For Rs 12 lakh, you could get killed in a GoT book

The author of the Game of Thrones books, George R R Martin, is crowdfunding for a good cause: he’s asking for donations to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and The Food Depot, two Santa Fe-based organisations. He’s asking for donations to the two organisations through a Prizeo campaign, and there are 60 days left. But feeling good about donating money to a good cause is only half the reward.

For Rs 12 lakh, Martin will name a character after you in an upcoming Song of Ice and Fire novel. You can choose what your character does, and, perhaps best of all, your character will “certainly meet a grisly death”. For Rs 4.5 lakh, you “will be sent one of George’s old Greek sailor caps”. Even if you don’t have that much coin to spend, you can still win a pretty tremendous prize: all donors will be entered into a contest where the prize is to fly out to Santa Fe with a friend to spend a day touring the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary with Martin himself.