Rachel Edwards Editor in Chief
Dear friends, acquaintances and randoms,
I am writing to ask you to support Transportation islands and cities, a collection of new short stories from London and Tasmania.
Transportation islands and cities is the first in an international collaborative series of books and we have now have confirmed an Iranian editor to join our London editor and myself for the next issue. We are releasing the first edition over the next weeks and launching in Tasmania at Fullers in Hobart on January 15 and in the UK at Rough Trade in Nottingham on February 1 with other events to follow.
We are delighted to announce that Peter Conrad has written our first introduction.
We are paying our writers (and printing costs) but all of the curating, promotion and editing have been done for free. We successfully crowdfunded $10 000 earlier in the year to cover those costs and we are now running a small campaign for incidentals (such as ISBN and barcode, international transfer costs, hidden printing costs such as proof despatch, professional memberships, incorporation and the list goes on!). We would also like to bring London editor, Sean Preston to Tasmania for an event in the new year.
To meet these costs we are running a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible. http://www.pozible.com/project/188292
It would be truly wonderful if you could support this project – and there are some great rewards.
You can view the list of our current supporters here. It includes a range of high profile professionals from around the world, politicians from all walks of life, leaders in many sectors, our friends and our Mums and Dads.
We have business sponsors on board including Tasmanian Whisky Tours, Fullers Bookshop, Sharpen Creative Industries Consulting, the Cygnet Folk Festival and Pagan Cider.
Every donor will be named in our publication and website unless you prefer not to be.
Thank you if you have already pledged, we would still ask you to share the project with your networks and ask them to pledge. – I apologise in advance for any cross postings
Thank you in anticipation and we wish you a beautiful New Year,
Rachel
Transportation: islands and cities is a collection of short stories from Tasmanians and Londoners to be published in book form in late 2014.
Crowdfunding – http://www.pozible.com/project/188292
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