Charlie ([info]ccfinlay) wrote,
@ 2006-08-18 06:59:00
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Boom!

Thanks to everyone who took my half-formed idea of having a slush bomb to F&SF and ran with it, articulating reasons for doing it, enumerating the positive effects, and spreading the word. I've been part of the discussions on gender disparity since 2001 or 2002, and it's been amazing to me, beyond my earliest expectations, to see people do one more concrete thing to address it.

It's first thing in the morning here, and I'm still not really sure how many writers will show up for this virtual rally. So far I've only included those who said their story was in the envelope or already sent, which is 24 as of 7:30 this morning. If I've missed you, please leave a note in the comments. I'll keep adding names to the list below through the weekend. (Because really, we all know about writers and deadlines.)

And here we go! Thanks to all of you. This has been great.

ETA, as requested, I'm trying to add links to homepages or bibliographies as I have time. Not that previous publications matter, as all of us had a first sale, and for some of us it was to F&SF. I've tried not to share information that people might not want shared (like if I know you, but your lj page contains no clues as to who you are). As of 10 a.m. Saturday, there are 44 writers participating -- very cool.

1. [info]anghara Alma A. Hromic, aka Alma Alexander.
2. [info]ellameena Catherine Shaffer
3. [info]matociquala Elizabeth Bear
4. [info]aliettedb Aliette de Bodard
5. [info]jennreese Jenn Reese
6. [info]cristalia Leah Bobet
7. [info]stillnotbored Jaime Voss
8. [info]raecarson Rae Dawn Carson
9. [info]hkneale Heidi Kneale
10. [info]lisamantchev Lisa Mantchev
11. [info]retrobabble Kelly
12. [info]battle_of_one Karin Lowachee (I'll take this link down if she doesn't want her secret lj identity outed, but I thought her interests kinda give it away)
13. [info]tu_sense
14. [info]porphyrin S. Evans (does anybody know if there's a S. Evans bibliography page out there? she's published a lot the last couple years)
15. [info]themachinestops
16. [info]reudaly Rhonda Eudaly
17. [info]sailormur Mur Lafferty
18. [info]rachel_swirsky Rachel Swirsky
19. [info]kim_richards Kim Richards
20. [info]charmingbillie Deborah Coates (I don't think there's an up-to-date bibliography of her work either -- the Sci Fiction one is out of date)
21. [info]kirizal Sharon Mock
22. [info]cassiphone Tansy Rayner Roberts
23. [info]gjules G. Jules
24. M. Lowd
25. [info]stillsostrange Amanda Downum (I don't think she has a bibliography posted either, but with all her sales lately, it'd be hard to keep it up)
26. [info]mekkavandexter Amber van Dyk
27. [info]ann_leckie
28. [info]maggiedr
29. [info]sallytuppence Sarah Prineas (it looks like squatters have taken over her website, with all the lists of her published work)
30. Lisa Bradley
31. [info]tanaise
32. [info]katallen
33. [info]ombriel
34. [info]rambleflower
35. [info]clarentine
36. Kaori Praschak
37. [info]pjthompson
38. [info]bondgwendabond
39. [info]iagor
40. [info]camillemulan
41. [info]mallory_blog
42. [info]ruralwriter
43. [info]cicadabug
44. [info]heavenscalyx
45. [info]andrine and [info]davidlevine
46. [info]jodi_davis
47. [info]affinity8
48. [info]ombriel
49. Shweta
50. Barbara Gordon




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[info]stillsostrange
2006-08-18 11:39 am UTC (link)
Mine is in the mail with Jaime's & Bear's. It's like going to the bathroom together, except...not.

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 12:48 pm UTC (link)
Cool! I should've guessed. :)

And congratulations on the latest sale to Strange Horizons. You've been incredible lately.

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(no subject) - [info]ccfinlay, 2006-08-18 12:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tanaise, 2006-08-18 05:45 pm UTC

[info]jimhines
2006-08-18 11:41 am UTC (link)
No bomb from me, alas. But I wanted to stop in and offer my congrats, despite all of the flack you got (including my own questions about the experiment). You saw a potential problem, and instead of just griping about it, you did something to try and address it. That's worth brownies and ice cream right there.

Good luck to all of the bombers! I'll be curious to hear the results.

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 12:51 pm UTC (link)
Thanks. To be honest, my reactions to some of the flack had a lot more to do with other stuff going on in my life than to the actual flack -- I'm not really bothered when people disagree with me.

But I'll still take the brownies and ice cream!

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[info]buymeaclue
2006-08-18 11:53 am UTC (link)
to see people finally decide to stop talking about it

'Finally,' Charlie? I appreciate what you're trying to do here, but that's unfair.

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 12:15 pm UTC (link)
You're absolutely right. Thanks for calling me on that. I changed it.

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(no subject) - [info]buymeaclue, 2006-08-18 12:18 pm UTC

[info]ellameena
2006-08-18 12:58 pm UTC (link)
Woohoo! Thanks for the nudge. There are so many distractions in my life, it's easy to back burner fiction, especially short fiction.

Good luck to all the slush bombers. May the best woman win. Or sell a story. Or something. :-)

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 03:52 pm UTC (link)
I'm hoping that almost everybody wins by selling their story here or elsewhere.

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(no subject) - [info]cassiphone, 2006-08-18 11:20 pm UTC

[info]mekkavandexter
2006-08-18 01:34 pm UTC (link)
if i can fix it, mine is going in, if not i have a shorter one i can send, that will be out tonight or early tomorrow (i know, day late, but it won't leave the post office until tomorrow anyway)

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 03:52 pm UTC (link)
Yeehaw!

Go, Pea.

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(no subject) - [info]sallytuppence, 2006-08-18 04:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mekkavandexter, 2006-08-18 04:48 pm UTC

[info]ann_leckie
2006-08-18 01:41 pm UTC (link)
It's in the envelope and sealed and addressed! And it will go out today. No chance of forgetting--the post office is by the grocery store, and we're out of cat litter.

And I think this was a fantastic idea, Charlie, so I'm going to be yet another one thanking you.

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 03:53 pm UTC (link)
I'm glad you think so. And good luck with the story!

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[info]maggiedr
2006-08-18 01:52 pm UTC (link)
I'm all about the good intentions. Finished my story this week after a 3 week struggle but was hoping to get a few crits back. Hope to hear something and give it a final polish--assuming major problems don't exist that I missed--then out the door. That could happen today but seems more likely to be this weekend.

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 03:54 pm UTC (link)
I had been intending to crit a bunch myself, but the time crunch lately has been killer.

Still, I'm counting you in -- congrats on getting the story done!

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(no subject) - [info]maggiedr, 2006-08-19 07:56 pm UTC

[info]sallytuppence
2006-08-18 01:52 pm UTC (link)
I can add a name to that list, Charlie. Lisa Bradley, who is not on LJ. Woo hoo!

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 02:28 pm UTC (link)
Great! But what about your name? Did you get your story done?!

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(no subject) - [info]sallytuppence, 2006-08-18 02:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jennreese, 2006-08-18 03:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sallytuppence, 2006-08-18 04:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ccfinlay, 2006-08-18 03:54 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sallytuppence, 2006-08-18 04:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]charmingbillie, 2006-08-18 04:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]sallytuppence, 2006-08-18 05:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tanaise, 2006-08-18 05:52 pm UTC
Crap, I've Been Outed! - (Anonymous), 2006-08-18 04:58 pm UTC
Re: Crap, I've Been Outed! - [info]sallytuppence, 2006-08-18 05:04 pm UTC

[info]careswen
2006-08-18 02:11 pm UTC (link)
Woot for all of you! Go Go!

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[info]sartorias
2006-08-18 03:22 pm UTC (link)
I tried--but another deadline overwhelmed me. If there is another, I'll join that one.

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 03:55 pm UTC (link)
That happens Sherwood -- and heck, school starts in another week or two also, right?

Thanks for stopping by to say something though.

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(no subject) - [info]sartorias, 2006-08-18 03:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ccfinlay, 2006-08-18 04:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jennreese, 2006-08-18 07:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]elysdir, 2006-08-24 03:39 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sartorias, 2006-08-24 03:55 am UTC

[info]tanaise
2006-08-18 03:35 pm UTC (link)
Mine's printed, enveloped and sealed.

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[info]ccfinlay
2006-08-18 03:55 pm UTC (link)
Woo! Go, Celia!

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(no subject) - [info]tanaise, 2006-08-18 03:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ccfinlay, 2006-08-18 04:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mekkavandexter, 2006-08-18 04:49 pm UTC

[info]ombriel
2006-08-18 04:33 pm UTC (link)
Mine's going to be a tad delayed--I'll being sending it Tuesday at the latest. Hopefully it'll still contribute to the bombing element.

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[info]dr_phil_physics
2006-08-18 04:38 pm UTC (link)
As I write this you are already up to 31 and it's not even 12:30p EDT.

But Charlie, clearly the bomb itself discriminates -- nearly all those submitting are on LiveJournal. (grin)

Anyways, here's to good stories and good fun for all!

Dr. Phil

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[info]ex_filmmaker362
2006-08-18 04:44 pm UTC (link)
I'm hoping against hope that somebody submits a story titled: The Attack of the 100-Story Slushbombs.

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[info]retrobabble
2006-08-18 06:33 pm UTC (link)
Aw, darn - no time!

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(no subject) - [info]ex_filmmaker362, 2006-08-18 07:02 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dogzilla30, 2006-08-19 10:34 pm UTC

[info]stillnotbored
2006-08-18 04:46 pm UTC (link)
Charlie, in case you don't see it, Kat sent one in today too.

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[info]rambleflower
2006-08-18 05:26 pm UTC (link)
I got my story done late last night and it's in the mail as I type this. Whoo!

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[info]rambleflower
2006-08-18 05:32 pm UTC (link)
Oh, and I wanted to say thank you for organizing this. I don't know if we'll see any statistical results from the bomb, but I figure there's never going to be any change in gender disparity in the field unless we stand up and make a ruckus about it. No matter whether people agree or not, folks are talking about it, and that makes me very happy.

Also, this deadline meant that I got this story -- which has needed to be revised for over a year now -- *finished* and out the door. Hooray for deadlines!

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(no subject) - [info]sallytuppence, 2006-08-18 08:11 pm UTC

[info]clarentine
2006-08-18 06:13 pm UTC (link)
Mine's away!

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-18 07:01 pm UTC (link)
I just got back from the post office after a mad bout of revision.

Thanks for pushing us to submit, Charlie. Having a deadline and a target for my submission was good for me. :)

--Kaori Praschak

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-23 05:06 pm UTC (link)
Hey Kaori! Congrats on getting it out and good luck!
-Barbara (BGordon on OWW)

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[info]pjthompson
2006-08-18 07:26 pm UTC (link)
Mine went in the mail this morning, too.

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[info]pjthompson
2006-08-18 07:30 pm UTC (link)
P.S. And thanks for showing us a good time. ;-)

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[info]bondgwendabond
2006-08-18 07:55 pm UTC (link)
Christopher just mailed my story, completed at the very last second. (And it would SO have stayed on the hard drive for a long time without this motivator -- so thank you doubly.) I'm not sure it's even in F&SF's neighborhood, but you never know.

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I can prove it
[info]colonelrowe
2006-08-18 08:48 pm UTC (link)
See?

http://gwendabond.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/fandsf.jpg

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Re: I can prove it - [info]ruralwriter, 2006-08-19 01:52 am UTC
Re: I can prove it - [info]bondgwendabond, 2006-08-19 08:19 pm UTC

[info]sallytuppence
2006-08-18 08:10 pm UTC (link)
Okay, mine's all packaged up and ready to go! Theo and I are heading to the post office in the rain.

Woo hoo all you Babes with new stories for the Bomb!

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[info]iagor
2006-08-18 09:28 pm UTC (link)
Smut story mailed to S&SF. Add me to the list

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[info]camillemulan
2006-08-18 10:28 pm UTC (link)
My story is off!

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[info]mallory_blog
2006-08-21 02:25 am UTC (link)
Super!!!

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[info]reudaly
2006-08-18 10:58 pm UTC (link)
I started a new part-time job today - BUT I made it to the post office to mail in my SlushBomb contribution before my commute!

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