Save the Dragons...

[seawasp]

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!

Comments

[denelian.livejournal.com]

did i just get a comment from Dave Freer?!!?!? directed at me!!!!? *swoon!*


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...*

[davefreer.livejournal.com]

pthttt. I shall get a bigger head. And then I will no longer be able to get in to the house even through the double doors and B will be forced to cover me with a tarpaulin when it rains to stop the rust. Stick to a paragrapher... I live in trepidation of sentencers as the Australians were really worried about criminal records. How times change. Take care and enjoy the read. If you can cope with pTerry (I bow in deep respect) you can cope with me easily.

[denelian.livejournal.com]

*laughing*

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!

[ldsman.livejournal.com]

Australia? (pout) How am I expected to get a book signed if you are all the way over there?

[seawasp]

Send the book to him (with a SASE, of course). I've had quite a few people mail me copies of Digital Knight for a signature. It is a bit odd in some ways, of course, since that can mean you're spending more on postage than you did on the book.