{"id":21862,"date":"2016-05-23T08:50:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2016-05-23T08:50:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:50:12","slug":"butt-my-butt-update-guest-post-on-ann-leckies-blog-new-rewards-from-alexandra-erin-will-alexander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21862","title":{"rendered":"Butt My Butt Update: Guest Post on Ann Leckie&rsquo;s Blog, New Rewards from Alexandra Erin &amp; Will Alexander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Leckie was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.annleckie.com%2F2016%2F05%2F23%2Fguest-post-rachel-swirsky-confounding-bullies-raising-money-lgbtq-healthcare%2F&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNHPnlsOTCqr6L93EL5F8-jm429Y3w\">kind enough to let me borrow her blog<\/a> to chat about ignoring bullies &#8212; how it didn&#8217;t work in elementary school, and continues not to work now.<\/p>\n<p>My Making Lemons into Jokes campaign (details here) to retaliate against harassment by raising money for LGBTQ healthcare is doing great! We&#8217;re really close to the $600 stretch goal. Speaking of which, I have an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>At\u00a0$600, several other authors and I are going to write a round robin short story about dinosaurs. I&#8217;m excited to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandraerin.com\/\">Alexandra Erin<\/a> is joining us! So, the current author list is: me, Brooke Bolander, John Chu, Adam-Troy Castro, Alexandra Erin, Ann Leckie, Ken Liu, Juliette Wade, and Alyssa Wong!<\/p>\n<p>And another announcement &#8212; at $700, Mary Robinette Kowal will record the audio book of &#8220;If You Were a Butt, My Butt.&#8221; AND now National Book Award winner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willalex.net\/\">Will Alexander<\/a> will also record, &#8220;If You Were a Cuttlefish, My Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve previously announced, graphic novelist Barry Deutsch will create an original piece of cover art at $800, and I have something in the works for $900, too&#8230; announcement to come&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Butt-my-Butt-Rectangle-500.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1500\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1500 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Butt-my-Butt-Rectangle-500.png?resize=300%2C150\" alt=\"Butt my Butt Rectangle 500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Butt-my-Butt-Rectangle-500.png?resize=300%2C150 300w, http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Butt-my-Butt-Rectangle-500.png?w=500 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Leckie was kind enough to let me borrow her blog to chat about ignoring bullies &mdash; how it didn&rsquo;t work in elementary school, and continues not to work now. My Making Lemons into Jokes campaign (details here) to retaliate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2016\/05\/butt-my-butt-update-guest-post-on-ann-leckies-blog-new-rewards-from-alexandra-erin-will-alexander\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-lemons-into-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21863,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21862\/revisions\/21863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}