Margaret Atwood is taking a short break from creating acclaimed and award-winning literary books to contribute a few cartoons to a crowd-funded, all-female anthology targeted at the “geek girl” interested in “tales on matchmaking and really love”.

Racing towards the purpose of
C$37,000 (£19,000) on Kickstarter
– founded early in the day this week, truly already in excess of C$27,000 – The Secret love with geek ladies could be the brainchild of Hope Nicholson, a Canadian comic-book writer and editor, whom called it “a party associated with the stories we tell one another but never make public – up to now”. Atwood is among the most high-profile of a number of females, both designers and followers, contributing a mix of prose tales and comics into anthology.

The Booker prize-winning Canadian author is actually shown in the address on the Secret wants of Geek women, along with other contributors: “I’m white-hair w. cat; pleased I have long feet eventually,” she tweeted of her picture. She’s going to be drawing her own cartoons outlining her “personal encounters as a new lady” the anthology, says Nicholson; various other pieces from over 40 contributors include a comic about “lovers just who fulfill, connect, and discover some truths about on their own through an
MMORPG
” from Irene Koh, one on a childhood fixation with last Fantasy VII from Jenn Woodall, JM Frey’s story titled “How
Fanfiction
Forced me to Gay” and a comic on how creator Meags Fitzgerald’s “pre-teen passion for Sailor Moon intersected with her new fascination with the technicians of sex”.

Atwood is supplying
Kickstarter
traders a four-panel comical strip developed specifically for one audience, charging C$1,500, with already been snapped up. Followers have also pounced on a C$750 offer when it comes to original artwork behind one of many pieces this woman is producing for any collection.

Nicholson, that has currently successfully financed and printed two comical selections via Kickstarter, says that the woman brand-new job was actually empowered by reading matchmaking advice on the internet. “I find me extremely positive when we see an article on information or details on geeks and online dating. But quickly this excitement turns to frustration; the content articles are always authored with precisely the male geeks in your mind,” she writes on Kickstarter.

“there’s a wilderness of information geared towards the ladies in fandom. However whenever I meet up using my pals at activities or higher beverages, one of our significant subjects is actually how we handle connections and crushes, rejections, undesirable advances, and general intimate and intimate entanglements.”

She
told her local website the Torontoist
that whenever she was younger, she read adolescent mags aimed at girls such as for instance Seventeen, but found “there seemed to be

always

that unusual part from inside the mags in which they would state something similar to, ‘What to do as soon as your boyfriend wants video games over the guy likes you’, and I also’d think: ‘Well its barely feasible he loves them a lot more than I really like the video games.’ As a result it was actually usually this feeling of becoming advised, ‘You might have love stories and guidance, or you can be nerdy, but there is however no crossover.’ Which, when I’ve become older and I’ve built and found these communities of incredible, nerdy females, we recognize is absolutely ridiculous. The audience is so starved in some how to explore our very own encounters, and then we do not get that anywhere.”

Compiled by both fans and expert authors, The Secret wants of Geek women, she mentioned, “gathers successes as well as embarrassments … and reassures united states that no real matter what we’re going right on through or went through, our company is never alone”.

Atwood was landed as a factor, she included, after generating get in touch with on Twitter. “annually later on we went for vodka and sausages and mentioned comic books,” she produces about Kickstarter. “woman things.”