My recent posts have been rather self-serving, what with suggestions you take part in the auctions selling my wife’s and my sister-in-law’s comic book art. So I figured I’d better make a post that could help others, if for no other reason than to balance out the karma.

Luckily, this also actually happens to be for a good cause—the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund. Check out the press release below, which I should have shared with you days ago, except for life being too, too busy.

I plan on buying some tickets … and I hope you will, too.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 3, 2010
CONTACTS: Special Events – Jenn Brissett and K. Tempest Bradford

EREADER FUNDRAISER LIVE NOVEMBER 5

The Carl Brandon Society announces a prize drawing to support the The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund.

The Carl Brandon Society, an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fiction, will hold a prize drawing of five eReaders to benefit the Butler Scholarship, a fund that sends two emerging writers of color to the Clarion writers workshops annually.

In keeping with the Society’s support of literature from and about people of color, the prizes include five eReaders: two Barnes & Noble Nooks, two Kobo Readers, and one Alex eReader from Spring Design. Each eReader will come pre-loaded with books, short stories and essays by writers of color from the speculative fiction field. Writers include: N. K. Jemisin, Nisi Shawl, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Terence Taylor, Ted Chiang, Shweta Narayan, Chesya Burke, Moondancer Drake, Saladin Ahmed, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz and more. (more…)