Empowering Ghanaian Communities

My sister, the illustrious speculative fiction writer Therese Arkenberg, will be traveling to Ghana next month as part of an Economic Development service learning project. She and her classmates are seeking to raise funds for the community-led nonprofit group Capacity Rural International; this group distributes microloans to  Ghanaian women for the purchase of yield-increasing seeds and to Ghanaian students pursuing careers as carpenters and seamstresses. 

Please help Therese reach her funding goal by donating through the program's IndieGoGo campaign or through PayPal! Therese has made a short story available on her blog as an added incentive to donate.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

economic development, feminism, Ghana, help, short fiction, Therese Arkenberg

Story for Haiti - Panthanatos

In order to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti, Crossed Genres has come up with a brilliantly simple idea: have authors post free fiction online, and have readers show their appreciation by donating to any number of fine charities. Some suggestions, and a list of other participating authors, appear here.

When it comes to unpublished fiction, I unfortunately don't have any open at the moment (aside from a trunk story or two, and trust me, you do not want to read those). Please enjoy "Panthanatos," posted on my website. This story previously appeared in the 2008 anthology Ruins Metropolis.

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

fantasy, help, reading, recomendations

Don't make me open another magazine!

The last time I couldn't find a magazine in a given genre, I created one. For the sake of my sanity, save me from doing it again by helping me find a ghost story market!

When I say "ghost story," I mean it in the M. R. James sense, or the sense of Lovecraft - Cthulhu. With the closing of The Willows, is there a current market for weird fiction that isn't cosmic horror? Where would you send a story that has more in common with "Count Magnus" than "The Call of Cthulhu," or "The White People" than "The Haunter in the Dark"?

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

ghost story, help, publishing, weird fiction