{"id":1596,"date":"2013-11-30T22:33:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T22:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2017-09-06T19:58:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:58:25","slug":"last-day-for-pearl-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/11\/30\/last-day-for-pearl-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Day for Pearl Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The auctions for Janis Ian&#39;s Pearl Foundation fund-raising drive, including those for the items I donated, have entered their final day.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s some great stuff here, including items by Neil Gaiman, Pat Conroy, Harlan Ellison, Jane Yolen, Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card, and many others, and the Pearl Foundation is a terrific cause&#8230; so here&#39;s a great chance to add some wonderful books to your collection and do good at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>My own donations are a script from GAME OF THRONES, signed by the entire Stark family:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/George-R-R-Martin-orig-pilot-script-GAME-THRONES-signed-all-Starks-\/200988947831?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item2ecbdff577\">http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/George-R-R-Martin-orig-pilot-script-GAME-THRONES-signed-all-Starks-\/200988947831?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;hash=item2ecbdff577<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, a presentation copy in slipcase of the Subterreanean Press limited edition of A DANCE WITH DRAGON, illustrated by Marc Fishman and signed by both of us:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/George-R-R-Martin-signed-personal-presentation-copy-DANCE-DRAGONS-\/200988953490?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&amp;hash=item2ecbe00b92\">http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/George-R-R-Martin-signed-personal-presentation-copy-DANCE-DRAGONS-\/200988953490?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&amp;hash=item2ecbe00b92<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, a set of hardcovers for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, all five volumes published to date, to be autographed and personalized on request:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/George-R-R-Martin-signed-hardcovers-all-five-SONG-ICE-AND-FIRE-novels-\/200988772976?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&amp;hash=item2ecbdd4a70\">http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/George-R-R-Martin-signed-hardcovers-all-five-SONG-ICE-AND-FIRE-novels-\/200988772976?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&amp;hash=item2ecbdd4a70<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So go ye forth and bid!&nbsp; Bid often!&nbsp; Bid high!! Come out, come out, you snipers, do your worst, and raise some pearls for Pearl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The auctions for Janis Ian&#39;s Pearl Foundation fund-raising drive, including those for the items I donated, have entered their final day. There&#39;s some great stuff here, including items by Neil Gaiman, Pat Conroy, Harlan Ellison, Jane Yolen, Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card, and many others, and the Pearl Foundation is a terrific cause&#8230; so here&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,20,238,180,16],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}