Kickstarter

Dear backers and friends,

I hope you had a wonderful holiday, and that you all enjoyed the magazine!

Over the past week or so, we have prepared and sent the final kickstarter rewards, so now 100% of the rewards have been mailed. If you did not receive yours yet, not to worry, the last of the gifts should arrive within the next week.  I had to print some more totebags!  The process of packaging and mailing all your gifts has been humbling, given all the work it takes just to create a magazine. What's most enjoyable about sending out at all the totebags and posters is looking at the home addresses, places and people as far away as Japan and as close to a few blocks away from my home that have received a copy of Catamaran. It's a testament to the power of this relatable yet unique magazine for creativity. 

If you had a chance to finish your Catamaran magazine over the holiday season, we ask that you correspond and provide feedback to our inaugural issue. Having a critical conversation with our readers and subscribers is important as we move on to Issue 2.  We are busy designing the second issue right now!  It is filled with surprising new writing and art. Hard to believe another issue has already come together.  We are hoping, praying, to print Issue 2 very soon in early February.  If you loved the first issue, please consider subscribing to get the next issue!

We've designed a whole new look and feel to the website with our readers in mind.  You can go there to subscribe at www.catamaranliteraryreader.com and click on the subscribe/donate tab.  We'd love to have your support again to keep us going!  

A few things to check out in the meantime while you are waiting for the release of our second issue...

Catherine Segurson joins Catamaran contributing poet Brynn Saito on the Dennis Morton Poetry Hour, KUSP Radio 88.9 FM.  Listen to the archived show: http://blogs.kusp.org/poetryshow/2012/12/17/catamaran-is-launched/

Listen to the full 32 minute conversation between T.C. Boyle and Dan White in a video interview. Watch it here:  http://vimeo.com/48118355

Catamaran editors give a panel discussion on storytelling at the Tannery Arts Center.  Watch the live video here:  http://www.livestream.com/tannerylectureseries/video?clipId=pla_c73b923b-9d52-429b-a8fb-913b5c720367

The 3 minute Catamaran printing highlight reel created by Scott Cervine's Movies from the Heart: http://vimeo.com/52612883

Dear Catamaran patrons,

Thanks again for all your support!  The printing of the inaugural issue of Catamaran would not have been possible without your generous donations.  I hope you enjoy reading the magazine, and sharing in our maiden voyage.   Your tote bags and broadsides will set sail in the next day or two and should arrive shortly.  

I wanted to share the amazing world of print with you so I created a video while I was doing press checks at Publication Printers in Denver.  It is an amazing process, and it was because of you we were able to create these fine magazines.  Have fun watching and going behind the scenes with me.

If you want to share your feedback we would love to hear what you think of our first issue.  Feel free to leave a reply here on Kickstarter, or to go onto our Facebook page for Catamaran Literary Reader.  Spread the word!

Thanks again for joining the crew!

Catherine Segurson

We have an engaging interview for you all to listen to...something fun to enjoy while you wait for us to produce the first Issue of Catamaran Literary Reader.

We will be publishing the short story The Extinction Tales by celebrated author T.C. Boyle in the first issue, along with an interview with T.C. Boyle about the genesis of environmental themes in his fiction.  I've created a video with the full conversation between T.C. Boyle and our associate editor Dan White.  The 30 minute interview is available for you enjoy on our website and on Vimeo at this link:

https://vimeo.com/48118355

I want to thank Dan White here for his engaging discussion with T.C. Boyle for the benefit of Catamaran readers, and for his deep research into T.C.'s work (over 19 books) in preparation. Thanks to Dan for supporting our Kickstarter campaign and for promoting Catamaran to his circle of writers and students.  I hope you will enjoy hearing Dan's interview!

Catherine

...also special thank you to Zack Rogow the Catamaran poetry editor, and my professor in the MFA program at CCA, for helping to promote our campaign in the poetry circles, for being a constant support through the founding of this entire magazine project, and for all his advice on becoming a good editor.  When I first met him as a student in his world poetry class I never dreamed we would someday make a literary magazine together! 

Thank you to those of you who have jumped on the boat during the last few hours to help us fund the printing of Catamaran Literary Reader!  Thanks Tannery Arts Center, Bookshop Santa Cruz,Santa Cruz Writes,Poetry Santa Cruz,Good Times Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Weekly, Wallace J. Nichols, Scott Cervine, Ellen Bass, Vania Benevides, Allison DeLauer, Michelle Seidman, Michael Bardo, Angela Chesnut, Ceil Cirillo for giving us publicity and helping to spread the word. Thank you to the dedicated editors Rebecca Goldman, Elizabeth McKenzie, Tom Christensen, Candace Calsoyas, Brad Sharek, and Caroline Webster who promoted the campaign and supported our launch efforts by pledging.  Thanks to all of you who pledged and shared the link with your friends and created such momentum for our Catamaran Kickstarter campaign.  We couldn't have done it without you!  We are excited to be raising the sails and leaving shore to sail to a thousand unknown places...including your doorstep!  Look for your inaugural issue and lovingly crafted goodies in October.  Welcome on board new Catamaran crew members, shipmates, and mariners!  Success!

Catherine Segurson