Dr. Susan Kaye Quinn, Speculative Fiction Author and Payload Coordinator for Writers on the Moon
COUNTDOWN TO LAUNCH Monday January 8th, 2:18am EST IMPORTANT: The launch is in the early hours of Monday Jan 8th, 2:18am EST! Pre-launch livestream starts 1:30am. UPDATED: NEW DISCORD INVITE LINK — Join us for the Launch Party on Monday! HOW TO WATCH THE LAUNCH… Read More »How to Watch the Launch
Sue’s Goal for the Website It’s always surprising to me how much can change in just a couple years — we think the internet is eternal but it’s much closer to ephemeral. Links break, pages go down, books get delisted, life circumstances change: name changes,… Read More »Animation of our ride to the Moon: ULA’s Vulcan Centaur
All the Stories are Uploaded (including Stowaways!) I have some pre-launch thoughts to share, plus a few more updates to make to the website, but I’m T-I-R-E-D so that will have to wait until tomorrow’s update! AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT AUTHORS ALERT YOUR STOWAWAYS! I noticed lots… Read More »Stories Behind the Stories COMPLETE
Writers on the Moon has a BRAND NEW Discord channel! For those not familiar with Discord, it’s a Slack-like forum where you have different channels for text-based discussion, but you also have the ability to voice/video chat and stream. I set it up so we… Read More »Writers on the Moon on DISCORD
Writers on the Moon listed on DHL Moonbox’s Wikipedia page. AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT Writers on the Moon, Manifest #16-30 The Stories Behind the Stories for Manifest authors #16-30 are live on the website. What I love about these stories is they’re all unique, just like the authors… Read More »Author Spotlight: Manifest #16-30
It looks like we’re finally go for launch… It’s looking really good for Peregrine Mission One (carrying our payload on the DHL Moonbox!) to launch on Jan 8th! If we miss that launch window for any reason, there are additional launch windows on the 9th,… Read More »COUNTDOWN TO LAUNCH: Jan 8th, 2024
Sue was invited to guest post about the Writers on the Moon project on Astrobotic’s blog. The post featured Chang’e Holding the Moon by Ambrose Beaulieu, one of our official stowaways! Read the Guest Post on Astrobotic’s Blog
Time to ship our Writers on the Moon payload to Astrobotic! Contents of the Writers on the Moon Time Capsule: Moonchip (hexagonal metal medallion with WOTM logo and website), tiny paper book with description of our project, and two duplicate SDcards (dime for scale). We’d designed… Read More »Shipping the Payload to Astrobotic!
How we made the hexagonal metal medallion we’ve dubbed the MoonChip… Once the excitement of setting up the Writers on the Moon website and project was past, I began to think of all the ways it go could wrong. The SDcard could be damaged by radiation.… Read More »Making the MoonChip
A mini-book describing Writers on the Moon in our payload… Originally, my thought was to send a mini-paper book listing all the authors participating in Writers on the Moon. That turned out to be technically challenging when we expanded to take 125 authors, plus I… Read More »Making the Mini-Book