About mid-November one of our members informed us that Patrick Rothfuss (author of The Name of the Wind) was doing some fund raising for the Heifer International.
In his own words, this is what Heifer is about:
Heifer International is my favorite charity. It helps people raise themselves up out of poverty and starvation. All over the world Heifer promotes education, sustainable agriculture, local industry, and clean water.
They don’t just keep kids from starving, they make it so families can take care of themselves. They give goats, sheep, and chickens to families so their children have milk to drink, warm clothes to wear, and eggs to eat.
You can read his initial thoughts he shared on Heifer International here.
What Rothfuss has been doing is trying to raise $30,000 dollars, and as you can see at his page at Heiffer they have more 24 as it stands now!
Rothfuss is combining the donations to apply to essentially what is a lottery for some cool prizes. here is how it works:
After a month’s time, on December 11th, we’ll have a drawing for prizes. I’ll use the information from the Heifer site to get the donation totals. For every 10 bucks you’ve kicked in, your name will get entered into the drawing once.
So if you’ve donated thirty bucks, your name would go in three times. Think of it as buying tickets, if you like.
When I started this fundraiser, I thought it was mostly going to be for my readers and people on my blog. So most of the prizes centered around my book (as you can see below.) But the fundraiser has grown since then, and we’re getting new stuff from generous donors all over the world. Stay tuned for new stuff.
Some of the prizes included in initial announcements were 25 signed copies of hardcover copies of his Name of the Wind, 5 first edition copies signed by Rothfuss, an early editorial manuscript of the book, and other works associated with him or contained work by him.
Recently I have had contact with Rothfuss simply to get detail on how and when BookSpot Central could bests help with spreading the word about this charity and his efforts involving the charity. He informed that Subterranean Press would soon be donating a large number of their books for the cause. If you aren’t familiar with Subterranean Press, they are a publisher that’s presentation and build-quality will make you love books you may not even like reading! A lot of their books sell out before they are even publicly listed an Patrick posted the goods, some $8000 worth of books that’s going to the cause and Mr. Rothfuss thought that today and such an occasion would be a good time to add more eyes to the cause!!
With his permission, I have some images of what’s up for grabs – check out his full post here.
Ten sets of Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather by Tim Powers. Signed, numbered, limited edition sets!
Amazing!
Ten copies of The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox by Barry Hughart. Signed by the author.
Ten copies of Retro Pulp Tales, edited by Joe R. Lansdale. Signed by all authors. Limited edition.
Ten copies of Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill. Signed by the author.
This is not Subterranean but who doesn’t love Peter S. Beagle? Check this out:
Three copies of Strange Roads by Peter S. Beagle. Illustrated with the artwork of Lisa Snellings. Signed by Peter S. Beagle.
PLEASE READ! – I just want to note that if you have the heart and are able to donate please read the instructions by Mr. Rothfuss at his blog. This process, while is obviously something he is passionately behind has to take time and could easily turn into a logistic nightmare if people don’t read all the info on how to contribute and do everything they can to make the process the least redundant (in terms of answering questions or correcting errors that he either answers already or warns about on his blog) as possible for Mr. Rothfuss.
You can go HERE and see every post by Mr. Rothfuss on the subject of Heifer International and this fundraiser! There are tons more stuff available than mentioned here – so go check it out!
Let’s do what we can to make as happy a holiday season as we can for all! Also, big-ups to Bill and Subterranean Press – well done! Let’s do our part if we can!
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