{"id":761,"date":"2006-10-03T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/03\/john-scalzi-auction\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T23:59:06","slug":"john-scalzi-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/03\/john-scalzi-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Scalzi&#8217;s Next Novel Auctioned for Library Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My pal John Scalzi&#8217;s just-completed science fiction novel, <i>The Last Colony<\/i>, isn&#8217;t coming out from Tor until May 2007, but he&#8217;s got one specially printed copy created at Lulu.com, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/004513.html\">he&#8217;s selling it to the highest bidder<\/a> to raise funds for the <b>John M. Ford Endowment<\/b> at the Minneapolis Public Library. And there&#8217;s an escalating series of bonus prizes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;If the bidding gets above $200, I&#8217;ll throw in a copy of my signed, limited-edition chapbook &#8216;Questions for a Soldier.&#8217;\n<li>At $500, I&#8217;ll put in a signed Advance Reader Copy of <i>Agent to the Stars<\/i>.\n<li>At $1,000, a signed ARC of <i>The Ghost Brigades<\/i>.\n<li>At $2,000, a signed copy of <i>Old Man&#8217;s War<\/i>.\n<li>At $3,000, I&#8217;ll make you a character in an upcoming book (note: I may kill you off. Hey, it happens).\n<li>And at $5,000, I&#8217;ll write you your own short story. Because, <i>damn<\/i>, if you&#8217;re paying $5K, you deserve it.&#8221;<\/ul>\n<p>Bidding was already at $140 when I went to bed late last night; it&#8217;s probably higher now. Remember, all the money raised goes to the Minneapolis Public Library&#8217;s new endowment honoring the memory of the late SF\/F writer John M. Ford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My pal John Scalzi&#8217;s just-completed science fiction novel, The Last Colony, isn&#8217;t coming out from Tor until May 2007, but he&#8217;s got one specially printed copy created at Lulu.com, and he&#8217;s selling it to the highest bidder to raise funds for the John M. Ford Endowment at the Minneapolis Public Library. And there&#8217;s an escalating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}