{"id":81,"date":"2015-07-01T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/07\/01\/im-writing-for-clarion-west\/"},"modified":"2015-07-01T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T04:46:00","slug":"im-writing-for-clarion-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2015\/07\/01\/im-writing-for-clarion-west\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m writing for Clarion West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty bad about promoting my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionwest.org\/writeathon\/\">Clarion West Write-a-thon<\/a> participation this year, but I&#8217;m starting up the marketing machine now. If you&#8217;re not sick of hearing about it by the time August rolls around, well, I&#8217;m doing something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell: this is the time for you, genre fiction lover, to make a fully tax-deductible donation to support Clarion West, a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation which runs a six-week workshop every summer, often described as &#8220;boot camp for writers.&#8221; I attended CW last year, and it was an amazing experience with wonderful people.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m donating this year to support all my classmates (<a href=\"http:\/\/hotsheet.snout.org\/2015\/06\/i-am-on-black-highway-at-night.html\">listed previously<\/a>). You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionwest.org\/members\/sparckl\/\">sponsor me<\/a> as I finish revising my novel <i>Waypoint Kangaroo<\/i> for my editor at Thomas Dunne Books, who plan to publish it next summer! And then I&#8217;m moving on to short stories, and the second Kangaroo novel (also under contract to Thomas Dunne).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my page (use the &#8220;Sponsor&#8221; link to donate via PayPal):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionwest.org\/members\/sparckl\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-LcRw81jjRMY\/VZTLPdFK9FI\/AAAAAAAB0wY\/9NxDbqQA0nc\/s400\/cw-writeathon-2015-ckl.jpg\" \/><br \/><small>http:\/\/www.clarionwest.org\/members\/sparckl\/<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To sweeten the pot, here are some rewards I&#8217;m offering for my supporters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donate <b>$64<\/b> and you&#8217;ll get a sneak peek at more of &#8220;Ten Days Up&#8221; (the writing sample on my Write-a-thon profile), which will be published this November in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1476780943\/curtiscchensfree\"><i>Mission: Tomorrow<\/i><\/a> anthology.<\/li>\n<li>Donate <b>$128<\/b> and you&#8217;ll get a signed paperback copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/curtiscchen.com\/512book\/\"><i>Thursday&#8217;s Children: Flash Fiction from 512 Words or Fewer<\/i><\/a> (free shipping to continental US).<\/li>\n<li>Donate <b>$256<\/b> and I&#8217;ll share a &#8220;mix tape&#8221; of some of my favorite film scores which I use as background music when writing.<\/li>\n<li>Donate <b>$512<\/b> and I will put together a fiction-themed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzledpint.com\/\">Puzzled Pint<\/a> &#8220;party pack&#8221; (4 puzzles + 1 meta) for you to share with your friends!<\/li>\n<li>Donate <b>$1,024<\/b> and you can name a minor character in the second Kangaroo novel (subject to editorial approval).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now. Have a safe and happy Fourth of July weekend!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"Curtis\" title=\"Curtis\" border=\"0\" height=\"32\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been pretty bad about promoting my Clarion West Write-a-thon participation this year, but I&#8217;m starting up the marketing machine now. If you&#8217;re not sick of hearing about it by the time August rolls around, well, I&#8217;m doing something wrong&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theiinmeat","category-writeathon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}