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Fundraising Auction for Terri Windling
Nov. 28th, 2011 01:26 pmNote: I can't post to LJ right now, apparently because it's suffering another DDOS attack. I'll duplicate this entry there when I can. In the meantime, I know many of my LJ friends are here on Dreamwidth, and I wanted to get the word out.
Without Terri Windling, I never would have written Tam Lin. She bought all three volumes of the Secret Country trilogy and edited the first two, corralling my still flailing creativity as, probably, nobody else could have done. When she started the Fairy Tale Line, I wanted to be part of it. I have to confess that, though I read a number of them over and over as a child, I don't really like fairy tales. But Terri let me adapt a ballad instead. The rough draft of Tam Lin was much more like a book than my earlier efforts, but she was still instrumental in giving it many of the virtues that it has. She is a relentless and yet kindly editor, a rare combination and maybe the only one that I could have managed to heed in my self-centered youth. She is many other things as well, but that is how I met her.
Lately she has fallen on hard times and needs help, as most people do at some point in their lives.
Hence, this auction:
http://magick4terri.livejournal.com/profile#cause.
I have donated a couple of hardcovers, one of Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary and one of The Dubious Hills, that I'll sign if the winning bidder wants me to, but I don't know when they will be up. It hardly matters, since there is a dazzling array of things already there. Go and look.
If you don't want any more books or beautiful objects, you can donate directly on the community's page. If you can't afford to buy or donate, boosting the signal is very useful and would be much appreciated.
Pamela
Without Terri Windling, I never would have written Tam Lin. She bought all three volumes of the Secret Country trilogy and edited the first two, corralling my still flailing creativity as, probably, nobody else could have done. When she started the Fairy Tale Line, I wanted to be part of it. I have to confess that, though I read a number of them over and over as a child, I don't really like fairy tales. But Terri let me adapt a ballad instead. The rough draft of Tam Lin was much more like a book than my earlier efforts, but she was still instrumental in giving it many of the virtues that it has. She is a relentless and yet kindly editor, a rare combination and maybe the only one that I could have managed to heed in my self-centered youth. She is many other things as well, but that is how I met her.
Lately she has fallen on hard times and needs help, as most people do at some point in their lives.
Hence, this auction:
http://magick4terri.livejournal.com/profile#cause.
I have donated a couple of hardcovers, one of Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary and one of The Dubious Hills, that I'll sign if the winning bidder wants me to, but I don't know when they will be up. It hardly matters, since there is a dazzling array of things already there. Go and look.
If you don't want any more books or beautiful objects, you can donate directly on the community's page. If you can't afford to buy or donate, boosting the signal is very useful and would be much appreciated.
Pamela
