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on December 24
Joanne Merriam
Posted project update #6Rewards sent out!
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on September 16, 2011Funded!
140 And Counting - an anthology of twitter literature by Joanne Merriam
141 clever little pieces of literature by 121 authors in 1 exquisite ebook.
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333% funded $1,001 pledged
- 38 backers
- Funded Sep 16, 2011
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on September 9, 2011
Joanne Merriam
Posted project update #548 for 48
Post CommentFolks, we need $165 to break $1,000. I've decided that anybody who donates $48 or more in the next 48 hours gets free copies of every book we publish for the next five years (the $100 reward level).
(The next 48 hours = until 7 pm Central/8 pm Eastern on Sunday.)
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on September 9, 2011
Joanne Merriam
Posted project update #4More new writing by contributors!
Post CommentNathalie Boisard-Beudin has a piece called "Stories in the possible making" in the ALMOST issue of We Still Like magazine.
Tess Almendarez Lojacono's book The Book Of Zane has a new website.
Ken Liu's novella, "The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary," is out in the novella-only anthology Panverse Three.
Neil Ellman has poetry in ditch, a Canadian poetry journal.
A. Jarrell Hayes' book To Woman, From Man: Love Poems is featured as book of the month for September in From A Writer's POV magazine.
The Tin Men, SF poetry by 140 And Counting contributor David Kopaska-Merkel and poet Kendall Evans, signed by both of them, is available $8 postpaid from David at jopnquog@gmail.com. He also has a flash piece in the September issue of Aoife's Kiss.
Steven Saus is currently serializing the self-promotion guide Sans Spam.
Residential Aliens has just published the short story "Men Who Cry Wolf" by Francis W. Alexander. He and Deborah Walker have poems in the August issue of Scifaikuest.
Richard Stevenson's collection of haiku and senryu for teens, Casting Out Nines is just out from Ekstasis Editions in Victoria, B.C.
Christina Murphy's story "Light as a Feather" appeared in Used Furniture Review on August 30, 2011. -
on September 4, 2011
Joanne Merriam
Posted project update #3New writing by 140 And Counting contributors
Post CommentGwendolyn Joyce Mintz had a very short story appear in Camroc Press Review last week.
Dawn Corrigan has a short story just posted at Unlikely 2.0.
Berit Ellingsen's novel The Empty City (available as an ebook here) will be available in print very soon.
Jonathan Pinnock is spending the month of September on a blog tour to promote his forthcoming Mrs Darcy versus the Aliens. He's already appeared at Salt Publishing's excellent blog and If Shakespeare.... He's also just had a short story appear in The View From Here.
Christina Murphy's story "Light as a Feather" appeared in Used Furniture Review on August 30, 2011.
And finally, Julie Bloss Kelsey has a piece on green living for Labor Day at GermantownPatch.
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on August 26, 2011
Joanne Merriam
Posted project update #2Contributors List
Post CommentThe 140 And Counting contributors list has been posted!
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on August 21, 2011
Joanne Merriam
Posted project update #1Over and above the $300 goal.
Post CommentI'm starting to think my initial request was too modest! Thanks so much to everybody who has pledged so far... and everybody who is thinking about pledging now. The $300 goal is the barebones of what I need to make the project work. It's looking pretty good for exceeding that goal - given that we already have $255 pledged at day 2, with 25 days to go! - so I wanted to post and let you all know in more detail what extra money can do for the project.
The main thing is it would help me promote the book to a wider audience. I can buy advertising on places like Facebook, Goodreads, Kindle Nation and Project Wonderful, and I can get business-card-stock-sized ads printed about the book for my writers to pass out at readings and the like. The business cards probably wouldn't cost much - $10 to $20 at local print shops, according to my research - but ads on websites can cost pretty much as much money as you're willing to spend. For example, a month of targeted advertising on Goodreads at $5/day would run $150.
I also hope people will continue to pledge because they like the rewards! I think the $10 pledge is an especially good deal for readers who love poetry, as the three books they will receive would have cost them around $14 plus taxes.
I'm very excited about this project, and really grateful to this community for making it possible.
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on August 21, 2011
Joanne Merriam
commented on a projectI just want to say I am bowled over by the response! I was expecting a much quieter beginning. Thanks so much to everybody who has pledged.
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on August 19, 2011
Joanne Merriam launched a project
140 And Counting - an anthology of twitter literature by Joanne Merriam
141 clever little pieces of literature by 121 authors in 1 exquisite ebook.
- $300 funding goal
- 09/16/2011 Funding Ended
Joanne Merriam
Nashville, TN
Joanne Merriam edits Seven by Twenty and Upper Rubber Boot Books. Her writing has been in dozens of journals, including Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Fiddlehead, The Mainichi Daily News, Per Contra and Strange Horizons. She lives in Nashville with her husband, three angry rabbits and one happy one.
