Cheers for Evil

If we haven't said it enough, thank you again to everyone who donated and bid. We're still in the process of tracking down who has paid what, and coordinating winners with their items. This will probably continue tomorrow and Friday, and we appreciate your patience.

Your help is already making a huge difference in the community.  We received permission from the principal of Crestline, Ms. Bobbi Hite, to share her thanks to contributors:

On behalf of Crestline Elementary School and Evergreen Public Schools, thank you for your generous contribution.  The students and staff at Crestline Elementary School will benefit from your contribution both now and in the future.

Your contributions will be distributed to the Crestline Students who are now housed in five different elementary schools throughout the district, and in the fall when the new school year begins.  In addition, thanks to the overwhelming support of donors like you, there are enough supplies for the students for when Crestline Elementary School is rebuilt.

In times of disaster, contributions such as yours make an incredible difference in what’s available to our students. The overwhelming demonstration of community concern and support for the staff and students at Crestline Elementary School has helped the transition to normalcy much smoother.

Further, our beloved Bad Horse was visiting with her son's class today, and you can read her account here.

Your graciousness, hard work, and amazingness has a cumulative impact on the lives of about 500 students, their teachers, and other staff who take care of them on a daily basis. I saw firsthand some of the initial results of your efforts, guys–books in a fourth-grade classroom, bookshelves, teaching aids, posters, donated supplies used by people who lost years of accumulated work and effort when the school burned down. YOU have made a huge difference the lives of 500 children, an effect that will ripple out through them and their teachers. You’ve been the very best kind of shiny bad guys. Thank you so much.

The support and contributions from everyone is hugely appreciated. 

Thank you.

Apocalypse...Now!

Dear Evil Auction Participants,

First of all...

THANK YOU.

Thank you all so very much for your donations, time, items, effort, communication, understanding...EVERYTHING.

So much went into this auction, and for a tiny little group like ours doing this on a volunteer fundraising whim to help out a friend in time of tragedy, it got real big, real fast. There were hiccups and some bumps in the road, but we cranked it up a notch and got over them. We didn't expect to raise $500.00, and when we passed that mark on the very first night the auction was live, we thought $1000.00 was a lofty goal.

That was also blown out of the water.

As was the $2000.00 mark. At the $3000.00 mark and with offers of items for bidding still rolling in, we decided to keep it going with a second round of Evil Auction items. We never really intended this to go over a week, let alone the whole month! So we limited it to two rounds, and finally we had to start turning offers down, though we were no less grateful for them!

Two rounds was plenty! More than, given how much this little auction brought in.

The final tally of bids for both Round One and Round Two came to over $5000.00.

We here at the Evil League of Evil Writers know some amazing folk, and I don't think any of us realized just how long we could reach when we extended our collective hands.

And it wasn't just us. It was all of you as well. All your blogging and retweeting and Facebooking and emailing and bidding...all of it. Thank you.

The Evil Auction is closed for bidding now, but it's far from over. Winners and donors will be contacted about their various items and so on. There still eviltry to accomplish, but for the moment we can kick back with our mojitos and smile (evilly, of course) at the havoc we've wreaked.

We also wanted to let you all know the awesome evil you've accomplished here with us. We couldn't have done this without all of you. We set out to be Bad Guys for Crestline, and we have done so. In the words of Captain Malcolm Reynolds of Serenity, "We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

Shiny, people.

Shiny.

With Evil,
Dina, Skyla, and the Evil League of Evil Writers