My friend, Maggie, is at Clarion West this year. She just emailed me to ask me to pass this post on.
This morning someone came into the Clarion West house where we’re staying and stole four laptops, some bags, clothing, and possibly other items.
Of course, these are our lives, especially right now.
We are all okay, and the house is secure, even more so now, but I was like to ask the SFF community for help.
Those who lost their laptops will not be able to replace these without detriment to their financial situation. These are essential for our writing, particularly over the next four weeks.
If you would like to help donate laptops or funds to those students who had their laptops stolen, please contact Leslie or Neile at [email protected]. More donation information may be forthcoming.
Thank you.
Please feel free to repost this and to link to Maggie’s orginal post.
Just in case anyone sees them:
One black Dell Inspiron 1520.
One Silver colored Sager with a 17″ screen.
One Silver/red Dell XPSm1710,
One Sony Vaio Sz780
Where is Clarion West? And where is the nearest pawn shop? Has that been checked? What about a local flea market this weekend?
God, hopefully any important data on their laptops was backed up =/
Most people don’t do back-ups of their data. 🙁 I don’t think (from what I’ve read on Cherie M. Priest’s blog and others ’round the blogosphere) is that these folks had their data backed up either.
What a crappy thing to happen to people who are trying to better themselves (and their craft).
It’s in Seattle. I’m sure they’ve contacted the police.