My friend, Maggie, is at Clarion West this year. She just emailed me to ask me to pass this post on.

This morning someone came into the Clarion West house where we’re staying and stole four laptops, some bags, clothing, and possibly other items.

Of course, these are our lives, especially right now.

We are all okay, and the house is secure, even more so now, but I was like to ask the SFF community for help.

Those who lost their laptops will not be able to replace these without detriment to their financial situation. These are essential for our writing, particularly over the next four weeks.

If you would like to help donate laptops or funds to those students who had their laptops stolen, please contact Leslie or Neile at info@clarionwest.org. More donation information may be forthcoming.

Thank you.

Please feel free to repost this and to link to Maggie’s orginal post.

Just in case anyone sees them:

One black Dell Inspiron 1520.
One Silver colored Sager with a 17″ screen.
One Silver/red Dell XPSm1710,
One Sony Vaio Sz780

I just talked to Mom. Grandma is out of surgery with no problems. She’s running a slight temperature, but the doctor was talking about moving her out of ICU and to a room this afternoon. She’s sleeping now, so I’ll go over to visit later.

Mom just called from the hospital. One of the staples didn’t take, so they are going to have to send Grandma back in to surgery.