{"id":375,"date":"2016-02-11T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/the-year-s-best-kickstarter\/"},"modified":"2016-02-11T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:03:29","slug":"the-year-s-best-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/the-year-s-best-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year&#8217;s Best Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve set up a kickstarter project.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/499651181\/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/499651181\/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We need your help to become the first Australian-focussed year&#8217;s best speculative fiction anthology series to publish 6 consecutive volumes.<\/p>\n<h3>The Project<\/h3>\n<p><em>The Year&rsquo;s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror<\/em> is over 150,000 words of the best fantasy and horror fiction written by Australians (and New Zealanders) and published all over the world in 2015. We&#8217;ve already done this five times for the years 2010-2014, and we&#8217;d like to do it again.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the reprinted fiction, <em>The Year&#8217;s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror<\/em> series features an extensive introductory essay on the annual state of the genre, obituaries, a recommended reading list, and a list of Australian and New Zealand award recipients.<\/p>\n<p>It is the only volume of its kind being published in Australia at present.<\/p>\n<h3>How you help<\/h3>\n<p>Putting together a volume of this size, usually featuring the work of more than 30 contributors, is a big task for two editors and a small press.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Year&#8217;s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror <\/em>series is an important work, but it is also a considerable up-front cost: several thousand dollars of outgoings before a single cent comes back.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re doing this because we love Australian speculative fiction, we love books, and we want to keep doing this as long as we can. We&#8217;re in this for the long term, but could use some help to keep this title going.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider backing us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/499651181\/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/499651181\/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve set up a kickstarter project.&nbsp;https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/499651181\/the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror-6 We need your help to become the first Australian-focussed year&#8217;s best speculative fiction anthology series to publish 6 consecutive volumes. The Project The Year&rsquo;s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror is over 150,000 words of the best fantasy and horror fiction written by Australians (and New Zealanders) and published all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[616,669,124,146,182],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-616","tag-kickstarter","tag-liz-grzyb","tag-talie-helene","tag-the-years-best-australian-fantasy-and-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}