I am thrilled to announce the 2013 Literary Pin-up Calendar.
This year I again partnered with Worldbuilders to publish my charity calendar, but this time instead of deceased authors who couldn’t fight back, we invited 12 amazing fantasy authors to participate. I will be previewing each author, one a week, which leads me to the splendid Peter S. Beagle.
I’d love to write all manner of words that might in some way suggest Peter’s own writing. But I can’t. What I can do is tell my brief story and hope that a picture or two will be sufficient keep your interest.
I was invited to be the Artist Guest of Honor at Baycon in 2010, and happily accepted. I love getting out and seeing people, talking about art and fantasy and science fiction and the media, and….
the guest of honor was none other than Peter Beagle!
There’s a strange integrity to properly told tales, and to their tellers.
Peter is an original – a marvelous person who writes of marvels, but never took on airs of the high-falutin’. We shared panels, cookies, and stories. Never enough of any of course – there was just not time. But any storyteller powerful enough to keep me quiet for longer than 10 minutes deserves all possible praise. :)
He and his companion enjoyed the still-unpublished Literary Pin-Ups I had in the art show and I sent them away with one.
Two years later, when the calendar premiered at the World fantasy Convention in SanDiego, there was Peter again!
I was kicking myself just a little for not bringing anything for him to sign when, by strange twist of fate, someone put a new edition of The Last Unicorn on the Freebies table!
When it came time to work on this year’s CHECK THESE OUT! calendar, publisher Pat Rothfuss and I immediately agreed that we wanted Peter included. And, after various calls, notes, and emails with Peter in several different locations about the country: voila.
This piece is not representative of the calendar as a whole.
It’s not even representative of Peter’s fine multi-faceted career.
But it is a picture. And I hope it’s worth at least 1000 words.
Calendar pre-order are available on-line at The Tinker’s Packs.
Beautiful and hurrah! I’m a bookseller and just had a customer ask me if I’d be stocking this calendar…who shall I bug about wholesale?
Drop a line to donations@worldbuilders.org. We’ll work something out.
Looking very fine, sir!
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Also a Bookseller interested in carrying these for the Holidays! Let me know about wholesale, please!
Just got mine in the mail; LOVE IT!!! Any chance of catching a peek at the 2012 one? I’d love to see the other characters you’ve pinned up!
THanks AJ!
There are bits online, but I should perhaps post the past in the near future….
Is there going to be a 2014 version? i haven’t seen/heard. I loved my 2013!
Absolutely! The 2014 calendar was published by the Clarion Foundation and it can be purchased on their website: http://www.theclarionfoundation.org/calendar.htm
If you know others who didn’t hear the good news as well, please feel free to share the info about the calendar! Thanks!