stillsostrange

My author's copies have landed! Everyone who has already sent me a donation receipt, your book will be in the mail tomorrow or Wednesday.

If anyone else was waiting for more immediate gratification, now is the time. Donate $8.00 to Planned Parenthood and email me a copy of the receipt. I will then send you a signed copy of Kingdoms of Dust. The book won't be released in stores for another two weeks.

jimhines has an excellent post on sexual harassment today, including links about where to report harassment in SF/F circles and the Backup Project.

If you are being harassed at a con or other event where I'm in attendance, please feel free to grab me for backup. I'm pretty terrible when it comes to confrontation, but I am more than happy to escort anyone out of an unpleasant situation, or help find security, or just hang out and glare until the dickbag in question goes away.

"Penalty for lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14 (Penal code, Section 188): 3, 6 or 8 years. Possible penalty for lewd and lascivious acts on your own child under 14 (1203.066): probation."

"Penalty for continuous sexual abuse of a child under 14 (288.5): 6, 12, or 16 years. Possible penalty for continuous sexual abuse of your own child under 14 (1203.066): probation."

Raping other people's children is bad. Raping your own children is not as bad. Incest loopholes such as these imply that children are property, whose parents can do with them as they please--effectively encouraging child molestors to breed their own victims. California law carries a higher penalty for dogfighting than for repeatedly raping your own children.

If this disgusts you and makes you want to do something, visit the National Association to Protect Children and find out how you can help. (If this doesn't disgust you, I suggest you remove yourself from the gene pool as soon as possible.)

PROTECT has already defeated incest exception laws in three states, as well as generally doing whatever they can to keep children safe from the very real monsters in the world. These are not monsters that will go away if you turn on the light or hide under your blankets.