An appeal on behalf of Caitlin R. Kiernan
To go off-topic to a friend of Doc's, I hope people in this communite can help support someone worth supporting.
Caitlin R. Kiernan, who inhabits LJ World as greygirlbeast, has gone public with a major health issue: she has PNES, or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. This makes it hard for her to work. She is a freelance novelist with no health insurance (as is true for most freelance novelists). She needs medical attention to get better, and again, no insurance, so: Money. Will. Help. You can:
* Donate to her PayPal tip jar, much like Doc's Cat Fund.
* Participate in her eBay auctions.
* Subscribe to her monthly short-erotica mailing, Sirenia Digest.
* Buy her books: new editions of Silk (1998), Threshold (2001, and who none other than Guillermo Del Toro considered making into a film), Low Red Moon (2003, and one of my personal favorites of hers), and Daughter of Hounds (2007). Or pre-order (as I have) her ultimate, finally-exactly-the-way-she-wants-it edition of her short story collection Tales of Pain and Wonder.
* Buy dolls and such from Kathryn "Spooky" Pollnac, her partner (humglum on LJ), via Spooky's Etsy page. She's a piece of work and a worthy person in her own right. (Ooh, here's an example of her doll work; that one's been sold.)
* Buy a T-shirt for a band that doesn't exist! For Silk Caitlin invented the band Stiff Kitten, and one result was that smile-causing shirt (designed by Spooky and the Ziraxia people). The distributor, especially for this situation, has upped the commission Caitlin gets for each shirt sold.
Caitlin is vouched for by people like Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Poppy Z. Brite, and Christa Faust; talented people who appreciate her and her talent. I've given Caitlin's work to people as gifts ( like this time, when I gave two of her books to Colin Meloy of the band The Decemberists). Her writing is a gift. So's she.
I'll add here that post-K, Caitlin helped coordinate the delivery of Care packages to Doc in Mississippi. She's stepped up to help others before. As a fan and an acquaintance of Caitlin's, I want her to get better and I'm stepping up for her.
If you can't spare funds, I understand. Thoughts will help, too, as will spreading this message. ( Here's a link to a similar appeal written by her friend sovay.)
Peace,
Chris Walsh
3:05 p.m. (2/9/08) edit: As Caitlin mentions in her latest entry, donations have been generous enough that she plans for today (9 Feb) to be the last that she directly accepts PayPal donations, at least for now. She wishes not to "overtax" people's generosity.
Caitlin R. Kiernan, who inhabits LJ World as greygirlbeast, has gone public with a major health issue: she has PNES, or psychogenic non-epileptic seizures. This makes it hard for her to work. She is a freelance novelist with no health insurance (as is true for most freelance novelists). She needs medical attention to get better, and again, no insurance, so: Money. Will. Help. You can:
* Donate to her PayPal tip jar, much like Doc's Cat Fund.
* Participate in her eBay auctions.
* Subscribe to her monthly short-erotica mailing, Sirenia Digest.
* Buy her books: new editions of Silk (1998), Threshold (2001, and who none other than Guillermo Del Toro considered making into a film), Low Red Moon (2003, and one of my personal favorites of hers), and Daughter of Hounds (2007). Or pre-order (as I have) her ultimate, finally-exactly-the-way-she-wants-it edition of her short story collection Tales of Pain and Wonder.
* Buy dolls and such from Kathryn "Spooky" Pollnac, her partner (humglum on LJ), via Spooky's Etsy page. She's a piece of work and a worthy person in her own right. (Ooh, here's an example of her doll work; that one's been sold.)
* Buy a T-shirt for a band that doesn't exist! For Silk Caitlin invented the band Stiff Kitten, and one result was that smile-causing shirt (designed by Spooky and the Ziraxia people). The distributor, especially for this situation, has upped the commission Caitlin gets for each shirt sold.
Caitlin is vouched for by people like Neil Gaiman, Harlan Ellison, Poppy Z. Brite, and Christa Faust; talented people who appreciate her and her talent. I've given Caitlin's work to people as gifts ( like this time, when I gave two of her books to Colin Meloy of the band The Decemberists). Her writing is a gift. So's she.
I'll add here that post-K, Caitlin helped coordinate the delivery of Care packages to Doc in Mississippi. She's stepped up to help others before. As a fan and an acquaintance of Caitlin's, I want her to get better and I'm stepping up for her.
If you can't spare funds, I understand. Thoughts will help, too, as will spreading this message. ( Here's a link to a similar appeal written by her friend sovay.)
Peace,
Chris Walsh
3:05 p.m. (2/9/08) edit: As Caitlin mentions in her latest entry, donations have been generous enough that she plans for today (9 Feb) to be the last that she directly accepts PayPal donations, at least for now. She wishes not to "overtax" people's generosity.