Thank you to everyone who donated in every capacity. Your time, effort and support made this auction a success!

The results are in: When we all—authors, illustrators, literary agents, and publishers—join forces to raise money for the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico… we raised over $200,000!

Some auction highlights:

65 agents, 53 editors, 180 authors and illustrators, and many other industry professionals donated their time, talent, and treasure

The auction received over 4,500 bids across 331 individual auction items

The most competitive item received 65 bids

The highest single bid was $10,000

Over 200 people donated in support of the cause without bidding

And the grand total raised for Puerto Rico is…

$206,550

All funds raised went directly to Unidos por Puerto Rico and ConPRmetidos, two carefully vetted local charity organizations.

Once again, thank you to everyone who was a part of this auction to help Puerto Rico. We couldn’t have done it without you. Don’t forget to keep helping Puerto Rico: They still need help and support. Spread the word, donate, call your reps. Everything helps!

And don’t forget to check out our friends at @ USVIPubFund, who are working hard on an auction to help the US Virgin Islands. Thank you, everyone!

#PubforPR is a group of authors, editors, and literary agents who have come together and created this auction to support the relief effort. We include: Dahlia Adler, Patrice Caldwell, Mara Delgado, Carrie DiRisio, Sierra Elmore, Dana Alison Levy, Lily Meade, Jim McCarthy, Joy McCullough, Yamile Saied Méndez, Claribel Ortega, Emily X.R. Pan, Elana Roth Parker, Kara Thomas, Nova Ren Suma, Mekisha Telfer, and Marietta B. Zacker. We can all be reached at PubforPR@gmail.com.

Above: A street in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo ©Doug Zacker