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Reposi en la suno

I have a weakness for napping in the sun. A couple of years ago, Rob and I discovered the joys of Incubus, starring William Shatner, which is the only feature length film made entirely in Esperanto. The cinematographer was Conrad Hall (American Beauty) so it’s beautifully shot, but still… Esperanto. The point of this is […]

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How is the raffle going?

Well. Extremely well. In fact, I think I just impressed my mother who is a fund-raising goddess. I tallied what has come in so far and shared the numbers with Jason. As of this posting, the raffle has made $1828.00. Jason did not get the 200 subscriptions he was looking for, but your raffle ticket

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Icelandic is kicking my ass

The last two days have been dealing with cases. Nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. So here’s your Icelandic phrase for today. [audio:mybrainhurts.mp3] Heilinn minn meiðir. Translation: My brain hurts. See. Useful phrases like this aren’t in your standard guide book. My biggest problem was that I had no idea what the English equivalent of the

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Favorite author?

I was ordering a subscription to the Clarkesworld Magazine chapbooks (which look gorgeous) and the order form asks “Who is your favorite author?” This stopped me dead in my tracks. Favorite. I was just having this conversation with my husband last night about The Sparrow. It is the book that I always recommend when people

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Two new raffle items

Okay, I lied. I closed the donation window, but these two came in right after I went to bed. They are lovely and I covet both of them. A six-issue Interzone subscription. An illustration by Sandro Castelli for the story of your choice.

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Apex Raffle update

Well, I closed the donations window tonight with over sixty raffle items. So those of you who were holding out until all the items were in, may start dropping tickets in the hats. You can stop by the site for details but one of the things I added is an audio recording by me. Meanwhile,

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Whoa.

So, it took me about forty-five minutes to create the intial Save Apex website. And then I have spent the rest of the day inputting the donations. I mean, really. They keep coming in. It astounds me. I had a total fan-girl moment when the signed, hardback first-edition copy of the Sparrow came in. When

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Apex Fundraiser

Here’s another way you can support Apex Digest. There’s old-fashioned raffle with amazing prizes at http://saveapex.maryrobinettekowal.com. You can buy a ticket to put your name in the hat to win autographed copies of books, art, video and other strange goodies. Tickets are a dollar each. That’s nothing, right? You can afford that. On Friday, September

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