Claire O'Dell will provide to the winning bidder a written manuscript critique of a short story or an excerpt up to 5,000 words.

Claire O'Dell is the author of dozens of short stories and a number of novels, including the SF mystery series, The Janet Watson Chronicles, and the epic fantasy series River of Souls. Her first novel, Passion Play, won the 2010 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Epic Fantasy and was long-listed for the Otherwise award. Her novel A Study in Honor won the 2019 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Mystery. She currently lives in Connecticut with her family and two idiosyncratic cats.