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Save the Dragons...
Baen author Dave Freer has a problem. For various reasons he has decided to emigrate from South Africa to Australia (Tasmania, to be precise). He planned ahead and saved money for this trip. However...
Exchange rates have shifted drastically in the interim, and what would have been adequate for his entire household will now cover only the HUMAN members of his family. He only has about half the money needed to bring his pets with him (which is a necessity and an obligation for any good pet owner) because of rather extreme import issues for bringing animals into Australia (customs, quarantine, etc.).
He's asking for money -- but not for completely nothing. He's posting a story a chapter at a time -- as he gets money, more chapters go up.
So if you want to help in this worthy cause, go here and give whatever you can.
Thanks. This has been a public service message!
Exchange rates have shifted drastically in the interim, and what would have been adequate for his entire household will now cover only the HUMAN members of his family. He only has about half the money needed to bring his pets with him (which is a necessity and an obligation for any good pet owner) because of rather extreme import issues for bringing animals into Australia (customs, quarantine, etc.).
He's asking for money -- but not for completely nothing. He's posting a story a chapter at a time -- as he gets money, more chapters go up.
So if you want to help in this worthy cause, go here and give whatever you can.
Thanks. This has been a public service message!
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what i am going to do is kick the friends i know who also heart Dave Freer, and make *them* go donate. probably won't be as much (i know so many gamers, so few of whom read. sigh) but it's something. you are right - it's probably going to be a good think if it is over by the 20th. i will send GoodThoughts.
my friend, who found the book - i asked him last night. he has known about the surgery for a few months, and he started looking for DK at the end of July. he swears he only paid $15 for it, from a specialty story in Washington, and the shipping was book rate. so he got it *cheap*, and he says he got a discount because he's a teacher.
sorry for babbling - last night was my last night on duladid :)
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bests for for a good recovery
Dave
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Oh, wait, it IS about you. :)
Yeah, as I told her, we'd rather she save her money, recover, and THEN blow all her money on our stuff. For years.:)
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since very little came out in January, i bought my first new pair of jeans in over 8 years - because, given the choice between a pair of jeans or a book, the books wins, every time :)
and i do mostly leave you guys alone, so that you can like, write, and everything... because if i bug you too much, i eat up your writing time...
andway, night meds kicking in... thanx again Ryk :) you also rick!
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ok. i promise i shall not personally donate any of my money until i get paid again, on the 20th. and that i will have my friends do it instead, and have of them get those chapters - because i *am* healed enough to laugh now (i read about 10 Discworld books, so i'm 99.99% sure!) so, now that i have been Firmly Spoken Too, by the man himself, i shall mosey over to the site (because when i said "ALEX! Dave Freer, writing for donations, go now!" he said "yes! NOW! where?" and i was like "um... go to my LJ, look thru my friends list, find seawasp, go thru his posts, and it's there within the last week. going myself, so i can bookmark and then share, all around better. i just have zero willpower when it comes to good stories - but you Spoke, so i shall listen :) and make Alex, and several others, pay!)
*dude, Ryk - did you see how DAVE FREER talked to me? i mean, yeah, he talks to you, YOU are a novelist - i'm just a sentencer. maybe a paragrapher on a good day...*
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i wrote a "Tall Tale" for a class once, about a man who had a "swelled head, because he was so swell". so, yeah :) isn't that why editors are there? to prick you so you un-swell? lol puns are always fun. thank you!
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