A Bunch of Stuff Including Smart Things and Fanfic

Lets start with Brenda Novak's charity auction fundraiser for diabetes research. Among the many many things that are being auctioned off are fiction critiques of varying lengths by 98 authors including yours truly, 60 agents, and 50 editors. Plus there are all kinds of other goodies from signed books to fine crystal. This is a great fundraiser and its a cause that I believe in both in the abstract and the concrete. My grandmother, who did the bulk of the work of raising me was killed by a hea...