A few quick things

[cleolinda]

theredpanther on a benefit in New Orleans for the girl who was assaulted: "There's a benefit to raise money for Heather's medical bills: This next Thursday night, April 27th, at the Whirling Dervish, 1135 Decatur St in the French Quarter. Local stores have donated goods for raffles, etc. There will also be a paypal account set up for her, which will be accessible there so people may make direct donations."

I'm also looking for a good national domestic abuse charity and/or women's shelter those who are interested can support, if anyone knows one. I know of a local one, and I'll post that as well. I'm just trying to make sure I don't direct people towards the shelter equivalent of the Red Cross: big name, big overhead, big mismanagement.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden: "Want to strike a blow against scam agents? Link to the 20 Worst Agents list. While you're at it, link to Writer Beware and Preditors and Editors. You could even link to Everything you wanted to know about literary agents and On the getting of agents. But the 20 Worst Agents list—that's the important one."

Mmm, copypaste. In Semagic, you can just C&P those bad boys right in there, html formatting and all.

sunshine95, regarding the Star Wars fanfic on Amazon: "BAHLEETED!: 'Thank you for your interest in Another Hope. The book has been removed from the Books in Print database and will be removed from book distribution channels effective Tuesday, April 24, 2006.'" Yeah, I thought she'd crack by the end of the day--I figured, if Darth Junction didn't get her, his apprentice Darth Ternet would. Less powerful, yeah, but the dude has no mercy.

Comments

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

Darth Ternet.

Hee...

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting more of the Heather information. It's such a scary, and scarily frequent, story.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

I have worked for a couple of publishers as an editor. I worked my way up at Del Rey Books. I have had to deal with these sorts of "agents" a lot and I can tell you that they do take up my time. Long enough for me to put the submission back in the envelope and put in a "polite" form letter that if they handed it to the author the author would KNOW how far they are being screwed. Best had to be the agency that kept sending stuff for Lester Del Rey. I got permission from legal to put in "We have consulted with Lester on our ouija board and he has decided to pass."

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thanks for posting the Star Wars thing! I totally missed that!

[finniscs.livejournal.com]

I dont know much about these folks but since I had just read an article on them and then looked up the site right before I read your post I thought Id send along the link:

http://www.voicesandfaces.org/

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Check out this comment (http://dsnight.livejournal.com/139294.html) that was posted at the bottom of the ML thread to see what a class operation Bauer runs.

[sorchar.livejournal.com]

Heh! That didn't take long. Hurray for fannish outrage.

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I know someone who downloaded the free .pdf of that Sw thing, just to share the badness. Let me know if you want a copy.

[kid-lit-fan.livejournal.com]

if Darth Junction didn't get her, his apprentice Darth Ternet would.
I really want to send you chocolate, now.

[evilsimon.livejournal.com]

if Darth Junction didn't get her, his apprentice Darth Ternet would. Less powerful, yeah, but the dude has no mercy.

♥

Now I should like to see a faceoff between said Darths. In a purely hypothetical fashion, of course, but really.

Small update

[onyx-noir.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you've looked at the hamlethunt community yet today, but apparently the guy they're looking for has been on line. He not only updated his livejournal, he took a picture of himself holding up a sign that says 4/22/06 YOU LOSE!

Grrrrr.

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

HEE. I might have to add Darth Junction and Darth Ternet to the Sith Lord Meme (http://memegen.net/viewmeme.pl?un=foresthouse&meme=1074963982) I made a while ago. :)

[ravennoir.livejournal.com]

I was curious and thinking about this today.Whatever happened with the guy who was said to have beaten up a goth girl at Convergence,in New Orleans? What happened, did they ever catch him? Was he proved guilty or not?