Triumph over Tragedy: An Anthology for the Victims of Hurricane Sandy

**Rob B** · November 14th, 2012, 12:54 PM

As many of my readers know, I live in New Jersey. Superstorm Sandy hit two weeks ago and to say that the natural disaster transformed parts of the region into an apocalyptic landscape would be an understatement. In other words, I'll take the five-day power outage and dozen or so toppled trees around my property as a win compared to what happened in other parts of New Jersey and New York.

Author R.T. Kaelin immediately grabbed his bootstraps and put together Triumph over Tragedy, a benefit anthology for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Sarah of the terrific blog Bookworm Blues has been pitching in as well, most recently securing Elizabeth Bear for a story. Additionally, the VERY IMPRESSIVE list of contributors looks something like this:

Robert Silverberg (Hugo and Nebular Award winner)
Marion Zimmer Bradley (Locus Award winner) (donated by the MZB Literary Trust)
Elizabeth Bear
Michael J. Sullivan
Bradley P. Beaulieu
Phillip Athans
Stephen D. Sullivan
Mark Lawrence
Rick Novy
Jean Rabe
Maxwell Alexander Drake
SM Blooding
Erik Scott de Bie
Alex Bledsoe
Matthew Wayne Selznick
R.T. Kaelin
Ari Marmell
Jaym Gates
C.S. Marks
C.J. Henderson
Marian Allen
Bryan Young
Donald Bingle
Janine Spendlove
T.L. Gray
Miya Kressin
Steven Saus
Addie King
Rob Knipe
Vicki Johnson-Steger
Tracy Chowdhury
Doris Stever
Gregory Wilson

More information, and how to contribute, can be found at the Indie Go Go page for Triumph over Tragedy.

http://www.indiegogo.com/TriumphOverTragedy

**Rob B** · November 20th, 2012, 08:33 PM

Folks, I'm now on board this project helping to edit some of the stories. I'd also like to let you all know Adrian Tchaikovsky recently agreed to offer a story to the anthology.

**DurzoBlint** · November 23rd, 2012, 07:56 PM

Great charity, looking forward to reading the collection. Very worthy cause as well.

**BookwormBlues** · December 4th, 2012, 07:48 PM

I am also editing this anthology. Just for a heads up, we've signed up some more wonderful, very exciting and very well known authors. Here's the current list of authors contributing stories to Triumph Over Tragedy right now:

• Robert Silverberg (Hugo and Nebula Award winner)
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (Locus Award winner) (donated by the MZB Literary Trust)
• Timothy Zahn (Hugo Award winner)
• Elizabeth Bear
• Michael J. Sullivan
• Mark Lawrence
• Bradley P. Beaulieu
• Philip Athans
• Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Tobias Buckell
Tim Marquitz
• Stephen D. Sullivan
• Rick Novy
• Jean Rabe
• Maxwell Alexander Drake
• SM Blooding
• Erik Scott de Bie
• Alex Bledsoe
• Elisabeth Waters
• R.T. Kaelin
• Ari Marmell
• Matt Bone
• Sarah Hans
• Rob Rogers
• Jaym Gates
• C.S. Marks
• C.J. Henderson
• Marian Allen
• Bryan Young
• Donald Bingle
• Janine Spendlove
• T.L. Gray
• Miya Kressin
• Matthew Wayne Selznick
• Steven Saus
• Addie King
• Rob Knipe
• Vicki Johnson-Steger
• Tracy Chowdhury
• Doris Stever

**DurzoBlint** · December 4th, 2012, 09:45 PM

Wow! Glad I picked this up. The list keeps getting better and better. Who isn't in this anthology?

**DurzoBlint** · December 4th, 2012, 10:29 PM

It should also be noted that Tim Marquitz has also been added to the list of contributing authors.

**BookwormBlues** · December 4th, 2012, 10:38 PM

Yeah I just noticed I left his name out. I was watching my 16 month old while I was typing this up and his name slipped through the cracks caused by distraction. Terrible of me. Thanks for adding his name!

**BookwormBlues** · December 5th, 2012, 04:32 PM

... and we've just added NYT bestseller Michael Stackpole.

http://www.bookwormblues.net/2012/12...ael-stackpole/

**DurzoBlint** · December 17th, 2012, 05:52 PM

I think it would be more helpful to list the authors not contributing. I am looking forward to this anthology, great cause and shaping up to be an impressive list of authors.

**Rob B** · January 10th, 2013, 11:26 AM

The anthology is now available on amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AYA1DZC/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

40+ stories for $6.99 with the proceeds going to a good cause? Why haven't you bought it?