is…um, a lot more than we’ve made so far. I sure hope was can clear this up, because it would suck if I had to help pay pay my editor for our efforts to get her some money to pay down her college debts. =^/

We’ll hopefully get this sorted out soon. Once we do, I was thinking about adding a couple of new print books to the raffle, but they’re not from me. They do fit in with the same theme of fantasy, as I’ll be adding Martin Millar’s Lonely Werewolf Girl and Curse of the Wolf Girl. I’d like to add more to make the raffle a big deal, but the shipping costs on those three books will be a leeetle on the expensive side. Still, the winner of the raffle will get three great books in print, plus a few ebooks, depending on which incentive level they spring for.

We could really use more attention on this, so if you have a blog and want to share a link to the campaign, it would be greatly appreciated. Several people on Twitter have retweeted links from me and from Tara, but tweets don’t tend to last very long in a fast moving stream, while a blog post has a better chance of catching peoples’ attention. We appreciate all the help we can get with signal boosts.

And while our campaign is starting slowly, I did get another email last night that a campaign to help pay for medicine for the editor of Loose ID went well past its initial goals, which is fantastic news for Raven. She’s got enough cash to make some breathing room for herself, and money in the bank for extra medication. I donated a tiny amount to this, but some people donated a whole lot more. The campaign actually made its goal in two days. Just…wow.

I’d love to get similar results for Tara’s campaign, but we’ll see what happens. First we still have to find out why so much money was taken from Tara before the campaign collected one tenth of their withdrawal.

EDIT: The charge appears to have been removed, so panic is over for now. =^D