internet powers, activate!

This was posted by a couple friends of mine. I'm signal-boosting:

Originally posted by kythryne at internet powers, activate!

Okay, people. I need you to take this viral, and fast.

We know someone in upstate New York who needs a good custody lawyer ASAP. I'm not at liberty to go into details publicly, but this woman is very afraid that her abusive boyfriend is going to get sole custody of her young child. She's presently being represented by a court-assigned lawyer who doesn't seem to care about the case, and she has very few resources left at this point. Her next hearing is on Thursday.

If you know a good lawyer in New York State who might be willing to take this case for a low fee or pro bono, or at least offer her advice or support, please let me know. If you don't know anyone, please repost this far and wide. As a mother and an abuse survivor, it makes me absolutely sick to my stomach to contemplate a child being left in the hands of an abuser.

I can be reached at kythryne@gmail.com if you have any leads or want to help.

The internet can work miracles. Let's go.

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(Posting this 'cause the author asked. She's also having a contest in which posting this can win you a free copy of the book, but I'm not entering the contest.)

Check out the trailer for Feed & Deadline.

I'm one of those people who has been waiting to read the first one until the second one was available. It's available! (And Feed is third in my to-read pile, but not because it's less exciting. Just the other two belong to other people so I wanted to finish 'em. Un Lun Dun was excellent, by the way.)

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James, playing Minecraft, a game he's been explaining the wacky rules of to me for months, a little at a time: "I bet you didn't know ladders make an excellent underwater breathing apparatus."

Me: "Well, they're lava-repellent, so why wouldn't they be waterproof?"

Him: "Exactly. See, now that's the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that's useful when the box is made of crazy."