I’m not sure how well you can see this, but…this is the customized scrapbook page I created to have auctioned off at Malice this weekend. Inside the small album is room for 8 photos (4″ x 6″ size). The cover of the album is sewn with sequins sprinkled throughout. The papers were customized and colored just for this, and the “not everyone’s cup of tea” paper was custom made. The upper right with its overlapping letters pays homage to Agatha Christie’s many books. The three red drops of blood lower right are in homage to the Killer Hobbies blog in which I participate. The tea bag on the left has glitter “inside.” Agatha’s portrait was sewn on by hand. The name of my book–Paper, Scissors, Death–appears on the page. And the tea cup is the official emblem of Malice Domestic.
The Malice Domestic live auction benefits the John I. Gildner Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents, for the treatment of severely emotionally disturbed young people. The dollars raised each year supplements the budget for enrichment programs, such as fostering the enjoyment of reading.
I’m also offering to review three chapters of someone’s manuscript.
Last week, the naming rights to a character in Book #3 of the Kiki Lowenstein Mystery Series fetched in excess of $500 (we think it was $750, but we can’t confirm that yet) for the Guardian Angel group here in St. Louis.
