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I am awestruck and honored by the support I have received. A few days ago one of my friends publicized the project on Facebook, and two brand-new backers joined the gang as a result!

But that last $791.22 is going to be crucial. Under Kickstarter rules the project doesn't get funded at all if I'm even a penny below goal when the deadline hits. Spreading the word would be really helpful!

In other news:

• I've started a new SF story, which I'm tentatively calling "Till We Have Built Jerusalem." I'm about 1,200 words into the first draft now, and my best guess is that it'll be about 4,000 when I'm done. I have three first drafts "ripening" (waiting for me to forget enough about them that I can do a relatively objective second draft). They're a fairy tale (6,600 words), and two SF stories (3,300 and 2,200 words).
• I have a backlog of stories on which I've received comments from friends, but haven't yet rewritten: they range from a 1,000-word fantasy to a 9,500-word "mainstream" novelette.
• Right now eight stories are under submission to various markets. One of these has been under review by a particular magazine for 174 days (this isn't significant; that particular magazine is notoriously slow). Another is currently on its 8th submission (this is significant, but not very; often it takes a long time to find the right market for a particular story).
• And, from Rick Horton's review of GUD #5 in Locus magazine: "Kenneth Schneyer, in 'Liza's Home', coils time paradoxes nicely in a story of a woman racked by guilt who invents a time machine."