I am participating in the Clarion West Write-a-thon this year. Since it’s been 9 years since my own Clarion West class (2008), I have decided to have 9 goals:

1. Write 3 new short story first drafts
2. Revise and submit 3 existing short stories
3. Add 3 chapters to my current novel WIP

The idea of the Write-a-thon is simple — writers commit to certain goals for the period of the current Clarion West workshop and collect donations that go to help the workshop. As I said on the website, I truly think of it as investing in the future of great speculative fiction. I have seen so many scarily talented people come out of the workshop and so I think it’s a no brainer to help support many years of fulfilling, enjoyable fiction for everyone.

I am not giving a specific fundraising goal, but I have decided to offer perks for people who want to donate specific amounts

I will be raffling off a complete series of my first three books — Falling Sky, Rising Tide, and Raining Fire — in print or ebook, personalized however you’d like.

For each $5 donation you get one entry for the raffle.

You get one additional entry for each $5 donation to one of my Clarion West 2008 Classmates:

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/douglaslucas/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/tracyharford/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/kira/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/psbains/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/tdelucci/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/aowomoyela/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/mcroft/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/shanusmagnus/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/carolryles/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/edenrobins/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/owen08/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/pamelarentz/

https://www.clarionwest.org/members/christopherreynaga/

For a $20 donation, you can read any of the revised stories before they’re published.

For a $50 donation (stolen from Caroline Yoachim),  I will write a story of indeterminate length (but probably short) based on 5-10 words that you supply as a prompt (I will only use some of them).

For $100 you will be tuckerized in an upcoming work, either a short story or novel.

I hope you will consider donating to what is a worthy source of future art and entertainment and sponsor me here.