You know what happens when you move cross-country in the middle of the Strange Horizons fund drive? You forget -entirely- to mention it on your blog. Horrors!
Strange Horizons has been publishing fabulous science fiction (and related nonfiction) every week since 2000. I think we do pretty good work, and we’ve helped introduce some of the best new writers in the field. We’re also doing it all with our own quirky funding model–we pay professional rates to our authors, but we present all of our content free to the public. No subscriptions, no login, no strings attached. Being free from corporate overlords means that we can take some chances and be a little offbeat when we want to be, but it also means we’re heavily dependent on reader donations.
This time around, we’re trying to raise $6000 in our annual fund drive, which currently represents about one-third of our annual budget. At the time I’m writing this, the fund drive thermometer reads $5245. We’ve had about two hundred dollars in donations come in since the thermometer was updated this afternoon, but that means that we still need to raise about $500. We’re so close! So close.
We’re extending the fund drive for another couple of days, in the hopes of making our goal. If you donate, you’ll be eligible for lovely gifts and prizes, all of which are explained on our fund drive pages. If you blog about the fund drive, you also might win a fabulous additional prize. Most importantly, though, donating to Strange Horizons helps keep us publishing. If you like what we do–whether it’s our critically-acclaimed fiction, our absolutely stellar reviews department, our range of columnists, our soon-to-resume-broadcasting podcast, our award-winning poetry, or any of the other exciting SF content that our staff of hard-working volunteers provides you with every week–consider kicking a few bucks our way. Help us wrap this thing up, yeah?
Posted Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 8:04 pm. Filed under: science fiction.
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