{"id":2082,"date":"2012-06-29T22:55:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2017-09-18T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T20:15:56","slug":"weeklong-wild-spirit-wolf-sanctuary-charity-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2012\/06\/29\/weeklong-wild-spirit-wolf-sanctuary-charity-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeklong Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Charity Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

ENDING SOON!!!<\/p>\n

Our supply of DANCE WITH DRAGONS is sold out, but there are still copies of the CAPTAIN OF GUARDS chapbook available for a $10 donation to the wolves.<\/p>\n

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I’ve always been fond of wolves… direwolves in Westeros, and real wolves in the real world. <\/p>\n

Wolves have faced a tough road for the last century or so. US wolf populations hit critical lows during the twentieth century, and finding a way for humans to co-exist with this majestic creatures is an important part of the conservation movement. Here in my home state of New Mexico, we have the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary (http:\/\/www.wildspiritwolfsanctuary.org\/index.php) doing important work in protecting the animals and in educating their two legged neighbors on how to get along. It’s work I strongly support, with both my words and my checkbook.<\/p>\n

I invite you to join me over the next week. In conjunction with Wild Spirit, I’m sponsoring a charity drive to raise funds for the shelter. For the next week, we’ll be offering a pair of items from my personal library to people making donations. You can find the books being offered and the donation amounts here: http:\/\/www.wildspiritwolfsanctuary.org\/georgemartin_bookfund.php<\/a><\/p>\n

For a donation of $100 to the Wild Spirit Sanctuary, I will send you a first edition hardcover of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS, autographed… autographed and personally inscribed (upon request). For the most part I have been forced to stop doing personal inscriptions at my bookstore signings, con appearances, and the like… the crowds have simply gotten too large… so this is a rare chance for those who’d like to have a book personalizations. But the offer is limited to forty (40) copies, first come, first served. So if you want one, click on the link and make that donation NOW.<\/p>\n

\"Dance<\/p>\n

For those who can’t afford a hundred bucks, or arrive at the party too late after the forty copies are gone, we have another offering — a special promotional chapbook featuring the “Captain of the Guards” chapter from A FEAST FOR CROWS. This was prepared by Bantam as a promotional item for the BEA (Book Expo America) and was given away to attendees at that event, but copies were never sold in any bookstore, so it’s a pretty cool collectible for the fans who have everything, and a $10 donation to the sanctuary will snag you a copy. I will be glad to sign these items as well — but, alas, only a straight signature, no personalization or inscription.<\/p>\n

\"Captain<\/p>\n

So $10 will get you a signed CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS, and $100 will get you a signed and inscribed DANCE WITH DRAGONS. But don’t do it for the books. Do it because the world would be a much worse place without this face in it.<\/p>\n

\"Ally<\/p>\n

THIS DRIVE WILL END ON SATURDAY AT MIDNIGHT. So if you would like to make a donation and give some wolves a hand, act now. Do it for House Stark. If we raise enough money, maybe I’ll let some Starks live a little longer… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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