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It should come as no surprise that DAW has a special place in my heart. They are my publisher, after all. And without my lovely editor Betsy, I wouldn't be where I am today.

Continuing a long chain of generosity and kindness, the folks at DAW have donated boxes and boxes of books to Worldbuilders this year: signed books, out of print books, ARC's....

The truth is, they sent so many books that I can't fit them all into one blog. So this first one will just be the sig...

Hello everyone,

I've been letting things lull a bit over the holidays. I'm busy with family stuff, and I'm guessing most of you are too. Rest assured that in a couple of days Worldbuilders will be rolling along, strong as ever, and I'll be posting up more donations, auctions, interviews, and general coolness. I might even be reading y'all a story, if I can figure out how to work my new video camera and post things on Youtube...

For now, I'll just pass along a few pieces of of good news:

Donation...

Alright folks. Today we're going to take a break from listing prizes. Instead, I'm going to pass along some Worldbuilders news and answer a few questions that have cropped up.

Lastly, I'd like to get everyone's opinion on what to do with few of the rockstar prizes that have been donated by Neil Gaiman and Brandon Sanderson.

News

Donations and book totals:

The big news is that we're only 18 days into the fundraiser and we've already raised over 36,000 dollars. That's not counting the any of the m...

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That's right. I said plethora. You want to make something of it?

Today we have even more delicious books as prizes for the fundraiser. All of these have been donated by the authors themselves. This means two things:

1. All these books are signed.
2. These authors are cool as hell.

Oh sure, I know. You're thinking that ALL fantasy and Sci-Fi authors are cool as hell. And yeah, that's pretty much true. But these folks have taken it to the next level. They're doubleplus ...

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Imagine my delight when, for the second year, we received several hefty boxes of donations from Bad Moon Books.

Want to see them? Of course you do...

You'll forgive me if I'm not my normal verbose self today. Little Oot is sick, and I've got a lot of Christmas-is-coming things going on right now. Next year, I'm definitely starting the fundraiser earlier....

Three signed limited editions, one in traycase cover, of The Adventures of Mr. Maximillian Bacchus and His...

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Last year, as part of the fundraiser, I offered to read people's manuscripts and give them feedback if they made a sizable donation to the Heifer.

The response was much more enthusiastic than I expected. Several people took me up on the offer, with some donations going over three thousand dollars.

So this year I decided to expand things a bit. I've gathered a few professionals willing to donate their critiquing skills to the cause. ...

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Normally I like to wait at least a day between posts here on the blog so that one post doesn't accidentally bury another.

Fair warning, I'm breaking that rule today. That means if you're not careful you might miss yesterday's post that shows all the lovely books my UK publisher donated.

Okay. On to the new stuff. The time-sensitive stuff, we've got some auctions and they've only got five days left....


Last year when we ran the fundra...

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Well folks, the fundraiser's been going for just a little more than 10 days, and we've already hit 25,000 dollars. I think that means that we are awesome.

Well... almost. We're just a couple bucks short, but I'm calling it 25,000. Because that gives me an excuse to post up a celebratory blog full of more donated books.

Gollancz is my UK publisher. It is there, in ye olde London, where Gillian, my lovely UK editor, works.

When I was s...

Let me tell you a story.

Or rather, let me tell you a story about a story. (For those of you who know me, this shouldn't come as a surprise.)

Back in 2001, when I was toiling in the salt mines of grad school, my girlfriend Sarah and I had very different sleep schedules. I was up late, and she went to bed early.

One night, when she was going to bed, she jokingly asked me to tell her a story.

So I did, starting with with the most saccharine faerie-tale beginning I could think of: "Once upon a time,...

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Over the last couple years, I've done a lot of interviews. I'm guessing somewhere between two and three hundred.

While I always enjoy them to some degree or other, I have noticed that a lot of questions tend to be the same. And things tend to be rather formal. Rarely does anyone ask me stupid, fun questions like, "Who would you rather kiss, Samuel Delany or George Martin?"

So when I started collecting books for the fundraiser, I thought ...