{"id":382,"date":"2016-03-30T13:09:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/aurum-we-need-your-backing\/"},"modified":"2016-03-30T13:09:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:09:45","slug":"aurum-we-need-your-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/aurum-we-need-your-backing\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurum: we need your backing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/photo-original.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" style=\"float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/photo-original.JPG 1024w, https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/photo-original-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ticonderogapublications.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/photo-original-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>We&#8217;ve set up a kickstarter to partly fund Aurum: a golden anthology of novellas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aurum <\/em>is an anthology of awesome speculative novellas by some of Australia&#8217;s brightest talents. At this point we have locked in <strong>Joanne Anderton<\/strong>, <strong>Stephanie Gunn<\/strong>, <strong>Angela Rega<\/strong>, <strong>Lucy Sussex<\/strong>, and <strong>Susan Wardle<\/strong>, and expect to have at least a couple more awesome names before we go to print.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 APRIL EDIT:<\/strong> We are chuffed to be able to add <strong>Juliet Marillier<\/strong> to this star-studded line-up!<\/p>\n<p><em>Aurum <\/em>will be approximately 90,000 words of exceptional original fiction, all novellas (more than 7500 words) giving the writers space to develop stories and write at a length not always considered commercially acceptable. We&#8217;re giving the writers an opportunity to tell the stories they want to tell, and the space they want to tell them in.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aurum <\/em>will be edited by the A. Bertram Chandler Award-winning editor Russell B. Farr.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aurum <\/em>also celebrates the 20th year in publishing for Ticonderoga. We started way back in 1996, and since then have produced over 50 titles. <em>Aurum <\/em>was originally planned as our 50th title (hence the name) but a few other books came through and pushed it back a little. Numbers aside, Aurum will still be our golden book.<\/p>\n<p>Please check this out and back us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/499651181\/aurum-a-golden-anthology-of-original-novellas\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/499651181\/aurum-a-golden-anthology-of-original-novellas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve set up a kickstarter to partly fund Aurum: a golden anthology of novellas. Aurum is an anthology of awesome speculative novellas by some of Australia&#8217;s brightest talents. 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