For people like me, who only discovered this accidentally last night, NickW is running new episodes of Avatar: the Last Airbender every night this week, leading up to a longer climactic episode this Saturday.

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Congrats to muccamukk, who won my livelongnmarry auction!

The livelongnmarry auction to benefit marriage equality ends 12:01 am, Pacific time, July 15, tomorrow. There's still time to bid, and tons of cool stuff to bid on:

sartorias (Sherwood Smith) and rachelmanija (Rachel Manija Brown) have an unaired spec script for Avatar the Last Airbender. This would be your only chance to read this script.

The list of autographed books, including books by Steve Berman, Madeline Robins, Peg Kerr, Ellen Klages, Pamela Dean.

The list of other books, and book care packages, plus there's an autographed ARC of Black Ships by jo_graham

And there's fanfic, fanart, jewelry, original stories, knitting, baked goods, Japanese care packages, clothing, etc. And lots of stuff still available at low bids. If you can't donate, help by spreading the word! Find auctions of cool stuff you wish you could bid on and post about them, so other people can find them.


My offer post is here. It's for five autographed books, including hardcover copies of The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, and The Gate of Gods, plus two others from my list (The Element of Fire, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary, Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement, The Death of the Necromancer, Wheel of the Infinite, City of Bones), your choice. If the bidding goes to $125, I'll add a sixth book, your choice from my list.

Rules for how to bid, and how to make your donation when you win, are here.

A few things:


Black Gate #12 should be shipping now. My story in it is "Houses of the Dead." It's another prequel story to the Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, about Giliead and Ilias.

naominovik's Victory of Eagles is out today, which I'm going out to buy later.

Stargate: Atlantis season 4 DVDs are out today, which I can't go buy because I preordered them, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I have to wait for them to get here in the mail. Season 5 starts airing this Friday, so that's something else to look forward to.

Last week or so I rearranged the bibliography page on my web site, adding a list of publications by date as well as by category.

The livelongnmarry auction is still going on. Someone added up the high bids so far on July 4 and they came to over $18,000. That's a serious donation already, and the auction goes to July 15. My offer post for my autographed books is here. It's at $100.00 now, and I figure that if it goes over $125, I'll add a sixth book.

The livelongnmarry auction seems to be going well, yay! There's so much stuff posted now, it's incredible. It helps to check the "offered" and "seller" tags in the sidebar of the community, that can give you a quicker overview of what's available besides fanfic, art, etc. Like: baked goods, tea, books, typesetting, jewelry, pottery, soap, graphic design. (Misc Items has an amazing variety available.)

My offer post for the autographed books is here. Remember to check the profile post for the rules before you bid, and the auction goes to July 15.

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tripoli8 has a post here about the controversy surrounding the death of PFC LaVena Johnson: PFC Johnson's father, Dr. John Johnson, her mother, and many others have spent the last three years trying to get somebody to investigate his daughter's murder, and the growing number of cases like it.

DearAuthor has an editorial on Heeding the Warning Signals in ePublishing: In light of the recent occurrences at NCP in which the publisher took a partial from an author and inserted it into an anthology without her permission and allowed others to finish the story for her, again without her permission, I wondered what impact that had on readers.

Here's a reminder that the livelongnmarry fandom-sponsored auction to benefit marriage equality starts tomorrow, July 1. Bidding begins on July 1, 12:01 AM one minute after midnight Pacific Time, 2008, and closes on July 15, 12:01 AM one minute after midnight Pacific Time, 2008. Please do not bid until bidding opens.

My offer post is here. It's for five autographed books, including hardcover copies of The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, and The Gate of Gods, plus two others from my list (The Element of Fire, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary, Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement, The Death of the Necromancer, Wheel of the Infinite, City of Bones), your choice. The minimum bid is $10.00. Rules for how to bid, and how to make your donation when you win, are here.

The other autographed books up for auction are here, including books by Peg Kerr, Pamela Dean, and Steve Berman. There are tons and tons of other items up for auction, including offers to write fanfic, original stories, handmade custom jewelry, knitted clothing, baked goods, original art, fan art, and story critique services.

So remember, July 1, 12:01 AM one minute after midnight Pacific Time, and even if you can't afford to bid, you can help by spreading the word.

Here's my schedule for ApolloCon, this weekend in Houston, Texas.

Saturday

1:00-2:00 Besides Blood, Sweat, and Inspiration: What it Takes to be a Writer

2:00-3:00 Autographing

5:00-6:00 Balloons of War and Pearl-handled Ray Guns: Steampunk Rampant

Sunday

10:00-11:00am Food and Fantasy; or, How Do These People Survive

12:00 Reading -25 minutes

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And here's my offer for livelongnmarry:

OFFER: Five Autographed books. Will include autographed hardcover copies of my fantasy trilogy The Wizard Hunters, The Ships of Air, and The Gate of Gods. Plus two other autographed books, your choice of either The Element of Fire (reprint trade paper) or City of Bones (reprint trade paper), Wheel of the Infinite (hardcover), The Death of the Necromancer (hardcover), Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary or Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement (paperbacks). And I'll personalize the autograph with your name if you request it.

CONTACT: My email is msw @ charisat . com, or you can contact me through my website at www.marthawells.com.

DELIVERY: As soon as the auction closes, and you provide your shipping address.

MINIMUM BID: $10.00.


The offer post is here.

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Found via sartorias:

livelongnmarry a fandom fundraising auction for marriage equality. It went live today, and you may sign up now. Bidding opens July 1, and closes July 15.

Live Long and Marry will raise funds to fight the discriminatory anti-marriage bill which will be on the California, USA ballot in November. Right now same sex couples can legally marry in California. If this bill passes, it will legally destroy those marriages without the consent of the married couples.

It's giving money to a good cause while shopping! The profile page has all the info and instructions.

Another good cause that also involves buying lovely things: The Michael Shanks Online
4th Annual Auction - Benefiting the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. There are signed photos, scripts, and other items from SG-1, SGA, Farscape, Firefly, and other shows. New items are added every day. The Joe Flanigan autographs keep shooting up out of my price range, dammit.