Some very cool teen book bloggers started this charity site:  PAYA: Bringing (More) YA to PA.  They’re trying to collect young adult books and raise money to help the severely underfunded Pennsylvania libraries.  You can check out the book drive page here.  But besides giving books, you can also GET something.  Everybody likes to get something, right?  I sure do.  It’s why I took such a big bite of that Jell-O brain that turned out to be full of Vodka that one time, and I don’t even like Jell-O (or Vodka).

How do you GET something and what can you get?  You can check out the PAYA auction page, where you can bid on signed books, craft items, or chapter critiques from published authors.   Some of these critiques are still super cheap, starting at only $5 or $10, which is an amazing deal, so now’s your chance to score a great critique for a very reasonable price while also helping out a library in need!

And yours truly is doing an auction.  I figured there were enough manuscript critiques, and I am surprisingly lacking in signed books, so I thought I’d do something different.  I’m donating a crocheted plush doll of any character of the winning bidder’s choice.  So whoever wins the auction picks a character–from books, movies, TV, their own work in progress, whatever–gives me some info about them, and I make the doll!  TADA!  So really this is your chance to get the plushie of a character you’ve always wished you had, but didn’t, whether it’s your own MC or someone else’s. ;)  The auction ends November 7th, and I will have the doll finished by December 1st, in plenty of time for Christmas.

Some samples of dolls I’ve made for The Rise of Renegade X:

And the tenth Dr. from Dr. Who:

The auction is up to $15 last time I checked–go bid! ^____^