Noooo, eat with your favorite author. 🙂
Lawrence M. Schoen is an author friend and colleague who published my novella Where the Devil Resides in his wonderful anthology series Alembical a few years back. He’s also a doctor of psychology and the author of a series of SF novels about anthropomorphic elephants, called Barsk. One would not expect novels about anthropomorphic critters to be as weighty and thoughtful as these, but they have things to say.
It’s been a rougher year for him than many, as he’s been fighting cancer.
He can also say “F*(# cancer!” in fluent Klingon.
I want to tell you about a cool project Lawrence is working on. For several years, he’s been running an interview series where authors get to talk about the most memorable meals they’ve ever had.
Now, he’s compiling those interviews into a charity book, and running a Kickstarter campaign to fund its publication
Eating Authors: 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Share Their Most Memorable Meals
Here’s an even cooler part. 100% of the profits from the book go to charity, half to fund cancer research and half to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Medical Fund, which helps authors with medical expenses (as we often can’t get or afford insurance).
Who’s involved? Here’s a partial list.
Carrie Vaughn • Dan Wells • Lauren Beukes • Daniel Abraham • Walter Jon Williams • Bud Sparhawk • Sheila Finch • Gregory Frost • Aliette de Bodard • Allen Steele • Mark W. Tiedemann • Myke Cole • Howard V. Hendrix • Karl Schroeder • Gail Carriger • Laura Anne Gilman • Alastair Reynolds • Tobias S. Buckell • Tina Connolly • David Walton • Charles E. Gannon • David Brin • Gregory Benford • Max Gladstone • Jonathan Maberry • Michael Swanwick • Faith Hunter • James L. Cambias • Harry Turtledove • Joe Haldeman • Daryl Gregory • Tom Doyle • Alethea Kontis • Michael A. Ventrella • Anna Kashina • Tim W. Burke • Sally Wiener Grotta • James Morrow • Sharon Lee • Alan Smale • Ferrett Steinmetz • Fran Wilde • L. E. Modesitt, Jr. • Daniel Polanski • Eric James Stone • Lawrence M. Schoen • Kevin Hearne • Fonda Lee • Jennifer Foehner Wells • Ada Palmer • Naomi Novik • Todd J. Mccaffrey • Marguerite Reed • Rick Wilber • Travis Heermann • Becky Chambers • Jacqueline Carey • Malka Older • Steven Barnes • Michael Johnston • Spencer Ellsworth • Nicky Drayden • Russell Davis • Tracy Townsend • Catherine Schaff-Stump • Jane Lindskold • Michael Anderle • Kate Heartfield • Craig Martelle • Peng Shepherd • Delilah S. Dawson • Derek Künsken • S. L. Saboviec • Martin L. Shoemaker • R. R. Virdi • E.M. Foner • Maurice Broaddus • Yudhanjaya Wijeratne • Chen Qiufan • Barry J. Hutchison • Wil McCarthy • Terry Mixon • Julia Huni • Gini Koch • Dave Walsh • John P. Murphy • James Alan Gardner • Steven H Silver • Darcie Little Badger • Robert J. Sawyer
Please click over to Kickstarter and consider funding this worthy effort.