February Update -- the Book So Far!
about 6 years ago
– Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:01:34 PM
Hi all
You haven't heard much of us in recent months because we've been busy putting a beautiful book together, but now we're on the home stretch.
This is super important: you'll receive a Backerkit email shortly. It's from us. Please fill in the contact survey as quickly as you can, to help us manage our rewards delivery.
Rivqa & Tansy have been editing, juggling, proofing and generally book-building. We're delighted with the balance of stories from our open reading period as well as our tentpole authors and we're sending the manuscript to layout by the end of the month. YES IT'S THAT SOON.
In the mean time, we've also been working on rewards. Our publisher Alisa moved from WA to Canberra, knitting toy robots the whole time! Tansy's house is now full of delicious robot tea, bookmarks, enamel pins and the like.
Rivqa & Tansy actually managed to meet in person over the summer, and assembled our top tier robot reward with the help of our surprisingly compatible children.
You'll be getting lots more updates over the next few months, as well as actual reward delivery. We're hoping to have everything out to you all by May... and while the paperback won't officially be released to the public for sale until September, there are two book launch parties that you are welcome to attend... one at Continuum (Melbourne fan convention) in June and one at FREAKING WISCON in May. Stay tuned, robot friends!
Much love, and thanks for your support. We couldn't have made it this far without you.
Rivqa, Tansy & the TPP team.
Open Call Author Acquisitions!
over 6 years ago
– Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 06:47:48 PM
In addition to the pieces already commissioned from our fabulous tentpole authors, we are thrilled to announce our new acquisitions from the open call submissions. In alphabetical order by story title, they are:
- “Arguing with People on the Internet” - E.H. Mann
- “A Robot Like Me” - Lee Cope
- “Junkyard Kraken” - D.K. Mok
- “Knitting Day” - Jen White
- “New Berth” - Elizabeth Fitzgerald
- “Rini's God” - Soumya Sundar Mukherjee
- “Sugar Ricochets to Other Forms” - Octavia Cade
- “The Ghost Helmet” - Lev Mirov
- “The Goose Hair of One Thousand Miles” - Stephanie Lai
- “Tide Falling, Falling Tide” - Meryl Stenhouse
We can’t wait to share them with you, and we're excited to be working with these authors. So many great stories were submitted to our book, and we were sad we couldn't accept all the ones we loved -- many of which we expect to see popping up in other publications because they were so good.
We'll be releasing a full Table of Contents before the end of the year, including story titles from our tentpole authors and a proper running order, but Rivqa & Tansy are leaving for Genrecon today and wanted to give you this exciting news update on the project.
It's all happening, you guys. We're making a book!
Frankentastic! The Saga Begins
over 6 years ago
– Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 09:44:14 AM
Remember our cool $21K stretch goal? How Tansy pledged to read a podcast version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, switching the genders around?
Well, it's here! Every fortnight you will be able to tune in for a new instalment of regendered SFF classic. This first episode introduces you to the excitable, friend-starved Roberta, the dour, doomy Victoria, and their jolly icecapade adventures.
You can stream or download the first episode now. We should have it up on iTunes soon-ish but it can take a while for them to absorb a new podcast.
https://twelfthplanetpress.podbean.com/e/frankentastic-episode-1/
Backer-exclusive preview: Ambelin's essay
over 6 years ago
– Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 02:34:01 PM
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Mother of Invention: the Logo!
over 6 years ago
– Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:54:04 PM
We’ve reached an exciting point here at Robot HQ: our call for submissions is now closed. We’ve received over 200 submissions, and we can’t wait to read them. We really appreciate how excited and inspired you all were by our awesome anthology pitch.
September is a big month for our Mother of Invention crew: not only do we have a lot of reading to do, but we have a couple of tantalising early rewards coming your way: the first of our Artificial Intelligence essays, and the launch of the Frankentastic podcast. More news on these soon.
While Robot HQ was being flooded by amazing fiction, we also found time to commission the wonderful Tania Walker to design our Mother of Invention logo. We’re beyond chuffed with the result. You’ll see the logo on our Robocup mugs, our tote bags, and other merchandise, so we hope you like it as much as we do.
(drum roll please)
I know, right? (note to selves, give Terri maximum notice to figure out how to put that egg icon on launch party cupcakes)
Over the coming few months, we’ll be working on designing & creating backer rewards, reading submissions, commissioning beautiful cover art, editing stories and generally gearing up make a book. We’ll be in touch now and then over the next year, to let you know when we have something exciting up our sleeve.
Cheers,
Tansy & Rivqa
