Guinness for all

I am told that I should actually post this here daily as well as on Twitter and FB, so I’m doing as I’m told: this is your daily reminder to vote for the #LastDays project! Click here to vote! And while you’re there, how about voting for my friend Swan River Press’s newly submitted project? It’s just a click and it’d do him a lot of good! Vote for Swan River Press too!

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Last Days

Guys, you guys are amazing. The ‪#‎LastDays‬ project is halfway to catching up with the #1 voted arts project, in like two days. I’m going to have to do something nice for you. A third chapter of MANNERS & MAGIC? https://www.arthurguinnessprojects.com/arts/last-days-of-ancient-sunlight

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Last Days of Ancient Sunlight

In the near future, a visionary leader brings Ireland to the forefront of green technology while in Alaska, communities displaced by the rising seas struggle to rebuild without losing their sense of self. Disparate worlds collide when fracked-out gas fields in middle America collapse, finally destabilizing the last of the old-world power regime in The Last Days of Ancient Sunlight. Here begins a few weeks of probably-daily vote hounding, because I’ve applied for a grant which has a first step of reality-show-style popularity contest to it. Arthur Guinness Projects is…

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the essential kit

ElectriCity

Author Kait Nolan wrote a blog about Kickstarters and platforms (featuring me!), which caused me to go have a look at the most successful fiction Kickstarters. NO DOMINION’s still in the top 15, which surprised and delighted me. DINOPOCALYPSE NOW, which I’ll be writing a book for next month, is still in the top 5. (And Tim Pratt’s latest Marla Mason novel is also in the top 20! Yay!) The whole thing made me kinda want to run another Kickstarter. Kinda. :) I’m not going to (despite somebody asking for…

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Anti-Capitalism: The Musical!

A couple weeks ago I posted about the musical my sister is developing. I filmed the performance they did, and she’s got the video up now: She’s now trying to get Arts Council funding for further development, and needs a whole lot of local support in the form of: – a director – a production manager – a stage manager – a producer – a costume designer – a set designer – a dramaturg – an Arts Council-funded venue willing to support her Now, here’s some of the tricky stuff:…

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