Raising money for Locus Magazine

Bid on naming rights for a character in one of my upcoming novels.

Update: The naming rights/Tuckerization from this fundraiser sold almost immediately after this post went live, so we’ve added another one.

Update 2: This one sold, too.

Since 1968, Locus magazine has been the paper of record for science fiction, fantasy and horror literature; it’s been through several iterations, but the current one — a crowd-supported nonprofit — is the best yet. They’re raising $75k on Indiegogo to fund the next year’s operations:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/locus-magazine-science-fiction-fantasy-horror#/

I started writing a bimonthly column for Locus in 2006; I’ve written six columns per year for them ever since, without missing a single one, and every one of them is open access on the same day it comes out in print:

https://www.locusmag.com/2006/Issues/07DoctorowCommentary.html

After Locus founder Charles N Brown died in 2009 — in his sleep, on a plane, coming back from an sf con he’d covered for the magazine — his staff took over the magazine and its vast archive of science fiction ephemera and restructured it as a nonprofit. Brown’s collection went to Duke University: