Okay, so this is just funny to me. We asked Darius Vinesar to pull some clips from the podcast that we could use to advertise the Kickstarter. Right? I have to note here, because it’s very relevant, that in addition to being our audio / video editor on the podcast, he’s also a young writer […]
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We’re almost up to $400 on the Kickstarter, which is pretty good progress for 5 days in, I think! (Aiming for $1500 total.) Here’s today’s three-minute podcast clip — this one’s for readers and for writers both. Ben and I start this clip talking about my trying not to mis-step around trans issues with my
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Hey, exciting news! Kickstarter has picked our podcast, “Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans,” as a “Project We Love” — that’ll get it some extra publicity, which is great. It’s also just nice to be appreciated. Woot! Stop over and check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/…/slf-podcast-mohanraj-and…
Woot! Kickstarter is 20% funded AND we broke $300 (on a $1500 goal). Day three is rolling along nicely. Join us here: SLF Podcast: Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans Mary Anne Mohanraj is raising funds for SLF Podcast: Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans on Kickstarter! A podcast about science fiction and fantasy, writing and publishing,
Day 3 of our podcast Kickstarter, and I’m delighted to note that we’ve also started scheduling guests. Cadwell Turnbull has just confirmed (a brilliant young Black writer working in the postcolonial alien space), and Delia Sherman and Ellen Kushner (we’ll be talking about queerness and Jewishness and writing in shared worlds and interstitial literary existence).
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Woot! Podcast Kickstarter has broken $200 — we’re at $228 now. My calculator tells me that $1500 / $228 = 6.57etc., so I’d say we’re 1/7th of the way there. Not bad for about 24 hours in! https://www.kickstarter.com/…/slf-podcast-mohanraj-and…
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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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Congratulations, Asha Thanki! 2020—The Speculative Literature Foundation and DesiLit are pleased to announce that Asha Thanki is the winner of the $1000 2020 A.C. Bose Grant. Thanki’s winning piece is titled “Somewhere in Bombay, a Fog Descends.” Thanki is a fiction writer and essayist living in Minneapolis, where she is completing an MFA at the
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