Jay deserves more than I can afford, but I hope that this token adds to the momentum of good-will, and leads to the best possible resolution.

Because Seanan said to :-)

Hey Jay, I miss you. It's been a long time since WotF. Get better. Bob

I wish it could be more. Say Hi to your dad for me.

Jay, keep your eye on the mountain. Living is to have and follow a purpose so keep your purpose in place to keep writing. You probably don't remember me. I directed you to your seat along with your family back when you won the Writers of the Future event. We were at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Take care.

In under the wire, but hoping this little bit helps.

Fuck cancer!

The Board of Directors voted unanimously at the Feb 4 Annual General Meeting to contribute to this cause. Best of luck, Jay!

We're with you, and hoping for the best.

Good luck from a damp corner of the UK.

Jay has given me so much with his writing. I only wish I could give more! Love, and prayers, and bells and spoons!

For Jay, Bronwyn and SCIENCE!

As they say over here in Korea, "??!" ("Fighting!") Hope this helps.

Jay Lake: The Musical just has to happen. It will, it will happen someday. In the meantime, I hope you get the rest you need, and get better.

Glad to know that so many people care so deeply. Friendship is essential to the soul.

Good luck!

Feel the love, Jay! You go!

Let's get this thing over 50K!

Best wishes to you!

Truly hoping for the best for you.

Good luck.

Fuck cancer!

Thank you so much for being awesome. I wish I could do more

Hugs.

Wish I could do more.

Our family and the PWS community is sending positive, prayerful, joyous wishes of strength and healing to you.

Good luck, here's hoping we get many more stories from you.

We need those Klingon pick-up lines and so I'm skipping a month's worth of morning coffees to add another $100.00. GO JAY. KICK CANCER'S POSTERIOR.

God Bless You.

Jay, hoping the sequencing gives you some hope. I have finished my chemo and radiation treatment and so far it looks like the cancer has been beaten back at the end of my colon, yes I had anal cancer, which I just call colon cancer in polite society as by reactions I have received the word 'anal' is not quite pc apparently or it could be the reaction to the evil specter of cancer. ( I am smiling as I write that) Well I have used your battle cry of "Fuck Cancer" a lot since I was diagnosed last September. I shall battle on as will you. Every little bit helps, so here's mine. Page

Jay, Seriously, I just heard about this from HH. Tell your Portland and Writer Friends that there is a big bad world out here that can be used for Fund Raising purposes. You have way exceeded your goal but my guess is there are so many people who love you that still need to know about this. Do you care if I pass this on to distribution list so everyone can still give you might want to? Ann

Good luck Jay!

Prayers and energy are with you.

Jay, your journey is an epic tale of courage and inspiration for so many. God speed.

I sincerely hope this will get some results. Jay, you've suffered enough already.

Hey, I don't need to buy any books in February!

Thanks Jay! Love your books!

I hope this little bit helps. My mom went through breast cancer in the 80's and survived. I was in high school at the time and have vivid memories of driving her to chemo. Take care, Kevin Landreneau

Best of luck, Jay.

Another drop added to the ocean of caring and concern.

Jay, I hope that the test will help right this horrible, horrible wrong. I know this isn't much, but wanted to do something. Sending good thoughts and hopes your way. *hugs* Your Master Class-mate, Lisa Silverthorne

Always sending positive thoughts your way.

Even a small chance is better than no chance. Here's to magic.

Good luck, Jay...

Jay, our prayers go with you. I have enjoyed your wonderful books, full of imagination and hope. Get better.

Best of luck and fuck cancer!

Go, go, Gadget Jay! You are an inspiration to the rest of us.

Good luck Jay.

Best of luck, always. I hope the sequencing provides new and useful information.

Hope.

God's blessings on Jay Lake!

Good luck, Jay!

I'm back because I really want to see The Child's video.

Hang in there, kiddo! You mean plenty to lots of people.

With all my best wishes and hopes.

Sorry to hear about your illness -- Corinthia and Arcadia will always know you through your writing, as they become old enough to read your work, and see their characters in your stories. Thanks for the stories Helen Umberger

Kick !@#^%&* Cancer's ass with science!

F**k cancer, Jay. May this prove to be the treatment you need.

Hey, Jay. I am one of the millions of people you've met face-to-face once and have forgotten. :) When you were GOH at FenCon, I think we did dinner or lunch. I was one face in a large crowd. But it was a blast. I met the guy who's doing your documentary just last weekend at Hep Cat Writer's retreat in Oklahoma. He was leaving right after the retreat to head up there. I've got a terrible cold right now, and it's done a number on my memory -- for the life of me I can't remember his name. Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing the film. I saw him shoot some stuff at the retreat, and man, he's really freaking good. Best wishes, sir. I know it's only $50, but it's all I can afford to give. Yours truly, Sam

Godspeed. You have a tough road in front of you.

Hi! I found out about your sequencing project from Howard Taylor, Seanan McGuire, and Tamora Pierce. I think it's kind of awesome to be able to sequence your genes and I hope it helps the doctors figure out a way to treat your cancer. Best wishes!

Good luck!

The very best if luck from a starship sofanaught

Best wishes

Go get em Jay!

Jay, you know how much of an inspiration you are to me, and to countless others. I wish I could donate more right now, but hopefully even this little bit helps. Sending good healing thoughts and love to you and the whole Lake clan.

Cancer, this person you may NOT have!

Jay, hope you get the treatment you need, that it will help and that you're well soon. You're an asset to the SF&F community. Dee

Hi Jay!

Still sorry about the "Calamity" editing snafu (I had a poor grasp of the time required and didn't know how to format my input so it would be maximally useful on your end). If "Jay, the Musical!" is unlocked, you have a professional-level stage manager ready to take on the project.

Just a drop in the bucket, but each drop is a toast - to your health, and to this amazing contribution to science. With love. xoxox

Hoping that affection, support, and respect from someone you have never met ( but who has read most of your works) will do you some good. But sending along a little cash as a backup plan.

Best of luck.

Good luck!

Sorry I'm so late to the party--praying hard for good news!

I know it isn't much, but I hope it helps.

Take care, Jay!

For Jay! For Whimsy! For Science!

Member of St. Michael and All Angels Choir. With love and encouragement to Jay and Sarah.

Good luck, Jay!

A man who has friends is a rich man indeed.

Keep up the fight!

God Bless, wish it could be more.

C'mon, Jay--let's kick cancer's ass!

Love your stories, Jay. Fight on!

I hope you heal. My grandfather is dealing with his fourth bout of cancer(thankfully, it's a leukemia they have a pill for). So I fully understand the TERROR that this unknown is

Good luck!

I can't give much, but had to give some. Wish you the best.

Dear Jay, hang in there and make this happen! The fantastic thing about whole genome sequencing is that at least it can make some sense of all the potential clinical trials out there, and help you determine which you may want to try to participate in. Wish my donation could be more, but I'm currently in the same position with breast cancer, and am determined to try sequencing too. I can only hope I have as many friends as you have! So stay strong, and keep fighting!

I like Jay's work, and Jay himself seems like a good dude.

I work with genome sequencing. Good luck! And tell the guys at your sequencing core to step on it!

Need you on the planet.

I wish it could be more. As I am still just a teaching intern (read: unpaid intern) I have very little in my pocket. I only wanted to let you know that I care very much and wish the best for your future health and well-being.

Good luck Jay!

I always enjoy seeing Jay at Worldcons and would like that to continue. Positive thoughts from an expat fan in Amsterdam NL.

Hang in there and good luck!

Hope this beats the chemo torture you've endured to date. Best wishes and hope you kick the C's ass, Chris

Here’s a little support for great books, a great person (I dare trust Howard on that) and the chance of finding a Plasma Cannon with that Ominous Humm against cancer.

We love you Jay!!

Jay has been very gracious to me whenever we've met, even Tuckerized me in Madness of Flowers after I did him a small favor. I am happy to help Jay and his family with their medical expenses. Excuse me, now I have to run out and buy a copy of Kalimpura so I can keep up with Green.

Just a small and inadequate repayment for your having made the world a better, or at least a more entertaining, place!

With all my love.

i never know what to say on comment boxes so ill keep it simple. thank you for fighting the good fight.

A drop more in the ocean.

My toddler says he wants your hat, Jay. Seriously, you are loved. Our hopes and best wishes with you, always.

Get well!

Hang in there, Jay. M

Best of luck Jay!

For Science!

Dear Jay, Your blog is courageous. Sharing your journey with others helps shed needed light on the disease. My thoughts and prayers are with you! We need more of your fiction to help us dream the impossible. Get well soon! Fondly, Jennifer Persson President Garden State Speculative Fiction Writers

Best wishes to Jay.

I hope everything goes well!

Wishing you all the best.

Don't have a lot to spare this month, but approve of the cause.

good luck!

So sorry about the SNAFU re your PayPal payments, Jay. Glad we could sort it out quickly to keep your fundraising going.

We are so sorry for the mistake that led to your account limitation. Thanks for letting us know and we are glad we could get it fixed quickly. Our apologies once again. It's a great cause and we wish you all the best. Have a great weekend. From the folks at PayPal

Best of luck!

This is for fighting cancer. Fight hard.

This is the first time I've ever been able to do anything toward helping an author whom I read and admire survive a life-threatening illness. I hope and pray that Jay survives his bout with cancer and goes on to write more (much more!) wonderful fiction which I will be certain to purchase, read and, undoubtably enjoy.

Best of luck.

Best of Luck!

You're in my thoughts. Good luck!

I wish it was more but I'm so glad to see others have given so much. It's a privilege to call you my friend and my peer. Richest blessings on you and thank you for sharing your struggle and your strength with us all!

Sorry it's so little, but glad the total is so big! Hope you kick those tumors' intrusive asses.

Best wishes.

Pulling for you Jay! - maybe we can get Paul Cornell to sing again...

Best wishes, Jay. You're in my thoughts and, if anyone listens, my prayers.

I really want to see somebody beat this problem with a stick and come out smiling.

The universe wants you to get better, Jay, and so do I.

Wishing you a full recovery, and all the best. Very sorry again for the inconvenience on your PayPal account.

It is amazing to see so many awesome people donate! Here is my small contribution :)

In memory of my grandfather, passed away of colon cancer in 2010. Luck be with you.

Wishing you and yours all the best.

Persevere

I came back from stage 3 colon cancer in 2009. We're pulling for you here in North Carolina.

I'm wishing Jay the best of luck and all possible good wishes. I really hope this works out for him and I really hope that the treatment can be as comfortable and un-awful as possible. Many many people are thinking of him.

Good luck.

Wishing you the very best!

I like whimsy. I hate cancer. Here's my money!

Best wishes.

Kick cancer's ass, Jay! You were one of the first writers to encourage me and inspire me. Keep up the good work.

Best of luck with everything, Jay!

Good luck! Do it for <i>Science!</i>

Sequence a Sci-Fi Author? Sounds like a better cause than a Hugo Membership, I'm in.

Take courage, Jay.

I couldn't stand it. Needed to unlock Howard Tayler. So here's another donation!!!!

Hi from London- wish I could give more but every little helps

Bon courage.

Best of luck mate, thinking of you. And may there be much cheese in your future.

Best of luck to you in your treatment. I hope you can find peace on the bad days.

Best of luck--we're rooting for you!

It's not the same as eating pizza with you, or riding somewhere with you, or just being with you, but we're giving this because we hope to be able to do all these things -- and more -- with you for a very long time. Love, Gary & Michael

Good luck.

When this is done, can we clone him, or just the tumor?

We care here too in the UK Jay

This is a wonderful way to organize help. Thanks to those who made it possible.

Fingers X-d this helps!

KILL THE F&%*ER! IDENTIFY THE SMEGGER AND GIVE IT BOTH BARRELS! CHARGE!!!!! Ahem. Here's hoping you identify the beast in plenty of time for Jay, AND THEN KILL IT WITH FIRE! AND RADIATION! AND FIRE!

Good luck and God bless!!

Get well soon.

Just saw the video--we all love you, too!

Good luck

Jay, best wishes for easy healing. Jay's friends? There are not words enough to describe how wonderful you are!

Faith and prayer may or may not be your thing, but they are mine. I will add you to my prayers. Keep on fighting.

Fuck Cancer!

Here's hoping that good things come from teeny tiny little packages.

Bonne chance et prompt rétablissement.

Glad to help out Jay, and others in the future.

All of my Good Thoughts and prayers are with you, Jay.

Good luck!

Thanks Mary et al for doing this for Jay. So much love. I wonder if we can hit 35k???

My only hope is that one day we do not need to resort to fundraisers to save people's lives. That being said, this is one of the coolest fund drives I have ever seen.

Get well, please.

Love, light, and hope for you.

Best wishes Enjoyed your books You have very cool friends

Praying for you!

I've never had the opportunity to contribute to the sequencing of a science fiction writer before...

I wish Jay the best. We were on a panel together at Chicon and I didn't know about this.

Good luck, Jay!

get well

You guys are fantastic!

Happy to help such an awesome person. Happy sequencing, Jay. Crossing fingers for some serious success.

Love ya Jay!

Hope it works!

May this be the last tattoo you put in to keep score, and may it last you for many happy years. Fight on!

I love science. I love fiction. And I mega-loathe cancer. So take my money!

Wishing the best for you, Jay!

Best of luck

For all you have given the world, this is the world giving back.

Wish it could be more. I hope every bit helps, though.

Jay, let's show these tumors who's boss.

Your courage and humor in the face of such a horrible disease are inspiring. I'm pulling for you and yours.

I'm not organizing another anthology until you quit this cancer $hit, Jay!

Inspiring!

Best of luck to your health, you already have a blessing in your friends and I feel lucky to just be a witness.

Refered from Howard, with love. Lost my mom to cancer. Only wish I could help more.

Courage.

Best wishes for a safe, speedy recovery!

Good luck Jay. Any man with the gumption to wear those shirts can beat cancer. :-)

To be honest, I've never even heard of you before. I got sent here by a link from Schlock Mercenary. I've never read your books (though I plan to rectify that soon) and I've never really heard a mention about you in any of the books I have read. Hell, I'm unemployed. I can't really afford to give you what I'm giving. But I've felt helpless before. I've felt the need to find anything to fight what was making me feel that way. I realize I don't know you, but from what I've read about you so far from your friend, you're the kind of guy I'd want to get to know (even if it's from that author/reader distance). So, I hope this helps, even a little.

Thank you for trying. I hope it succeeds.

Glad to help

Good luck!

Good luck with all your efforts, Jay. :)

I really enjoyed Green. I'm looking forward to reading Endurance. I've heard of 3-D printers being used to create a replacement esophagus lining for someone with esophageal cancer. I wonder how close researchers are to doing that with the colon? http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/health/tissue-engineering-procedure-to-save-the-esophagus-feeds-effort-to-build-human-organs-647782/

Dear Jay, It was a delight to meet you at the Australian Worldcon and attend your roundtable session. I hope this treatment brings answers and hope and wish you all the best. Melinda from Australia

Good Luck!

For Science, care of Schlock Mercenary.

Good luck jay!

Get well. I'm buying your books. Say hi to Howard Taylor for me.

May your life be beautiful and full and love.

Happy to help.

Best wishes, Jay.

Good Luck and hope it works out.

I could only wish that something like this was available for my mother back in 1995/96. I'm glad to help out with such a worthy cause, especially if it may help others in the end.

Best wishes from a total stranger.

I have been following along on Jay's LiveJournal for years as he battles this thing, and I'm grateful to finally have some way to help. Go team Jay!

It was a pleasure talking with you at Locus years ago, Jay. I hope that you'll be around for awhile longer.

Wishing you and your family, health and happiness.

Go for the dermal plating and enhanced reflex package while you're at. And don't forget the thermal imaging... you know, the cheap 'naughty Sony' kind...

I see you've already made your goal and your stretch goal before I even realized this was going on! So I guess this is more to show support and wish you all the best.

As a geneticist by training, I find in amazing that this is even an option. Here's hoping it works.

Hope this helps!

I read your blog regularly, lost my dad when I was 12, and have relatives with colon cancer. Good luck.

Jay was ridiculously supportive of my writing when I first started sending stories out, and that encouragement had a big impact.

Thank you for putting this fundraiser together. So glad to be able to do something to help.

Best of luck, Jay! I hope to be reading your extraordinary stories for many more years. Namaste!

Wow. SF medicine...

Fingers crossed; we need all the good writers we can get.

best wishes for your recovery

Your story moves me. Period. Good luck.

Prompted by Mr Cornell's "rendition" of Wuthering Heights, but sent with my very best wishes.

Good Luck

Science rocks. I hope it can help this time.

Jay! Keep on writing, keep on being!

I hope, you get better.

Good luck.

We seek victory.

Such a good cause. Good luck and best wishes, Ed

My mom died of cancer. I hope this guy doesn't.

Kicking cancer's ass is a goal I will always get behind.

good luck keep on ticking

My thoughts are with you

It is the hat.

Good luck, Jay. Thank you for bringing Green into my life.

It's not much, but I hope it helps.

I would have liked to donate more but I live on a limited income and can only give so much. I hope what I give will help anyways and I hope you get better.

We're not done. Not by a long way.

Good luck, Jay!