Anthology ~ I Do!
From: MLR Press
Seems that Erastes, Alex Beecroft, Lee Rowan, ZA Maxfield, Charlie Cochrane, Fiona Glass, Jeanne Barrack, P.A. Brown, Tracey Pennington, Clare London, Sharon Maria Bidwell, Lisabet Sarai, Storm Grant, Moondancer Drake, Marquesate, Mallory Path, Emma Collingwood, Allison Wonderland, Jerry L. Wheeler, Zoe Nichols & Cassidy Ryan AND MLR Press (Hope I mentioned everyone.) all got together to do a charity anthology for Gay Marriage Equality with all profits contributing to the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.
Good stuffs!
Elisa Rolle god bless her got in there quick and did a review.
I notice that John Morgan Wilson over at Lambda Literary Foundation gave them all a mention which is sorta like the RWA noticing Samhain or The Flat Earth Society noticing NASA. Just read their guidelines for the Lambda Literary Awards… E-books are not eligible. Nasty eBooks! Ewwwwww! They have cooties!
It’s not that I have anything against these organizations being so limited and narrow minded and providing services ONLY to a select few authors meeting their simplistic backwards view of the world. I just have to wonder why any author with an eBook out there which is a group growing by leaps and bounds every day would even bother to join them or put up with the drool coming from their leaders mouths. Dead Tree books and authors had their 15 minutes. They are now a dead horse on a half price rack at Costco and we are beating them with a Kindle.
Tags: Anthology, Gay Romance, Lesbian Romance, MLR Press, TBR
Zoe Nichols wrote,
Hey Teddy, thanks for the mention! I think Lambda might have noticed the antho because it’s also going to be in print, around Jan 21st.
Which…I suppose doesn’t make their stand on eBooks that much better. Hm.
Thanks again and enjoy!
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 9:23 am
Charlie Cochrane wrote,
Thanks for the mention. Well done for listing everyone – it was a real team effort.
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 9:37 am
zamaxfield wrote,
Thanks for sharing this! Lambda Legal Fund is such a good cause and the book itself was a true labor of love.
You Rock T-Pig!!
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Jeanne Barrack wrote,
We forgive the Lambda folks. As for RWA….well, there’s a reason I didn’t renew my membership.
I was absolutely thrilled to be a part of this venture. Marriage is between two people. We’re all people…
Thanks for mentioning the Anthology!
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 10:02 am
P.A. Brown wrote,
We do not have cooties. Well, I don’t think I do. Let me get back to you on that. But we do have a paperback version of I Do! available through Barnes & Noble and Amazon.. And it’s cootie free!
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Alex Beecroft wrote,
Thanks for the plug! It is going to be out in print as well, so maybe that’s why the Lambda Literary people noticed it – or maybe it was just the similarity of name ;)
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 10:35 am
TeddyPig wrote,
You sure they don’t think you are giving them money?
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Louise van Hine wrote,
Ordered and downloaded. I think you have an excellent point, Teddy, but let’s be fair… a year ago hardly anyone had heard of the Amazon Kindle, and ebooks were not really all that well known. Long long ago, like the early 1990′s, I had predicted that electronic and computerized publishing was going to save the forests within 20 years. It’s about 15 years from when I first anticipated it, and I would not be at all surprised that dead trees are going to be safe from the publishing industry in a relatively short time. With demand, the credibility of e-publishing will increase, and it is increasing. But I do think that there are a lot of publishers, authors and others in the industry who are hanging on to their traditional model, in hopes that e-books will not make them obsolete. It’s a vain hope, in my opinion. The turnaround on writing, editing and releasing ebooks is whirlwind fast, and some of the biggest costs in publishing – production – are reduced to a pittance. It’s only a matter of time.
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 11:53 am
TeddyPig wrote,
I think if an organization is calling itself Lambda Literary Foundation and saying “Our mission is to celebrate LGBT literature” then it should be promoting gay subject writing in all forms of publishing. To act like eBooks are below their regard is simple minded snobbery. I get it right from what they wrote I don’t have to give them any leeway.
When I spend the entire web page of About Us reading nothing more than fluffy resume ego boos for each and every staff member and it says nothing about the organization or what that organization actually does it pretty much shows me what they find most important. Themselves.
It is nothing more than an awards foundation with not much else going for it if you ask me. I don’t even find them very useful to find bookstores.
The Gay Community was founded on the ideals of inclusion. Most Gay Literature came out of Pulp Fiction racks. What type of Gay Community are these people representing?
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Alex Beecroft wrote,
LOL! That may well be it :) Would you like a review copy of the ebook, btw? I have one here with your name on it.
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Thanks Alex, I went and bought a copy already. Support the cause and such.
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Alex Beecroft wrote,
Ah, sorry about getting in too late there! But thank you. I hope you enjoy it!
Link | January 17th, 2009 at 3:24 pm