Woot! Just glanced at the Kickstarter, and we broke $100! We’re actually at $178 now, which means that we’re 1/10th of the way to our goal. Thanks, supporters! Every dollar helps! Making indie publishing happen. SLF Podcast: Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans Mary Anne Mohanraj is raising funds for SLF Podcast: Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are […]
So, I have to admit, when Ben and I started this podcast, we really didn’t know what it would end up as! Every May, normally, Ben and I pile into my car, usually with Jed Hartman and Alex Gurevich, and sometimes others squeeze in, like Liz Gorinsky. It’s a 2.5 hour drive from Chicago to
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“Mary Anne Mohanraj and Benjamin Rosenbaum planned an epic Summer 2020 US Road Trip to publicize their new books. Now it’s coronapocalypse time, and that road trip is going to have to be a podcast. Join two old friends as they talk about science fiction, community, the writing life, teaching, parenting, and a whole lot
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Eep! I accidentally hit launch on our podcast Kickstarter, when I hadn’t planned to launch until November 15th, so I could build a little pre-launch excitement. I immediately wrote to Kickstarter to ask if they could un-launch, but they haven’t written back yet, and now we already have a backer, so I think maybe we
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When you leave the doors and windows open to your shed because it’s so unseasonably warm it feels like summer, but the trees know better, and so now your shed is full of fallen leaves — a little clean-up is going to happen before I settle down to writing today. This run of warm weather
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Our comic is continuing to progress, despite our mutual distractedness this week. (All artwork by Margaret Treanor Frey). The Patreon is up — we’ll probably do a Kickstarter at some point after the holidays…
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I have GOT to get a Kickstarter for our podcast up and running, but I have NO BRAIN. NO BRAIN NO BRAIN NO BRAIN. I’d planned to have it up Nov 1, but this election, gah. I completely forgot until TODAY. Is it a bad idea to run a Kickstarter from say, 11/6 – 12/6?
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Well, that was unexpected. I needed a writing sample for this fellowship application, and I pondered for a bit and realized what I really wanted to submit was a food essay, since I’m hoping to write and place a bunch of food essays, then turn them into some kind of memoir-thing. But I’ve actually been
Filling out a long fellowship application due today and revisiting a host of questions about what you’ve accomplished lately and whether your work is actually any good, and why you seem to have at least five different major focuses to your career turns out to be a decent distraction from election anxiety, so I guess,
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