UPDATE 5
We are 95% funded! We can now announce stretch goals. If we reach $9,000
we will feature 7 illustrations in the book (maybe more!), all by talented women
artists. So keep swimming team squid!
UPDATE 4
New reward! Angela Slatter is offering signed copies of her two short-story collections plus a short story critique. Pledge $100 for the Australian Squid and get this reward.
UPDATE 3
Supper of the Damned! Have dinner with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and a bunch of crazy Lovecraftian writers during the HPL Film Fest or World Horror (either event works for us). Plus, you get a random package of IFP goodies (Future Lovecraft, Innsmouth Magazine 14, perhaps an enchanted donut, etc) delivered to you during this supper of the damned! Being with the cool kids was never easier. Coolness not guaranteed.
UPDATE 2
New reward! Canadian artist Kaden Harris has donated an electric kalimba! The handmade 6 note electric kalimba, made of oiled walnut with cymbal
bronze tines, makes a lovely present for music lovers. Here's a picture of one of Kaden's kalimbas.
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UPDATE 1
Photo
of an ukulele hand-crafted by Karina Melendez. Our Deluxe reward
includes your own CUSTOM ukulele. You pick the colours and work with
Karina to get a strange and bizarre musical instrument.
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Lovecraft! Women! Squids! Writers take on the challenge of an
aeon. Gemma Files. Angela Slatter. Ann. K Schwader.They gather to prove
that chicks dig Cthulhu.
Of Squids and Women
Do girls just not like to play with
squids? That's the question an editor asked on Facebook. What followed
was a long discussion on Lovecraftian fiction and women. And the need
for an answer.
The answer: Women do write Lovecraftian fiction. We
aim to prove it with your support. More than a dozen female authors have gathered to
write original Lovecraftiana and place it in a single volume under the
title She Walks In Shadows. Some of the writers who have accepted the
challenge are:
- Laura Blackwell writing Mrs. Herrero ("Cool Air")
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Nadia Bulkin writing Nabby Gardner (“The Colour Out of Space”)
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S.J. Chambers to tackle Eunice Babson (“The Thing On The Doorstep”)
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Carrie Cuinn writing Anna Tilton (“The Shadow Over Innsmouth”)
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Arinn Dembo writing the Ape Princess (“Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family”
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Gemma Files writing Marceline (“Medusa’s Coil”)
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Nelly Geraldine Garcia-Rosas writing T’la-yub (“The Mound”)
- Lyndsey Holder writing Keziah Mason (“Dreams in the Witch House”)
- Sharon
Mock writing Shub-Niggurath (of many, many stories).
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Ann. K Schwader contributing poetry (Ammutseba, original Mythos entity)
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Angela Slatter writing Lavinia Whateley (“The Dunwich Horror”)
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Benjanun Sriduangkaew writing Pth'thya-l'yi or Shub-Niggurath
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Molly Tanzer writing Asenath ("The Thing on the Doorstep")
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E. Catherine Tobler writing Lady Margaret Trevor (“The Rats in Walls”)
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Wendy Wagner writing Nitocris (“The Outsider” and “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs”.)
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Cynthia Ward writing Mother Hydra (“Dagon” and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”)
We seek to pay 6 cents a word to contributors. All funds go
towards that goal. If we publish 80,000 words of fiction we'd need
$4,800 to pay everyone. And there are other production costs: mailing
prizes, design, etc.We can't do it without you.
What We Need & What You Get
Our #teamsquid mascot is provided courtesy of Lisa Grabenstetter and
will appear on our buttons! Yes, buttons.
Pledge $50 or more and get a
lovely squid t-shirt, too.
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Pledge $50 or more and you get a one-year subscription of the
magazine
The Dark, courtesy of Sean Wallace and Jack Fisher from Prime Books (plus
issues 1-3!).
Go Giant Squid and get the anthology in *hardcover.*
But that is not all! Writers, artists and editors are offering several packaged goodies for your consumption, including:
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When?
This anthology will be produced by Innsmouth Free Press, maker of
bizarre books, and delivered in the fall of 2015. Help us kickstart the
squid revolution!
Who?
The squid editors:
Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a writer and editor of many bizarre things. Dead North, the Canadian zombie anthology, was her latest project. Her debut collection This Strange Way of Dying was released in 2013. Her debut novel Signal to Noise will be released by Solaris in 2015. She blogs at http://silviamoreno-garcia.com/blog/
Paula R. Stiles is a random citizen of the world who has sold SF, fantasy and horror to Strange Horizons and Writers of the Future, among others. She also has published a cowritten mystery/SF novel, Fraterfamilias and a non-fiction book of medieval history, Templar Convivencia: Templars and Their Associates in 12th and 13th Century Iberia. She is the author of the urban fantasy novel The Mighty Quinn. You can find her at: http://thesnowleopard.net.
The squid artist: Lisa Grabenstetter
A
Washington DC native with a degree in traditional printmaking, Lisa is
also know for weird art and a slightly unsettling fixation on books,
monsters, and birds. To learn more, see http://magneticcrow.com
FAQ
I want to write a story for you! Can I?Although we have several authors who have accepted the challenge and we hope they will all deliver squidly stories, we'll have an open reading period. Wait for it.
I want to draw something for you!We'll be happy to look at portfolios if the book gets funded. :)
Who's behind this?Silvia Moreno-Garcia, publisher of Innsmouth Free Press, is organizing this IndieGoGo.
