King Tops First Round of Auction The online auction for the right to name a character in Stephen King’s forthcoming book CELL yielded a winning bid of $25,100, with proceeds going to the First Amendment Project. The next highest winning bids in the first round of the auction included: Lemony Snicket ($6,350) Michael Chabon ($6,000) Amy Tan ($3,338.88) Peter Straub ($2,125) Jonathan Lethem ($2,025) Karen Jay Fowler ($1,853.88) And here are the leading bids so far in the second round of the auction: John Grisham ($7,940) Nora Roberts ($5,100) Neil Gaiman ($2,750) Brad Meltzer ($810) Dave Eggers ($761) AP NY […]