ecosophia | Two Announcements from Founders House (Reply)

Just fielded a couple of welcome emails from Founders House Publishing, the outfit that publishes my tentacle fiction and the collected Archdruid Report essays. First, I'm delighted to announce that Silence in the City, an anthology of original stories about the end of the modern world, which had a successful Kickstarter late last year (and was promoted here among other places.) It's got pieces by Alex Shvartsman, David B. Coe, Dean Wesley Smith, Gini Koch, Kevin McLaughlin, D.A. D'Amico, Annie Reed, Joshua Palmatier, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kirsten Cross, D.B. Keele, Shaun Kilgore, and me. I've gotten my copy, and it looks really good. Interested? Check it out here.

In other Founders House news, owner Shaun Kilgore has been encouraged by the success of recent Kickstarters and is trying to establish steady funding for MYTHIC magazine, his flagship science fiction and fantasy quarterly, via Patreon. He writes:

"Right now, I am making an open request for those who have chosen to like or follow MYTHIC's page, to please consider supporting the magazine through Patreon. You can do that for as little as $1 a month.

"You can get each monthly issue in eBook formats (PDF, MOBI, or EPUB) for only $2 a month. For a bit more, ($5) you get the eBooks plus bonus books like Best of collections and access to the back issues of MYTHIC. At $10 monthly, you'll get eBooks and signed paperback issues.

"The aim continues to be able to sustainably pay authors pro rates. But I have quite a mountain to climb to get to 8 CENTS A WORD. I need all hands on deck, gang! Seriously. I've even set up goals again to give me something of a roadmap. I'll add more goals as we cross them off. Right now, I have those to get us to 5 CENTS A WORD. (We are at 1 CENT A WORD currently.) So, whaddya say?

Just think about this: If all of the followers and people who like this page jumped aboard even at $1 a month, we could almost get to 5 CENTS A WORD. Imagine if some of you became subscribers? We'd make some serious strides towards that 8 CENTS A WORD target!
https://www.patreon.com/mythicmag"

So there you have it. Imaginative fiction isn't quite dead yet!