Changing Suzanne's Story: Emergency Funds for a Writer

Let me tell you about Suzanne. She's a writer, a world-builder, and a dear friend of mine over the past three decades. We need art to live. We need stories and storytellers. We need Suzanne. It's easy to think that artists just make art, but they also have lives, and bills, and accidents that are terrible, or hilarious, or both, depending on the telling.

So when she told me the story about her kid stepping through the ceiling, plaster raining down on their sister's bedroom below, it was with the smile of a writer who sees the humor in the misadventure. I knew it would become a family legend. But when she told me about being crushingly tight on funds due to payment for her work being months late, I knew that was no laughing matter.

I'm asking us all to step up. The amount of money and support that can help pull this story back from a spiral into tragedy, and turn it into a tale of how a community rallied to take care of one of it's own and in the process helped build a better world is so small in this case. $3000, spread around, is 150 people giving $20. The same as buying a novel, but this time, you get to be part of the band of heroes that swoops in to save the day. And the ceiling. We can do it.

And if you want to also read her amazing work, check out Suzanne Palmer at zanzjan.net!