Brandon Sanderson is offering two ways to appear as a character in the final “Wheel of Time” volume, A Memory of Light, which he is currently writing. These Tuckerizations are being offered to support the charity Heifer International.
Readers can bid in a silent auction, the winner of which will appear in the book and get a few lines of dialogue. “I’ll let you pick your nationality and affiliation,” he writes. Bidding ends in early April, and full details are available here. Currently, the bid is $5,001 (they update the high bid once a day).
Since Sanderson realizes that this auction will get expensive, and only allow one person to participate, leaving out a lot of others, there’s a second way to appear in the book. Sanderson writes “During the Last Battle, there will be a lot of groups fighting the Shadow. Well, we’re letting the fans vote on what the group’s nationality is, and from there we’ll probably let the fans pick the banner for the group as well. This group will be written into the novel (there are several places where I’ll need to be doing this and inserting various groups of people) as participating. Several of the officers of the group will be mentioned by name. Those officers names will be drawn randomly from everyone who donated at least $20 to the fund raiser through TarValon.net.”
Heifer International, rather than giving food, donates live animals to people in developing countries and “teaches them how to use the livestock to create a sustainable source of income and food.”
Details on the fact that Brandon Sanderson is writing the conclusion of Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series were published in this article.