Write Hope

There's no words, really, to cover what's happened in Japan.  I could try — words like horrific, heart-rending, and tragic come to mind — but they're just words, black dots on a computer screen, typed from the comfort of a warm, safe office.  I look at the pictures in the news and then at those words and they are too clean and sterile to even think about using.  I can't imagine what's like to see those scenes close up, or worse yet, to have been a child and lived them.

Over at Write Hope, a group of kidlit authors have banded together to try to change those words into something more promising.  They are running an auction with wonderful prizes — books, manuscript critiques, consults with agents — and all proceeds will be donated to Save the Children/Japan. I'm donating a Book Club in a Bag — up to 10 copies of Evenfall, cookies, a reusable cloth bag, and the chance to Skype with me. (If you are within an hour of where I live, I'll come to your book club in person.) Items are up for only 72 hours, so keep checking back. (My donation is item number four today.) Please help me spread the news — and help change those words into a more positive future for the tens of thousands of children who were affected.