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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

mid-afternoon

Help Animals & Honor a cool chick - Edith Layton Memorial giveaway, auction and fundraiser

Shamelessly & lovingly copied from the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books blog.  In memory of Edith Layton, Jane and I are hosting a fundraiser/auction/giveaway to benefit the North Shore Animal League. Layton’s daughter Susie Felber told me that while her mother was very quiet about her battle with ovarian cancer, she was not at all shy about “her insane love of animals,” and so the family decided any memorial contributions should be directed to the NSAL.  With some help from friends and authors, we’re putting together a three part effort.

If you like romance novels, saving animals, remembering cool people in a way that would make them happy, please click on the above paragraph to find out how you can win some books, donate to the North Shore Animal League (or pet charity of your choice) in Edith Layton’s name, and find out how you can win the eBay auction for the upcoming bound anthology, Must Love Hellhounds, by, among others, Charlaine Harris (whose anthology contribution is the next installment of the Sookie Stackhouse series, on which HBO’s True Blood is based), a gift basket by the author of Dark Slayer, and a bound galley of Nora Roberts’ next book.  I think Edith Layton would be thrilled that the North Shore Animal League is benefitting from the auction & raffle by those who loved and admired her.  I think it’ll also help the Felber family, knowing that even though their mom is gone, her legacy of loving & supporting the North Shore Animal League lives on.

So, go check out the full details at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books.  And while you’re there, check out the site (and check out Dear Author, too, because they’re in on this SBTB) because it’s pretty entertaining, even for a non-romance novel reader like myself.  Since I’ve never really given any romance novels a shot since perhaps reading one Harlequin romance novel as a kid, I figure I could honor Edith’s memory by checking out one of her novels.  I know that her kids are awesome writers, so it stands to reason, their mom was, too.  Plus, if I love it, it gives me LOTS of new books to read, because the woman was prolific.  When she wasn’t helping save animals and spending time with her grandkids, she must’ve been writing constantly.