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Okay. I’ve had my holiday break. I’m relatively rested and recharged. You’ll be seeing more blogs than normal in these next couple weeks. Not just fundraiser stuff, but some other blogs that I’ve been meaning to post for some time.
We hit our 100K target a week or so back. So, as promised, here’s a bonus blog full of books I’m personally adding to the lottery. A lot of these I’ve collected over the last year while attending conventions. Most of them are first editions and signed by the authors.
I’ll be doing another bonus blog when we hit 150K. Which, judging by the look of that thermometer over there, is probably going to happen pretty soon….
- One complete set of all the Discworld books by Terry Pratchett.
Recently someone wrote me an e-mail asking, “What do you do when your life sucks and you don’t want to write any more?”
I replied, “I read Terry Pratchett.”
It amazes me that there are some fantasy readers out there that still haven’t read Pratchett. I can’t fix that for everyone, but one person in the lottery is going to win the chance to read all the Pratchett their geeky little heart desires….
- One hardcover copy of Nation by Terry Pratchett. Signed by the author.
I got to meet Terry Pratchett this year, though only very briefly. In this blog I told the story of how I was lucky enough to get him to sign one book for me.
This was that book. I could probably auction it off for a pretty penny. But I’d rather put it in the lottery where anyone can get it.
- One set of the ARCs of Wintersmith and Thud! by Terry Pratchett.
Honestly, I don’t have any idea where I got these ARCs. But I figured I’d throw them into the mix, too. Thud! is one of my very favorite Discworld novels.
- One first edition hardcover copy of The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens. Signed by the author.
“This fast-paced, fully imagined fantasy is by turns frightening and funny, and the siblings are well-crafted and empathetic heroes. Highly enjoyable, it should find many readers.” – Publishers Weekly
- One first edition hardcover of Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl. Signed by the authors.
“This book has it all: a creepy setting, a deadly curse, reincarnation, spells, witchcraft and voodoo, plus characters that simply will not let the reader put the book down until finished…Who could ask for more?” – VOYA
- One first edition hardcover copy of Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor. Signed by the author.
I’ve already gushed about Nnedi a couple times here on the blog in this last month. So I won’t bother repeating myself. Besides, why would you bother listening to me when Ursula K Le Guin is vouching for her…?
“There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
- One first edition hardcover copy of Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente. Signed by the author.
“Romantic and blood-streaked, and infused with magic so real you can feel it on your fingertips – Deathless is beautiful.” – Cory Doctorow
- One first edition hardcover copy of A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin. Signed by the author.
“Martin’s love for sophisticated, deeply strange fantasy permeates “Dance” like a phantasmagorical fever dream.” – L.A. Times
- One copy of Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac. Signed by the author.
“A grand adventure and an inspiration that is not to be missed.” – Kirkus Review
- One first edition hardcover copy of Ghost Story by Jim Butcher. Signed by the author.
Pat’s Note: I make no bones about my love for Jim Butcher. The Dresden Files is possibly my favorite current series that I’m reading.
“Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.” – Entertainment Weekly
- One first edition hardcover copy of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Signed by the author.
How much do I like this book?
Well… last year at House on the Rock, me and my crew dressed up as the ghosts in the book. Because that’s how we roll.
(As you can see, Oot was Bod.)
We almost won the costume contest too….
…but that, as they say, is another story.
“The Graveyard Book manages the remarkable feat of playing delightful jazz riffs on Kipling’s classic Jungle Books. One might call this book a small jewel, but in fact it’s much bigger within than it looks from the outside.” – Peter S. Beagle
- One hardcover copy of The Boy at the End of the World by Greg van Eekhout. Signed by the author.
“The Boy at the End of the World is both moving and full of adventure. This remarkable survival story will change the way readers think about themselves and the world they live in.” – Sarah Prineas, author of The Magic Thief
- One hardcover copy of The Griff by Christopher Moore & Ian Corson. Signed by the authors.
From outrageously funny New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore and award-winning screenwriter and director Ian Corson, THE GRIFF: A Graphic Novel is about an alien invasion of Earth and the motley crew of humans who save the world—sort of . . .
- One leather-bound, gold-leaf paged copy of Lamb by Christopher Moore. Signed by the author.
This year when I was at San Diego Comic Con I got to meet Christopher Moore. While I was there, I got lucky and bought two copies of the special gold-leaf edition of Lamb. The first one was for me, of course, but the second one I’ve been holding on to so I could put it in the fundraiser.
It’s a pretty book, gold leaf around the pages. This edition also has the faux leather cover, so it’s extra valuable, as faux are now endangered species and can’t be hunted for their skins any more.
It also has a little bookmark, so you know it’s posh.
All joking aside, this is a great book.Laugh-out-loud funny in places, sweet and touching in others. If you haven’t read any Moore before, this is a good place to start.
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Remember, for every 10 dollars you donate on the Worldbuilders Team Page, you get a chance to win these books and hundreds of others.
What’s more, Worldbuilders will match 50% of your donations. So if you chip in before January 31st of 2012, you get a bigger bang for your buck.
To see the other books folks have donated, as well as our auctions, and the items we’re selling in the store, you can head over to our main page HERE.