State of the Chapbook

This is an update post about the status of Angels of the Meanwhile, the chapbook I am putting together to help Elizabeth R. McClellan (popelizbet) pay for expenses related to her shoulder injury. After I make this post, I'm going to tag the previous two posts on the subject with "aotm" so the link http://alexandraerin.dreamwidth.org/tag/aotm will show you the whole history of the subject so far.

Okay, so about a dozen poets have sent or pledged poems, and I have 2 or 3 pieces of prose of varying length either submitted or pledged. There's a good mix of original/unseen content and reprints, where I feel like we can offer a solid value. I would love to have more material, particularly more prose. Again, reprints are fine, and microfiction/flash fiction is fine. No minimum length. In fact, a bunch of very short pieces to set against the poetry would be great. I certainly have no shortage of my own such work to contribute, but I would rather not have it wind up looking like my own vanity project.

I am trying to put this together fairly quickly, but some contributors are already writing new work, so if you would love to pitch in but are worried that you don't have anything on hand, please shoot me a line to let me know you're interested.

Again, I'm asking people who are interested in helping out to email me at contactme@alexandraerin.com with the subject line "FOR POPELIZBET". Poetry, prose, artwork... all are welcome. Lizbet is a primarily speculative (melancholy dark fantasy, I would say) poet herself, and so things in that vein or with a witchy, earthy, down-home vibe are particularly appropriate. Mermaids and monster girls of all stripes also very welcome, as are works about hope and healing. If you're not sure if something would fit the mix, please send it anyway. I can try to describe how the thing is shaping up at the moment, but that doesn't mean I know where it's going.

Thursday, February 5th

The State of the Me

Two days in a row of waking up feeling pretty good. That's pretty good.

The Daily Report

The side project I've been posting about has been using up a bit of time and brain, though I'm still trying to keep a degree of separation between it and my work-work. The main effect is that I've gotten less done on my new story idea than I expected based on how the week began. I meant to have a dedicated post talking about what it is and what's going on by about mid-week. I guess it's still about mid-week, so maybe look for that in the afternoon.

I've been researching digital storefronts for reasons relating to the side project, and as a result I think I'm going to be moving my ebook operations from Sellfy to Gumroad. It just seems a little more powerful and user-friendly. I'm not going to jump ship just yet; I'm more going to be trying two ships at once for a while.

Plans For Today

In the morning I'm going to be putting some products up on Gumroad, so I can see how it works. Early afternoon, I'm going to be working on my new story. Today's a posting day for Tales of MU, so that's going to take up the end of the day.