[Doctorow-L] A new Little Brother short story collection
Cory Doctorow
doctorow at craphound.com
Tue Sep 15 13:28:23 EDT 2020
When I launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund pre-orders for the
audiobook of Attack Surface (the third Little Brother book), I threw in
a couple of *really* big-ticket rewards, more or less on a lark.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/attack-surface-audiobook-for-the-third-little-brother-book/
For $10K, you could commission a Little Brother story: I'd write a story
based on an mutually agreed-upon prompt and try to sell it, and make
sure your name was mentioned in any eventual sale.
I set up two of these thinking they'd never sell.
They sold in three days.
As I blocked out time in my diary to write two more Little Brother
stories - hardly an unpleasant chore! - I realized between these stories
and the two uncollected Little Brother stories (Lawful Interception and
the forthcoming Force Multiplier), I nearly had *another* book.
So I emailed my agent and said, "Hey, look, if three more people
commission stories and I write 'em and sell 'em to magazines and
whatnot, do you think someone would publish the whole thing as a
collection?"
And he was like: "*duh*."
So here we are! I've just made three more commissions available on the
Kickstarter. If you've got $10K and want to help birth another Little
Brother book - a short story collection, title to be determined, this is
your chance!
And if you don't want to spend $10K (which, you know, *fair enough*),
your $15 pre-order of the Attack Surface audiobook and/or $14 ebook (or
$25 bundle) will make a gigantic difference, not just to me, but to
competition and authorship:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/13/theory-of-change/#avalanche
Also, if you're already a backer, I've got some errata for you: last
night I told how to get the free audiobook and ebook of Force
Multiplier, but I screwed up.
Here's the correct info:
If you're in the UK, Aud, NZ, SA India or another English-speaking
country (but NOT US or Canada) here's the form for the bonus story:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBcoOM3m3fCwipXRcexWuBD4nZMIF13r2StmSnpT5amD4Icg/viewform
And if you're in any non-English-speaking country, email your receipt to:
TorAdvertising at tor.com
*Sorry!*
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