We brought in over $2000 (US) at the auction -- three tuckerizations were the big ticket items, along with the Musketeer doll and several George Martin items. This is one of our better recent efforts, especially considering the modest attendance at Torcon.

Thanks to Laura Anne Gilman, Peter Liverakos, Keith DiCandido, jan howard finder, Lee Martindale and Melanie Fletcher for helping the auction run smoothly.

The SFWA Musketeers (and Queen Esther) raised an additional $500 through various means, including sales at the SFWA table and Esther's touching for the Queen's Evil. Thanks to all the Musketeers for their hard work, both at the con and throughout the year. And thanks to Steve Carper and C.J. Mills for their fine work at the table.

And the tip jar in the SFWA suite averaged about $100 a night, so we ended up with something like $2800 US all told for the fund. Many thanks to all who contributed, and to the barkeeps who arm twisted a few bucks out of the assembled hoards.

Peter Heck

Posted September 3, 2003