A quick word.

I am a writer. As part of my commitment to writing, I participate in Script Frenzy and NaNoWriMo each year. Please consider donating to support the programs the Office of Letters and Light run!

One really easy way to do that is to use GoodSearch. Each search raises money for the charity you specify!

Another way is to sponsor me. :)

For NaNoWriMo, I write Young Adult novels about teens with disabilities. This year, I'm writing the third book in a series.

The Möbius Strip is about youth with disabilities who attend an alternative school in Calgary, Alberta.

Tumbling is about Talia, a 14yo autistic girl with tardive dyskinesia (a result of the antipsychotics her mother had her take for several years). She wants to be a competitive gymnast. She also has to testify in the trial of the man who sexually abused her. Tumbling was the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2008.

Relevé takes place two years after Tumbling. Shortly after her 16th birthday, Rosemarie's boyfriend dumps her. Then she fails her audition for the ballet corps she has wanted to be a part of for years. After nearly destroying her friendship with Talia, Rosemarie re-evaluates her life and dreams, finding new strength and self-understanding. Relevé is a complete rewrite of the novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo in 2006.

Pointillism follows Relevé. Tim is 17 and has unmedicated ADHD. He desperately wants to attend the Alberta College of Art & Design (ACAD) next year, but is having a horrible time getting his portfolio and application finished. He is Rosemarie's former boyfriend, and still has feelings for her. Pointillism is the novel I will be writing for NaNoWriMo in 2009.

This is not a blog entry, so you can't leave comments to it. I will be making a post about NaNoWriMo eventually and will link to it from here. Thank you!

Saturday, January 31, 2009

United Stand for Autistics

I belong to the Aspie Underground group on Facebook, and today is the United Stand for Autistics.

From the event page on Facebook:

What can you do to help?

Print out the campaign ads, which are available as the group photos, and post them in your general area.

If you are a college student, post them around your school.


The short version:

Scheduled to start a week or two after colleges resume sessions, this campaign consists of the following:

Raising awareness that anti-autism propaganda exists and is bad

Raising awareness of the search for a pre-natal test for autism and raising awareness that this is a problem

Encouraging people and companies to sever ties with organizations proliferating anti-autism propaganda and funding the eugenics threat

Note: This campaign does not take a stance on a cure in general.
Since I can't really do this offline, I thought I would do it online, here in my blog. So, here are the posters I liked the best:





Feel free to share. Hopefully, clicking on the images will take you to a larger image. If not, try going to the events page (linked above); they're all there in the photos section!

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