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Good morning guys! Welcome to this week's Radio Free Monday.

Top of the list this week is a link passed on to me by many people. crabby_lioness has posted a detailed account of her recent harassment by both neighbors and law-enforcement officials in her area, who appear to be attempting to force her out of her home. I've had word she's looking for advice and possibly assistance in finding new housing, but right now I think it's mostly just important that the word get out. Please have a look and post a link, if you can.

insixeighttime has a call for help out, not for financial support but just for stories from and about people struggling with depression and eating disorders. She's mentoring a college student who is suffering from depression manifesting as food restriction issues, who has had to drop out of school due to her health and mental state. This is a young woman who is seriously struggling with very few resources, and could really use to hear that she's not alone. Links to resources for help are also greatly appreciated.

sola is participating in a Videogame-a-Thon for children's hospitals and looking for sponsors. And hey, if playing video games for 24 hours straight sounds like something that would interest you (or, you know, your usual Saturday), you can check out the event here.

svalar_unnir pointed me over the past week to the Make It Better Project, spurred by the It Gets Better project. At the time I coded this on Sunday the site was down, but you can read more about it here if it's still down when this is posted.

Relatedly, drgaellon linked me to FCKH8, and their fantastic and profanity laced video about gay marriage (seriously NSFW). FCKH8 sells a variety of merch supporting the fight against Proposition 8 and is a great way, as we discussed last week, to be Visibly Queer Friendly.

Last week I mentioned a cafe member who was having trouble with her truck and needed help purchasing a new car. She's been selling items on ebay, but unfortunately this week -- for reals, someone up there has it in for her -- one of her trees lost a branch, which fell and damaged a neighbor's house, and she's had to foot the bill. She's not asking for donations; she'd just like people to be aware that she's still selling handmade jewelery, fannish merch, gemstones, and other items on her ebay.

taerowyn, off my link to Strowlercon last week, mentioned that The Handsome Little Devils, vaudeville/circus/theatrical performers extraordinaire, are raising funds to perform at New Victory Theatre, which is a big break for them. Their goal is $4,000, and they're only $190 shy at this point wot. If nothing else, check out their youtube for some awesome clips!

I posted some links to Texas dachshund rescues last week; check out more cute weiners at the Midwest Dachshund Rescue, serving the Chicagoland area. (thanks norabombay!)

YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I SAID CUTE WEINERS.

This has been Radio Free Monday. Thanks for your time, guys :) Remember that if you have a link or a request for RFM, you're always welcome to comment here or in any post, or you can email me at copperbadge at gmail.com.

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Holy crap, how the hell is it past noon already? All I've done this morning is answer comments and work. I feel like I'm missing time.

I ran the quasi-final draft of CG through Lulu this morning. Everything seems good; the print file looks hot and the cover fits. The downside of CG is that it's 100 pages longer than Nameless, and Lulu charges by the page. Which means that while I could sell Nameless for $10.50 and still see a profit, CG costs more than that just to print. So the price for CG will be higher than Nameless, for you guys, which I'm not thrilled over.

In a way this is probably a good thing, honestly. When I offered Nameless on the cheap, a lot of people said I shouldn't underestimate my worth. It's not really about that; it's about wanting the books to be available to people who don't have a lot of resources, because god knows I am one of them. But at the same time I do need to learn to put a value to my work, and this is forcing me to put that value higher. The PDF will still be free, and the ebook will be very low cost, but I'm looking at something between $12 and $14 for Charitable Getting, rising to $16 after a few months. Depends on how the final proof goes tomorrow.

Could be worse. My income per book is huge compared to professional authors. There are a lot of factors at work there -- the cost of ad campaigns, the fact that well-paid authors are usually making their bank from merch and movie deals, the work I've put into this equalling roughly the work of four differently trained people -- but at the end of the day I'll do all right.

AUGH HOW IS IT ONE O'CLOCK ALREADY.

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Before I forget, happy Canadian Thanksgiving, o siblings to the north!

I took the air conditioner out of the window today, because there will be workmen in here tomorrow doing *handwave* to the windows and they needed unfettered access. This is also why my living room looks...well, the way it looks at the moment. Probably a good thing. I can clean the windowsills. Eventually. Anyway, I didn't drop the air conditioner out the window or on my foot, so I deem that a successful extraction.

No nibbles on my Cunning Slice Of Bread yet, so if there are rodents in my walls they're circumspect or possibly just fucking with me.

It's probably an indication of my mental state that I keep starting to talk about something that I want to talk about and then forgetting about it. Seriously, there's a post in my head about...something, but halfway through a sentence I'll forget it and delete it and then remember it again. I'm pretty sure this is a combination of headache and nerves about the work I'm doing, but my god it's annoying.

More when the stabbing pain dies down...