Finally, a note about The Name of the Wind author Patrick Rothfuss’s Worldbuilders charity drive that’s ending on January 15th. Last year he raised $114,000 for Heifer International , and this year he’s matching donations at 50%. So far people have donated $87,000, making the total more than $130,000. As a carrot for donating, Pat is collecing a large number of prizes that will be given out in a lottery—each $10 donated gets you one ticket for the drawing. Over a thousand books have been donated so far to give out as prizes. I helped contribute one of the biggest items: a copy of that is signed not only by myself and Harriet McDougal, Robert Jordan’s wife and editor, but by many people who helped make the book as great as it was: Tom Doherty, Tor founder and publisher; Robert Jordan’s assistants Maria Simons and Alan Romanczuk; Moshe Feder, my editor at Tor for my own books; my agent, Joshua Bilmes; Paul Stevens, my in-house editor at Tor; Dana Giusio, a VP at Macmillan, Tor’s parent company; Phyllis Azar, head of marketing at Tor-Forge; Irene Gallo, Tor’s fantastic art director; and last but not at all least, Dot Lin, the Tor publicist extraordinaire who lined up so many great signings in my recent tour. Anyone who donates at least $10 will have a chance to win this book (or a huge number of other great items, like some kind of book by Neil Gaiman that Pat is packaging with a rock), and the more you donate the better chance you’ll have of winning. I think Heifer International is a worthy cause, so why not lend a hand before the January 15th deadline?
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