Mermaid’s Madness Auction to Benefit NCADV

Last year, I auctioned off an autographed Advance Review Copy of The Stepsister Scheme to raise money for National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. With ARCs in hand for The Mermaid’s Madness [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy], I’m doing the same thing. The themes of the series in general and this book in particular make NCADV a perfect recipient for this fundraiser.

Rather than using eBay again (and letting them take a portion of the funds), I’m going to try hosting the auction on my own site. Please post your bid in the comments at http://www.jimchines.com/2009/07/mermaid-auction/ no later than midnight EST on July 23.

The rules:

Starting bid is $5.
Bids need to be in at least $1 increments (though you’re welcome to go higher). No penny ante $5.01 bidding wars, please.
Make sure you include a valid e-mail address (which won’t be published).
Bids must be placed at the jimchines.com address. Bids at LJ, Facebook, Dreamwidth, or anywhere else the blog is syndicated won’t count, ’cause that gets way too confusing.
I’ll mail the ARC to the winner within 2 business days of receiving payment.

I’ll mail the winner an autographed ARC of the book. If bidding exceeds $100, I’ll throw in an autographed copy of another of my books (your choice) to go with it.

If you don’t want to bid but still feel like donating, the NCADV donations page is at http://www.ncadv.org/donate.php

Please feel free to spread the word, either by copying and pasting the code below, or simply mentioning the auction on your blog. Thanks in advance, everyone!

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Kerry

July 15th, 2009 at 10:11 am

I will start the bidding at $10.

I can’t bid again, but that should get you off to a good start.
I posted your html on my LJ - hope it helps some.

Astres

July 15th, 2009 at 10:19 am

$15!

July 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am

I don’t understand. Are you bidding, Melanie?

Jim C. Hines

July 15th, 2009 at 10:44 am

Astres - That’s a pingback. Wordpress shows incoming links like that as comments. ~~I’m probably going to go in and disable pingbacks on this post to avoid confusion.~~

Pingbacks are now turned off, so hopefully there shouldn’t be any more confusion.