Please spread the word: Clockwork Phoenix 4 Kickstarter now live
The Clockwork Phoenix series is important. As the editor of the Clockwork Phoenix series, Mike Allen published innovative, weird, daring fiction that defied definitions and pushed boundaries. Both in Clockwork Phoenix and Mythic anthologies, Allen assembled a diverse, international lineup of authors writing off-kilter. There is nothing quite like Clockwork Phoenix on the market, and we need that, because we need stories that do not fit in boxes, we need stories that are different and strange. After the demise of Fantasy magazine as edited by Wallace and Rambo, and the end of Ann Vandermeer's editorial gig at Weird Tales, I feel that we as a community need to support editors who take chances on weird tales and unclassifiable genre stories that are unexpected and daring. We need Clockwork Phoenix. Please consider supporting this Kickstarter.
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time_shark
at Please spread the word: Clockwork Phoenix 4 Kickstarter now liveI am very pleased, thrilled, chuffed (and perhaps even a little nervous) to announce that Anita and I have launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of raising the funds to assemble and publish a fourth volume of Clockwork Phoenix. It has a convenient Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/CP4antho
We very proud of the first three anthologies and we want to read for a fourth; but it's absolutely clear — even as successful as those first three books were, with the great reviews and award nominations our authors received — in this economic environment, if we want to continue making these books at the standard we want to hold them to, we have to crowdsource the funding and publish the next one ourselves.
If the project is a go, we'll open to submissions in September and aim for a June 2013 release.
I could go on about all the rewards we came up with and what we hope to accomplish, but it's probably much simpler if you just click the link (here! here!) and have a look at the Kickstarter page, where it's all spelled out.
Please help us spread the word! (And please feel free to repost this entry if you like.)
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Originally posted by
time_shark
at Please spread the word: Clockwork Phoenix 4 Kickstarter now liveI am very pleased, thrilled, chuffed (and perhaps even a little nervous) to announce that Anita and I have launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of raising the funds to assemble and publish a fourth volume of Clockwork Phoenix. It has a convenient Tiny URL: http://tinyurl.com/CP4anthoWe very proud of the first three anthologies and we want to read for a fourth; but it's absolutely clear — even as successful as those first three books were, with the great reviews and award nominations our authors received — in this economic environment, if we want to continue making these books at the standard we want to hold them to, we have to crowdsource the funding and publish the next one ourselves.
If the project is a go, we'll open to submissions in September and aim for a June 2013 release.
I could go on about all the rewards we came up with and what we hope to accomplish, but it's probably much simpler if you just click the link (here! here!) and have a look at the Kickstarter page, where it's all spelled out.
Please help us spread the word! (And please feel free to repost this entry if you like.)
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