Technical Difficulties

Carl Brandon Society: $140
Scarleteen: $150
JMFMBE: $140

Thank you very very much to everyone who bid. You are all awesome, and I am beyond pleased that we've managed to raise more than a hundred dollars for each of these three causes.

vompirr, timefortea, and mykfreddy, email me at semonette (at) sarahmonette (dot) com with your shipping information. And if you want your ARC personalized--to [name] [some sort of message, depending on what I can think of] from Sarah--please (a.) say so and (b.) tell me what name to write. Assuming I hear back from you, the ARCs will go out tomorrow. It is entirely up to you whether you make your donations now or wait until you have the ARC. All I ask is that you do make the donation.

Again, thank you. Thank you all.

Okay. Here is the plan. I have decided to auction off all three of my ARCs.

One will benefit the John M. Ford Memorial Book Endowment.

One will benefit Scarleteen.

One will benefit the Carl Brandon Society.

As March 7th is the T-minus one month and counting anniversary of the official release date of Corambis, that is the day I want to take these ARCs to the post office and ship them out.

Therefore, the auctions will take place, concurrently rather than consecutively, beginning tomorrow, March 5, 2009, at 12:00 p.m. CDT (i.e., high noon my time, which increases the likelihood that I will be awake to start the auction) and end March 6, 2009, at 12:00 p.m. CDT. Doing them consecutively seems like it might end up with the last ARC's price becoming ridiculous, and while I obviously want to raise as much money as I can, I also want as many people as possible to feel like they have a chance. You may bid in one, two, or all three auctions; however, in the stunningly unlikely event of one person winning more than one auction, I'm going to ask that you take only one ARC and let the next highest bidder in the other auction(s?) win.

Each ARC will be signed and hand-corrected by me in, yes, purple ink (Lamy purple and a Lamy Safari Vista Clear, for them as like to know these things). I will also personalize the ARCs if the winners so desire, but will leave that up to them to decide.

Yes, I will send ARCs anywhere in the world, so long as you make your donations in a form that the Library Foundation of Hennepin County, Scarleteen, and the Carl Brandon Society can accept (I believe they all take PayPal).

No, you do not have to have a LiveJournal account to bid. I ask, however, if you do not have an LJ, that you sign each bid with an email address.

Please feel free to announce this auction on your blogs.

ETA: I would also ask, although this is a REQUEST, not a demand or requirement, that if you receive an ARC, you blog about it. That holds whether you like Corambis or not. And as I said, it's not a requirement and I won't go checking up on you or anything. It'd just be nice.

If there's a concern or question I've forgotten to address, please ask in the comments to this post.