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TheAaron Allston Donation Fund is now set up so folks can contribute via PayPal. The email is gifts@aaronallston.info. And to reiterate:
This account will only be used for Aaron’s medical bills. This may include hospital and doctors bills, rehabilitation therapy, prescribed treatments and medications.
Please donate, if you can! Every little bit helps.
Aaron Allston’s medical bills from his recent bypass are rapidly mounting. And he is going to need to have yet another procedure on Thursday. UPDATE: Bob just posted that tomorrow’s surgery has been canceled on the basis of a more detailed scan.
Fans wishing to help out should check out the information on the info site.
Sorry to be so late, but I assure you, these are indeed all the books I read last month. If this has taught me nothing else, it’s that I read a lot less books than I thought I did… Continue reading “Dunc reads: Books from March”
We’ve enjoyed a rather happy day today. Aaron Allston sends a statement to everyone.
It’ll be a long road to recovery. Please keep sending up your prayers… vibes… thoughts… whatever.
NJOE is organizing a massive “Get Well” Project for Aaron Allston. They’re asking for everything to be in the mail to them by this upcoming Saturday!
In other news, Suvudu has a message from Aaron Allston’s family.
Although he’s had a bit of a rough time of it, we’re finally seeing some signs of improvement in Aaron Allston after his heart attack and subsequent bypass surgery.
His family and friends have established a LiveJournal community as a central place to update everyone on his condition. As his sister posted here:
I just spoke to our mother and she did report that he is doing better (but there’s a long way up) and one of the major things they’re facing right now is what you might call an outpouring of love in excess of the ability to process it all.
One of his good friends has posted all the details of all that’s happened in the past week. (You do not need to be a member of LiveJournal to read the page.)
As a reminder, there is an ongoing blood drive for those in the state of Texas. Each time someone donates, Aaron gets a credit on his bill. In addition, you get to save someone’s life. So please consider it if you live in the Lonestar State.
This poll has been up on the sidebar since Tuesday, but in the whirlwind of April Fools and everything else I forgot to actually make a post about it. In any case, now is your chance to click and pick what you thought of the first book of the Fate of the Jedi series, Aaron Allston’s Outcast. Register your vote – if you haven’t already – under the cut. Continue reading “Poll: Your thoughts on Outcast“
The bestseller lists for last week are up, and Fate of the Jedi: Outcast has made some waves: It’s #3 on both the New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly lists.
As you have probably already heard, a good friend of Club Jade, Aaron Allston, recently underwent bypass surgery. He’s currently in intensive care, but stable. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.
For those in the Dallas area, a blood donation sponsorship has been set up by his family.
UPDATE: There are several other donation centers in the Carter Blood Care system where you can donate blood. They’ll give you a coupon that you can then mail to the DelRey address to go towards Aaron’s bill.
As you’re no doubt aware, expenses for this kind of event can get astronomical pretty quickly. Please stay tuned as we work with Aaron’s family to see how else his fans can help.
Tomorrow we can finally all get our hands on Fate of the Jedi: Outcast, the first book in the latest post-ROTJ series. Also kicking off is Aaron Allston ‘s seven-city book tour in Lexington. And be sure to check out the excerpt if you haven’t already.
As for comics, Wednesday brings Legacy #34, and I’ve also been seeing the latest Insider in stores. And TFN is reporting that UK fans have spotted the first Star Wars Adventures digest, but I don’t think we’ll be seeing them in the states just yet.