Defying Doomsday Round-up

April is drawing to a close and so is our Pozible campaign. It's your last chance to pre-order Defying Doomsday — especially if you want a limited edition hard cover — and after 7 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time it will officially be too late. We have made our goal but we are still collecting funds towards our audiobook stretch goal. Fingers crossed there.

Meanwhile, Holly and I wrote a lot of blog posts that went live during the campaign. In case you missed a few, here is a list:

• I talked about The Inspiration Behind “Defying Doomsday” at Diversity in YA
• Holly talked about Realism and Disability in the Apocalypse at Adventures of a Bookonaut
• Holly and I were interviewed by SC Flynn
• I asked What Kind of Apocalypse Would You Survive? at Speculating on SpecFic
• I talked about Disabled and Chronically Ill Characters in Speculative Fiction at SF Signal
• Holly wrote some Tips for Writing Disabled Characters at Ebon Shores
• Holly talked about Apocalypse Fiction at DiversifYA
• I talked about different apocalypse possibilities at Dark Wolf Fantasy
• Holly and I were interviewed by Marisa Wikramanayake
• I was interviewed on the podcast Galactic Chat (my first live(ish) podcast appearance!)
• Holly talked about The Myths of Disability in Life and Fiction at Stephanie Gunn’s blog
• I talked about why we chose the apocalypse theme at A Fantastical Librarian
• I shared her superpower at Skiffy and Fanty
• Holly talked about Defying Doomsday at the Australian Women Writers Challenge blog

On the actual Defying Doomsday blog, we also teased and announced some of the authors we already have lined up. Here is a little bit about each of them:

• John Chu
• Corinne Duyvis
• Janet Edwards
• Seanan McGuire

If you want to be one of our authors, we are going to be open to submissions in May and June and you can see our submission guidelines here.

We were also very excited to announce that Robert Hoge will be writing our introduction!

Finally, a couple of other people wrote nice things about Defying Doomsday:

• Tansy Rayner Roberts wrote about why she’s excited for Defying Doomsday
• John Chu wrote about stories that feature characters who don’t normally get the spotlight 

And if you want an ongoing supply of disability and/or chronic illness etc related content, you might consider following (or intermittently checking) our Tumblr.

The campaign link again, if you want to get a last minute pledge in, is: http://www.pozible.com/project/188146

Thank-you to everyone who's already backed and everyone that helped us spread the word! You are all awesome!