Circlet Press on YouTube tonight!

Hi everyone!

Circlet Press, purveyors of "erotica for geeks," is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and you're invited!



That should be a link to the YouTube livestream going on right now.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary, Circlet is running a Kickstarter to fund next year's publishing projects. It's got less than 24 hours left, and it would be real swell if you'd consider donating to it. (I have a story in Beastly Affair, one of the books that will come out if the Kickstarter gets funded well enough!)

Strength in Numbers Music Post: "No Turning Back" by Chops x Paul Kim x Dumbfoundead

"Fuck a plan B—real Gs get plan A right." — Dumbfoundead



I've been listening to this song nonstop this week. It's part of a Kickstarter project that's still a way from getting funded. I'm trying to do my part spreading the word—I would really like to see this happen.

Help Erica Stand Up for Herself

What's Revenge teaser from KAT HUNT on Vimeo.

The idea of revenge makes me very uncomfortable, and yet, when I watched the teaser for this proposed documentary, I teared up, then spent about five minutes crying before I could get myself together. What moved me so much was the meek hopelessness so clear and visible in Erica's telling of her story. After relaying an incident of sexual harassment, she concludes by saying, with flat eyes, "What could I even do?"

I've been that woman. I've been hurt, but felt there was no point in seeking recourse. I've tried to seek recourse, and found that hurt worse, in some ways, than sucking it up would have.

I understand why a friend would want to act on this woman's behalf, to do something, to make people pay, and maybe to make them understand. I'm not sure how I feel about revenge, and I'm glad the makers of the documentary aren't either. What I do know is that this feels important to me. Art can get at really uncomfortable things like this in a way purely cerebral exercises often can't.

I've supported projects on Kickstarter before, but rarely have I felt such urgency about it. It looks like Erica and her friends need this film to be made, but you know what? I need it, too.

Coming Out and Coming of Age

Cecilia Tan, author and publisher of Circlet Press, describes Daron's Guitar Chronicles as "a webfiction serial about a young guitarist coming out and coming of age in the 1980s." She's been running the serial since 2010, but is now turning to Kickstarter to fund a print edition. Check it out, and considering giving her a hand! (Her video describing the project follows).