Tuckerizations for 2025 ArvCon (Memorial Day Weekend)

Every year, author Greg Wilson AKA Arvan Eleron runs a charity stream on his twitch channel to support the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Here’s a quick Bluesky thread about ArvCon from Greg. Our goal this year is to raise $5000 for them.

VIRTUAL EVENT

While ArvCon run all Memorial Day weekend, I will be streaming with my Eberron crew all day on Sunday, May 25, from 9am to 5pm Pacific. If you donate on Sunday, we get the credit. Of course, we are competing against the other games on the ArvanEleron channel. Of course, any donation in the channel’s name is a good one.

Donate anytime here: https://tiltify.com/@arvaneleron/arvcon2025 and please put something about me (Jennifer Brozek) or “Eberron” in the comments so we get the credit for it.

TUCKERIZATIONS

This year, I am gifting two tuckerizations in the donators’ raffle on Sunday, May 25th, that will be going on during the weekend stream. Tuckerization: I use a name you give me in a story.

This year, I have two different aquatic-themed anthologies I’m writing for. One is about pirates. One is about water based monsters. I decided to write one story from two different perspectives: The pirates’ POV (“More than Blood in the Water”) and one from the monster’s POV (“On Risks and Rewards”). You can be named for one of the pirates or one of the deep ones. Male or female. Don’t expect to make it out alive, and remember, I only kill those I like.

Logline: A pirate ship fishing for food after being lost for weeks, accidentally catches a young deep one hybrid. When they reveal themselves (shifting from aquatic form to human form) to be the child of someone important, the pirates attempt to do what pirates do in such a situation: demand a ransom for the hybrid’s release.

This is my third or fourth (fifth?) year I have participated in ArvCon. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation is worth your time, money, and attention.

Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and multiple Hugo Awards. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.