Peter S Beagle, author of “The Last Unicorn,” is in dire need! Here are three ways you can help.

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happenstancewriter:

princessnijireiki:

shwetanarayan:

aberrant-eyes:

… l trouble – trouble severe enough so that, according to his friend Adrienne Leigh, it’s currently difficult for him to buy groceries.

In a nutshell, Beagle was the victim of a scammer. As a result of this, Beagle is both broke and embroiled in an expensive lawsuit. Here are three ways you can help.

SHORT-TERM: Give a birthday gift directly to Peter Beagle via his paypal. If you’re known to me, contact me directly for Beagle’s email address (you can email me, or just leave a message in the comments asking me to email you; if you do that, make sure you comment using your real email address!); or you can go to Adrienne Leigh on Twitter and DM her for the email address.

These birthday gifts can be used by Peter Beagle for his household’s immediate day to day needs. (And yes, his birthday is this week!) Please say “happy birthday!” in the Paypal message area.

LONG-TERM:
Go to the Support Peter Beagle website and use the button there to contribute to a fund to help pay for Peter Beagle’s legal costs.

BUY THE HUMBLE BUNDLE!
Peter Beagle has curated a Humble Bumble of unicorn fiction, called “Save the Unicorns.” You can pay as little as $1 to get a ton of novels to read, and support Peter Beagle at the same time! Important: In “choose where your money goes,” pick 100% Tachyon Press. Peter Beagle will get royalties and such from Tachyon for these Humble Bumble sales.

To be kept up-to-date on Peter Beagle news, follow @RealPeterBeagle on Twitter.

I’ve only met him a couple times but Peter Beagle is a lovely guy as well as one of the first writers to open my head up and let the air in so I could see possibilities

so, boooost!

& if you can afford to buy individual books, tachyon has 10 for sale here including some new books, so y’know if you’ve been wishing he’d written recent stuff you’re in luck :) Default pricing’s for trade paperbacks, go to an individual book’s page for different formats.

A reminder also that— unfortunately, as part of the scamming via Conlan Press— Peter is not receiving proceeds from their publications or licensing deals, including the Netflix deal or DVDs/BluRays of “The Last Unicorn,” or TLU merch being sold anywhere, including at ThinkGeek. (More info at his Facebook here; the other “Peter S. Beagle” page is run by the folks who scammed him.)

So if you are looking for merchandise related to his work as gifts or for yourself, I would suggest direct donations/Tachyon Press purchases (including signed books!), or that combined with fanmade products, at least for the time being. Redbubble isn’t paying him, but it’s not bolstering the people robbing him, either; but if you’re spending money on something he made that you love or that has helped you, if you have it to spare, please send some his way, too.

@zooophagous

The full legal complaint is available to view here, if anyone is wondering exactly how deep this awful awful rabbit hole goes.

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