My piece is entitled Ascension Day; it's a very short science fiction story. This is a great venture and well worth supporting, I'd say. The book will cost you all of 59 New Pence...
When I began my student days, and provided you weren't too choosy, you could just get a pint for 59p. But that was 26 years ago...
More information:
http://www.hhbooks.org/?page_id=7
Sweet! Annoyingly, the website doesn't say what the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital actually is -- and why they need our support -- for us out-of-towners. Not that I'm suggesting one shouldn't donate to a children's hospital, but it's just odd that there is quite literally NOTHING about the cause on the book's website. Ah well. I'll be buying it anyway. :-)
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It's a very well known institution in the UK (obviously not elsewhere) which is probably why they didn't feel the need to say what it actually is or does. Quoting from Wikipedia:
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It's often in the news, or featured in documentaries about childhood illness. In any case, a good cause, as I'm sure you'll agree.
Awesome. Yes, that's pretty high on the good-cause-o-meter. :-)
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