Hi Vinay: I have recently self published a book of articles I've written called William's Ecopedia. https://www.createspace.com/3470913
I would be honored to submit a piece for consideration in your book. Could you please give me a little more guidance as to what it is you're looking for in a submission? On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey folks, second shout for "The Future We Deserve", my book project. If > anybody has the time to write a piece, they're 500 words, and the deadline > is about a month (hard deadline is 1OCT). We're also looking for the last > five hundred bucks on the Kickstarter if anybody is feeling generous! > > Thank you so much, > > Vinay > > ===== > > Hello, everybody! This is an update for the authors and supporters of The > Future We Deserve. > > The book is going very well. > > We’ve got 70% – $1400 – of the $2000 we need to do the book. We need to > raise $600 in two weeks to liberate the $1400 already donated, so please > encourage people to help us! > We have 71 authors signed up, some doing more than one piece. We could use a > fair number of additional authors, but I’m sure people will keep showing up! > About 1/4 of the material is in, 26 pieces so far and the pieces are > inspiring and powerful. > > The “first deadline” is September 15th – a month from now – and October 1st > is the hard deadline for the book. > > So please get writing, and I’ll be sending out periodic reminders. If you > can, please get your material in early so that we can really get the > conversations about the book going as the process unfolds. 26 pieces so far > is a great start, but it would be great to have half the book in place by > the end of this month! > > The blogathon is going a little slowly: > > Vinay Gupta on Julia Macintosh’s A Future Without Childhood > Antonio Dias on James Hester‘s Of Arms and the Man > Cat Lupton on Antonio Dias‘ On The Future We Deserve… > > So if you have time time, please pick a piece from the pieces submitted so > far, run it on your blog, and add your thoughts on the piece. It’s a really > good way to showcase the book and the ideas in it. I hope you will find the > time! > > We’re well on track, well done, and thank you for all of your help! > > -- > Vinay Gupta > Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest > > http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering > http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision > > "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an > invincible summer" - Albert Camus > > Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt > UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
