Brave New Girls is officially funded!

Good news, everyone! Actually, that's an understatement. Great news! Awesome news! Terrific news!

Ah whatever, you get the picture...

I'm jumping around over here with a stupid grin on my face, because not only did the Brave New Girls crowdfunding campaign, which closed yesterday, raise enough cash to ensure we can publish a quality book, but we exceeded our goal! Including offline donations, we raised more than 125% of what we originally set out for!

For those of you just tuning in, Brave New Girls is a young adult sci-fi anthology I'm indie publishing with fellow sci-fi writer Paige Daniels (author of the Non-Compliance trilogy). The theme is teen girls in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), and our goal is to encourage more young ladies to enter these fields. Right now, there is a dearth of stories starring tech-savvy heroines, and we believe that if more girls saw themselves portrayed as programmers, scientists, engineers, and the like, more may explore those careers (currently, women make up only 26% of STEM professionals). All profits from sales of the anthology will be donated to a scholarship fund through the Society of Women Engineers.

The funds raised will go through the costs of publishing - editing, proofreading, formatting, some marketing ... and we can even afford illustrations! It's been a truly exciting 45 days or so, and I couldn't be more thrilled.

Huge, HUGE thanks to all our awesome donors (in no particular order):

Lucy Xia, Hacker Extraordinaire
Zoe Harris, Hacker Extraordinaire
Andrew Weintraub, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Linda van der Pal, Hacker Extraordinaire
Samir Tamer, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Feifang Hu, Starship Captain
Huibin Zhou, Starship Captain
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Zheng Ke, Hacker Extraordinaire
Dacheng Xiu, Starship Captain
Clifford Lam, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Yang Feng, Starship Captain
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Huixia Judy Wang, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Dean Lombardo, Hacker Extraordinaire
Jelena Bradic, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Jian-Lun Xu, Starship Captain
Ahmet Emre Barut, Interstellar Pilot
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Byeong Uk Park, Starship Captain
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Xu Han, Starship Captain
Yue Niu, Starship Captain
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Ying Lu, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Emily Conrad, Starship Captain
Chintan Mehta, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Wolfgang Goerlich, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Fengshan Liu, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Ryan Smith, Hacker Extraordinaire
Daniel Jiang, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Will Gallego, Hacker Extraordinaire
Nikki Thean, Starship Captain
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Lori Lum, Hacker Extraordinaire
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Kate Moretti, Interstellar Pilot
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