The Minneapolis Memorial Service will be Friday, October 27th at First Universalist Church of Minneapolis, 3400 Dupont Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408. The service will be from 2-4 PM; there will be a reception following from 4-5:30 PM.
rest courtesy of
elisemthe John M. Ford Book Endowment fundThe Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library has endowment funds. For every $500 in the fund, one book is purchased every year for the library using the fund's income - they do not touch the principle, so it buys new books for (theoretically) forever. There's a PayPal 'contribute' button on their homepage (and, yes, they know about the typo).
John Scalzi is
auctioning off a bound manuscript copy of
The Last Colony. This is one of only
four copies in existence - go read. It's up to $340 (from a $50 start) as of my last 'refresh' - he's throwing in sweeteners at $200, $500, $1000, $2000, $3000 (you can be a character in an upcoming book), and $5000 (he'll write you your own short story).