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The Good (never mind the bad and the ugly)

Yesterday I was feeling glum about the whole romance rioting world. (Romancelandia is a society, anyway. . . Okay, a town maybe. A village, all right?)

Then I opened an email reminding me that it’s just about time for the auction. That’s the ticket, find the good news. In less than five minutes I found four examples of romance writers doing good in the real world.

SO THERE, noisy unpleasant woman in the restaurant. (and some might add, in your face, blind item gossip. Not me though.)

TAKE THAT, hideous fights about nothing important. (e.g. blogs that go on about how horrible RT was or how anyone offended by RT should be taken out and stripped of her romance writer credentials).

Enough with the bad & silly.

Onto the fine & dandy Romance Writers do:

1. Brenda Novak’s auction of course.

2. The sale of this book— Profits donated to the Cincinnati Battered Women’s Shelter.

3. Romance Unleashed’s Unleash Your Story, the upcoming write-a-thon to aid research into cystic fibrosis (Next September. Be there. I’ll remind you, so don’t worry about missing it.)

4. “Readers for Life” Literacy event, the annual book-signing open to the public at RWA (July 30 in San Francisco this year). It happens every year and it is boring to go on about something so established. Even RWA doesn’t seem to toot its own horn about the sale—I can’t find a damned official link for this year’s event. Here’s Christina Dodd’s link. But listen, that book-sale raises thousands for literacy—more than half a million dollars over the years. Not so shabby.