Seller: Janni Lee Simner

Offered: Personalized short story of at least 500 words (probably more) focused on how the winner (or a person the winner chooses) might survive the war between Faerie and humans in Janni Lee Simner's Bones of Faerie / Faerie Winter universe, based on where the winner lives and the details of his or her local plant life.

Signed printout and email version of story will both be sent to the winner, who will see the completed story before anyone else does and who will have the non-exclusive right to share it in not-for-profit ways.

"[Bones of Faerie] has one of the best first chapters I know—and the rest of the book more than lives up to its promise. Pure, stunning, it is impossible to put down or forget." —Jane Yolen

Opening bid: $25

Auction closes at 5 p.m. Pacific Time, December 15th, 2011