World SF Travel Fund + Fantasy Author Calendar

A few years back I contributed to the World SF Travel Fund's Peerbacker campaign to send Charles Tan to World Fantasy Con.  They're fundraising again, this time to send two people to the con:

Csilla Kleinheincz is a Hungarian-Vietnamese writer living in Kistarcsa, Hungary with her husband and daughter. She is the author of two novels and a short story collection. Her stories can be read in English in the anthologies Interfictions, Heiresses of Russ 2011, and The Apex Book of World SF 2. Some of her stories were translated into Portuguese, Finnish, Czech and Estonian. Csilla is also a translator of works by Peter S. Beagle, Kelly Link, Ursula K. Le Guin and Catherynne M. Valente. She currently works as the editor of the SF/F publishing house Ad Astra, and in her free time edits the Hungarian online SF magazine SFmag.


Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipino writer of science fiction and fantasy. A graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, Rochita was the recipient of the 2009 Octavia Butler Scholarship, and the first Filipina writer to attend Clarion West. Her short fiction has appeared in a variety of online and print publications, including Interzone, Fantasy Magazine, Apex Magazine, Weird Tales, and the anthologies Robots: The Recent A.I., and The Apex Book of World SF 2. In the Philippines, her short fiction has been published in Philippine Panorama, Philippine Speculative Fiction 2, and Philippine Speculative Fiction 4. Rochita currently resides in the Netherlands with her husband and her two children.

There's only 12 days left for them to reach their $3000 goal (but they're pretty close) and the rewards are mostly Angry Robot ebooks.
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There's another interesting campaign on Kickstarter to make a fantasy calendar using fantasy authors.  The photographer, Lauren Zurchin, will make custom costumes for each author with the help of Nami Ogawara, that the authors will then do a photo shoot wearing.  She isn't going to turn the authors into people from their own works though, she's got more generic fantasy themes in mind.

She's got her 12 authors on board already and they are:

• Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles; The Curse Workers Series)
• Gail Carriger (Soulless; The Parasol Protectorate)
• Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments; The Infernal Devices)
• Lauren Kate (Fallen)
• Gregory Maguire (Wicked; The Oz Chronicles)
• The Merry Sisters of Fate- a trio of authors consisting of: Tessa Gratton (Blood Magic; The Blood Keeper), Maggie Stiefvater (Shiver; The Scorpio Races; The Raven Boys), and Brenna Yovanoff (The Replacement; Paper Valentine)
• Brandon Mull (Fablehaven; Beyonders)
• Lauren Oliver (Delirium; Before I Fall)
• Christopher Paolini (The Inheritance Cycle)
• Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind)
• Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time; Mistborn)
• Tad Williams (Otherland; Memory, Sorrow and Thorn)

Rewards are for digital images of the photos, postcards, bookmarks and signed photos of various sizes by the authors.