Impossible Territories

ratmmjess  is on my friends list, even though I've never met him. He writes encyclopedias, including The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana, which I totally want but which is out of stock.

Anyway, this offer on his LJ today struck me as so sweet I thought I would repost it in case anyone on my own friends list is interested.

You may or may not know that my book Impossible Territories is out now. Impossible Territories is the book version of the annotations to Alan Moore's Black Dossier, the third League of Extraordinary Gentlemen text. Impossible Territories has my revised annotations to the series, Kevin O'Neill's corrections of my mistakes, and a long interview with Alan Moore.

I got my comp copies of the book today. And while I'm going to be giving a few copies to various libraries, I'm still going to have a lot of extras. So here's what I'm going to do with them:

Impossible Territories has a cover price of $15.95. If you give a donation of $15 (in cash or useful products) to a local charity, I will mail you a free copy of the book. (You can buy used copies for cheaper than the cover price, but the cost of postage will bring it up to around $15).

My only restriction is this: it has to be a non-profit or charity helping women or animals--donations to "men's rights" charities will get you only my scorn. And the non-profit or charity has to be a local one. Folks like the Humane Society and NARAL need your money, but your local animal shelter or battered women's shelter need your money a lot more. (The locals are always worse off than the national organizations).

I won't ask for a receipt, but I will ask you to provide the name of the charity you donated to.