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I announced this earlier in the week, but forgot to mention it here:

Con or Bust's annual online auction, which is its principal source of funds to help fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF cons, is now accepting items for auction. Bidding will begin on Monday, April 20, and run for just under two weeks. You can get more details at the ( Read more... )

1. Con or Bust is currently auctioning a signed maunscript of Mary Robinette Kowal's forthcoming (April 2015) conclusion to the Glamourist Histories series, along with signed hardcovers of all the books in the series, thanks to the author & the Ada Initiative (which I have just about trained myself out of writing as ADA, because Americans with ( Read more... )

Despite making it a four-panel day, I asked to be added to this because it specifically mentions Con or Bust and it sounded really interesting. And it was ( Read more... )

Con or Bust's annual fundraising auction will run from Monday, February 10, through Sunday, February 23, this year, and the website is now open for auction offers (actually, a few got posted this weekend when alert folks noticed I'd put up a post just to make sure things were working).

You can learn more about submitting items for auction, or go ( Read more... )

So, Con or Bust. Last year's auction had many, many tags-the only thing I use tags for is the auction ( Read more... )

I wanted to post this here earlier, but it was very hard to be under five years old tonight in Chateau Steelypips. So:
As you know, dear readers, I run Con or Bust, which helps fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF cons. Since the start of 2012, Con or Bust has helped forty fans of color attend SFF cons, many for the very first time.
Today, ( Read more... )

I just mailed the Con or Bust T-shirts to the Wiscon hotel (V-neck fitted shirts, back in stock, look for them at the Aqueduct table in the dealers' room!), but somehow I managed to forget just how small the Priority flat-rate boxes are, so my clever plan to prepay my postage for the leftover shirts and have the hotel ship them is foiled ( Read more... )

So I'm thinking of additional ways to raise money for Con or Bust, because the auction is going well but not smashingly (ends tonight! Check it out!), and one thing that occurred to me was a raffle at WisCon (and maybe Readercon, but first things first). So I've just sent in a request for a dealer's table. We'll see if there's space left and if a ( Read more... )

Bidding is open! I cheat and quote myself:

Bidding is now live on Con or Bust's annual online auction, which raises funds to help fans of color/non-white fans attend SFF cons. All you have to do is leave a comment on the auction offer you're interested in before bidding closes, on Sunday, February 24 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern. (You may also want to ( Read more... )