Immortalize yourself in fiction and help a sick kid

Andrea is helping someone she bought a chair from raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society; specifically, a FOUR-YEAR OLD KID SICK WITH LEUKEMIA. So if you donate money, Andrea will write you into her next book.

If you go to Laurie’s fundraising page and pledge at least $50, sending me your email receipt, I’ll use your first name for a minor character in my next book. If you pledge at least $150, I’ll use your first name along with a personal detail, selected by you. For example, if your name is John-John and you have a mole shaped like a pineapple, I will write, “John-John, who had a mole shaped like a pineapple, waved to us from across the street” so you’re recognizable to yourself in the story. If you pledge at least $300, I’ll put in your full name along with a personal detail in the form of a character. The offers will stand until Laurie’s met her goal (there are only so many names I can drop into a story until the story’s just a list of names). I mean, I know I’m not even close to being a big name or author, so it’s not like I can send out signed panties or baggies of clippings from next time I go in for a haircut, but I figure being able to find yourself in publishable form might be fun, even if you don’t particularly like my work or care about me. You’ll be able to take someone you’re trying to get to sleep with you into Barnes and Noble, flip to your page, and say, “Hey, this character was written for me.”

All donations $50 or over will also get thanked in the back of the book by full name and city. And even if Laurie makes it to $3200 and the character naming option is gone, and even if you can’t afford $50 but you can do $5, please donate anyway, just because.

Full details here.