Authors + EBay = creative fund raising
The clever people at UK charity Autism Speaks have come up with a great fund raising idea. Seventeen authors, including Louis de Bernieres, Jodi Picoult and Darren Shan, have agreed to participate in an EBay auction, with the winning bidder for each author guaranteed to become a character in their next novel. Hot bidding for Darren Shan saw 27 bids raise ₤1020. Somebody called Caroline is about to meet a grisly end in his next Demonata title, due to be published in October.
World Autism Awareness Day was marked on April 2.
