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Every quarter I donate 10% of my royalties from my novels to non-profits that work in areas related to the themes in the books. Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of #Infomocracy last quarter I just donated $132(+processing fees, my shout) to @AccountLab https://www.accountabilitylab.org/
You can read more about why I do this and why I chose @AccountLab for Infomocracy here: https://www.tor.com/2016/04/28/engaging-in-the-democratic-process-with-infomocracy/
Thanks to everyone who bought NULL STATES in the last quarter, I'm donating $31 to @institute_si ; I rounded it up to 50 euros because, I dunno, feels like any of us could become stateless at any moment, better chip in while I can https://www.institutesi.org/
You can read more about that choice here: https://www.tor.com/2017/08/07/statelessness-is-a-problem-we-created-and-one-we-can-solve/
And, thanks to everyone who bought a copy of STATE TECTONICS over the past quarter, I contributed $12 to @globalvoices; again, I rounded it up to $50 because we so desperately need grassroots reporting right now. https://globalvoices.org/
And here is what I wrote about that choice: https://www.tor.com/2018/07/30/malka-older-state-tectonics-and-the-internets-potential-for-good/
I feel so fortunate to be able to earn (some/most of) a living by writing, and so fortunate that I can support causes I care about. But mostly I do these donations because I want to root my books in the real world that they come from.
I hope that reading my books will impact on your imagination about the future and your ways of thinking about the present. But I also want you to know that people are right now working on the issues that my characters struggle with, and by buying my books you contribute to that.
