Squee the book

[rivers_bend]

SQUEE! (NOW WITH LINK UNDER THE BANNER OR IN THE TEXT)

Welcome to a book project by me and the amazing missyjack. We love our fandoms, but above all we love fangirls and we wanted to put together a book written by fangirls about being a fangirl. A book by us, for us.

This book is to be a collection of the sort of tales we tell each other over a few cocktails. Our origin stories, stories about becoming a writer or an artist, of friendships made and hours spent posting pics of very pretty people.

We hope many of you will contribute essays or anecdotes to the collection. It might be 3,000 words about an epic fangirl road trip, or 500 words about some mad moment on LJ. We want stories from the fannish past too -- from the days of photocopied fanzines, and messageboards and long dead fandoms.

We hope the book will be – like fandom - eclectic and quirky, diverse and just a bit dangerous.

You can find all the details about the book and how to submit to it at Squee the book!

I am so excited to kick off this book-shaped project and hope you'll help boost the signal so we can get an amazing array of fangirl tales. But most of all submit your fangirl story to us.

Join in the Squee!

PS Thanks already to the awesome fangirls angstslashhope, hells_half_acre, and counteragent who already helped with getting the website together.

Comments

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

since we both live in the SF bay area, I'd actually like to get together and talk about this stuff over a couple of drinks IRL, are you interested?

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

I would love that, but I actually live in Seattle, now! I moved up here last autumn.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

oh poop! well i can still contribute, do you want the Hugh Laurie story, the Monty Python stories, the MST3K guys story, the Patrick Stewart story, or just the fact that i got hugged and kissed by Penn and Teller?

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

Awwwww! What a lovely idea!

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

We hope so :D

and there are actually links to the website in the post now /o\

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

I can't find a link to the website! *paws at screen*
(brilliant idea, ladies!)

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

because I was doing it at 5am :( BUT THERE ARE LINKS NOW. http://www.squeethebook.com/

[silsbee329.livejournal.com]

Yay! Awesome! Thankee. ;)
ETA: I have looked. I can't wait to buy this sucker! I hope I can think of something to contribute, too. :) :)

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is awesome! Shall certainly spread the word :)

[desfinado.livejournal.com]

This is SO FUCKING GREAT!

[sylvanwitch]

This sounds like a great idea! I'll have to think of a story to share... Hmmmmm

[ride-4ever.livejournal.com]

OMG yays! *scampers off to boost the signal*