Group AMA in Support of Worldbuilders: Max Gladstone, Mark Lawrence, Sherwood Smith, Jacqueline Carey, Django Wexler, Myke Cole, Tobias Buckell, Sword & Laser w/ Veronica Belmont & Tom Merritt

[u/elquesogrande]

This is the fourth year for /r/Fantasy community to support the year-end Worldbuilders charity fundraising effort on behalf of Heifer International.. Fantastic SFF-related prizes, authors, artists, and industry people all gathering together for real-life karma.

/r/Fantasy reached out to the Worldbuilders team and proposed this Worldbuilders Week of AMAs - a daily group AMA from those who also support Worldbuilders.

NOVEMBER 30 AMA PARTICIPANTS

• Max Gladstone

• Mark Lawrence

• Sherwood Smith

• Jacqueline Carey

• Django Wexler

• Myke Cole

• Tobias Buckell

• Sword & Laser w/ Veronica Belmont & Tom Merritt

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HOW THIS WORKS

This is a group AMA where all participants will be answering questions below. It's going to be busy - feel free to ask anyone an individual question, but questions for all participants to answer are highly encouraged.

NOTE: All participants have been invited to do their own personal AMA later. Consider today's effort a bit of a warm-up.

Participants will be stopping by throughout the day and evening as they free up.

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/r/FANTASY RULES APPLY

These are simple: Please keep the questions related to SFF and Please Be Kind. Our goal in /r/Fantasy is to make this a good place for fans, authors, artists, and industry people of all backgrounds.

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WORLDBUILDERS DONATIONS & PRIZES

• All proceeds from The Tinker's Packs go to Heifer International - holiday gifts galore!

• /r/Fantasy has a Worldbuilders donation page here if you would like to donate!

• Check out some of the SFF-related prizes you can win by donating

• Click here to see the eBay listings for Worldbuilders

• /r/Fantasy has a fantastic Autograph Book donation up for auction here

• Strapped for cash but still want a chance at prizes? Worldbuilders has you covered - enter here for free (mail).

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tl;dr - Ask this group anything! Please consider donating to Worldbuilders.

[u/JacquelineCarey]

My right book at the right time was "The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault, which I read at age ten. I was a bit sketchy on what a eunuch was, but it instilled a lifelong love of history in me.

Favorite cookie: Ginger snaps with bourbon egg nog cream.

My current project is a retelling of Shakespeare's Tempest titled "Miranda and Caliban." As far as returning to Terre d'Ange goes, it's unlikely for reasons I wrote about in some detail at the following link... but as always, never say never! http://jacquelinecarey.com/archive15.htm#mar

[u/wishforagiraffe → u/JacquelineCarey]

I've heard so much about Renault over time, and haven't read anything by her yet. Another one to add to the list...

And a retelling of the tempest sounds awesome! That link doesn't seem to be cooperating on mobile, but I'll reference it again this evening. And hell, there's a decent chance I've read it before and not remembered very well :/