I'm closing the email bidding off for the Melbourne auction now because it's 12:00am here in Adelaide.

Highest email bid was $500. That is awesome! And the incredibly generous front runner is even someone with a Irish name! I kinda hope she wins, although it would be nice for the Bushfire victims to raise even more $$$.

If you want another bite at the cherry, there is another auction next Friday in Brisbane, so we'll start the bidding off again at $20 and see how we go for the next week.

The proceeds of the next auction will be going to  Flood Relief for the Queensland flood victims who are doing it just as tough, but not getting nearly the same coverage as the bushfire sufferers.

The details of the prize are as follows:

• Two characters are available (can be male or female) for auction (one in Melbourne and one in Brisbane.) 
• Winner will get their name in the book as a character (they will not, however, get to dictate anything else – physical appearance, characteristics and eventual fate are all my prerogative). In other words I can kill off your namesake off if I feel like itJ
• The series is the Rift Runners series. Book 1 – The Undivided is tentatively scheduled for release in 2010.

You get to chose the name. I get to decide everything else.

If you want to bid, email me here  If you want to bid via one of the free services (gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc) email your bid to info@jenniferfallon.com.

I will keep you posted as to the progress of the auction  on Twitter (because it's faster). Bids for Brisbane will close on Thursday, April 2nd, at midnight (ACDST).

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