Romancing the Vote and an annotated Ninefox Gambit offer (plus more!)
This is US-specific in its goals, but Romancing the Vote “is a massive auction (July 1 to 6) featuring your favorite authors, crafters, comic book artists, screenwriters, video game creators, scientists, and more! this year all money raised goes to Vote Riders and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, two organizations fighting to preserve the right for every person to have their vote counted.” Many auctions will be open to international bidders, though!
I have three auctions listed; feel free to ping me at [email protected] if you have questions about specifications.
Ninefox Gambit: Annotated - Are you dying to know what backstory got cut (entire flashbacks), added on a whim (formation instinct, the spur-of-the-moment invention that warped the entire Machineries of Empire trilogy), whether Jedao was lying/telling the truth/AVOCADO_ERROR for every single statement or where the mathy bits were supposed to go before my husband the astrophysicist told me to cut them? What was behind XYZ keyboardsmash worldbuilding word choice or where the Korean military history references were hiding? You're in luck! I'm offering one (1) typed and/or handwritten (hand health permitting) annotated copy of NINEFOX GAMBIT. The margins are small so you're getting the notes in a separate/companion notebook or volume. Maybe scurrilous explanatory cartoons/character sketches if I'm inspired. You never know! (The starting bid is $77 because I'm a troll and the extra copy I have lying around is probably the fancy edition hardcover, sorry not sorry.)
Tarot Art of Your Character! - Digital painting/illustration in an ink-and-wash inspired style; typical examples from the Ninefox Tarot WIP. Digital delivery only.
Bespoke orchestral music - Orchestral composition up to two minutes and mockup using VSTs (my toolbox includes Vienna Symphonic Library, Orchestral Tools, 8dio, Performance Samples, Impact Soundworks… too many to list, really). My music reel has short examples; my Bandcamp, especially the mini-album Trailures and Other Fiascoes, has full pieces if you’d like to explore further. Digital delivery only (for the audio file; this doesn’t include an engraved score). I've attached an example hybrid orchestral piece I composed and mocked up, "Fragmentation and Other Fiascoes."
A selection of other auctions (of the many!) that might be of interest:
Annotated copy of Ursula Whitcher’s North Continent Ribbon - On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight and tucked behind a veil. I’m biased because I read a number of these luminous, nuanced, thought-provoking science fiction stories, linked by a common culture/setting, in draft, as well as blurbing the book; the collection was a finalist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin prize. Ursula herself is ferociously brilliant across multiple disciplines: mathematician, editor, author, poet, knitter/knitting pattern designer (notably including - I’m biased again - the Jedao gloves pattern!), activist. If you don’t bid on this, I will because I am dyyyyying for deets.
1-Hour Biology/Worldbuilding consult with niqaeli #1 and offering #2 - Who’s niqaeli, you might ask? Among many other things, she’s a friend of mine with a biology degree and she helps me with worldbuilding on the regular. Any handwave nonsense is on me; she’s terrific at logicking through unhinged sci-fantasy/superhero/etc premises so I can decide how much handwave is on the menu. A++, endorse wholeheartedly; of more weight, she’s also endorsed by Arkady Martine and Christopher Rice! :D
1-Hour Copyedit Ride Along with Mia Tsai - I had the intense pleasure of reading Mia’s science fantasy The Memory Hunters (Erewhon Books, 2025) in draft. Ever wonder what a professional copyedit process looks like, demonstrated on up to 20 manuscript pages of your work? Here’s your chance!
