Guys. Guys. Hey Guys.

It's been a Monday type of Monday for us, but that hasn't slowed y'all down at all. Bidding is hot, middle Tennessee has relief on the way, and it's all thanks to you.

We'd like to ask a favor.

For winning bidders - we are moving as fast as we can to get your payment instructions to you. We've had some PayPal issues. We think maybe they thought we were secretly planning a trip to Aruba - compliments of you - so they locked our account for a few hours. We're sorting that out.

If you've sent us an email with an offer for a donation, we thank you. Please understand that there are only three of us, and (luckily) there are way more of you! We're alerting donors the night before their auction goes up, and right now that's as quickly as we can go. If at all possible, please do not email to ask if we've received your item. We have more than 600 emails in our inbox.

This is crazysauce. And also, awesome.

On one hand: We've agreed we cannot continue at the pace we're going for more than ten days. On the other hand: We have WAY more than enough auction items for ten days. So the plan is this:

1) We'll shortly be closing donations. Even if you are J.K. Rowling and you donate an item, we will have to say no thank you. (Okay, for J.K. we'll make an exception.)

2) For all the items that won't fit in days one through ten, we will organize bundles by item/genre. Crits, signed books, craft items, magazine subscriptions, artwork, etc.

3) We're developing a way for you to bid for these items. Example of what such a blog post might look like:

(Picture of five books.)

We have five signed books by authors A, B, C, D and E. First five commenters to agree to donate $15 each win a book. Books will be assigned randomly. Go.

4) We'll alert donors to make sure they want to participate in this way before we post the bundles.

Make sense? Good. Have questions? Comment.

Please, for the love of all that is literary, do not email.

THANK YOU.