Who’s up for doing a good deed today?

I know, I know. “Simon,” you’re saying, “you’d trample an infant to get to the 50% Black Friday vodka discounts. What’s with the talking about good deeds?”

Well, they’re not my good deeds, are they? They’re someone else’s. So I can talk about them. Loophole. Duh.

And the good-deeder in question? None other than my lovely, longtime friend Carolina Valdez Miller. C’mon. Is anyone surprised? You all knew she was saintly already. (Really, it’s a wonder she hangs around, virtually or otherwise, with a reprobate like me.)

See, she’s had it a little rough in the ol’ net-o-sphere recently, what with getting hacked and locked out of All The Social Media by some douchebags of such epic douchebaggery that they make standard-issue douchebags look like mere jerks. And what sucks most is that she has this good-deedery that she really could use some help with, and wasn’t able to blog about it until today.

She’s going on a medical mission to Haiti. Remember it? Earthquake a year or so ago? Crushing poverty? Cholera epidemics? She’s going there. As a volunteer.

Go read about it. Like, now. You really don’t have to come back here.

But if you do happen to wander back, or if you finish this post before clicking over, I urge you to do what you can to help her. You don’t have to donate money, though seriously, that’d be fantastic. But at the very least, could you help spread the word?

Link her up on the Twitters, on the Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and anywhere else you might maintain an online presence. Everything helps.

Friends, we write fiction because, on some level, we want to connect with readers, to affect other people’s minds and lives with our stories. Carol’s taking it a step farther. She’s going right to where the need is greatest.

Help her out, won’t you?

Thanks.