The winner of this auction will receive one Tuckerization in the fifth Walker Papers novel, DEMON HUNTS, due out in June 2010!

Story synopsis: Police detective Joanne Walker started the year mostly dead, and she's ending it trying not to get eaten. She can cope with gods. She can handle the walking dead. Flesh-eating demons, though, are more than she bargained for. The cannibalistic killer is leaving no tracks behind, so if Joanne's going to find it, she'll have to hunt the hard way: in the Lower World, the shamanistic plane of demons and spirits. The trouble is, Joanne's not ready for the dangers it presents--and the one person who could help her is already lost to the world beyond...

Your chance: Get eaten by a demon--or possibly not. I will use the winner's name as a character in DEMON HUNTS. Can be male or female. I make no guarantees whether the character will survive, nor will I use any other personal details about the winner. Any details which happen to coincide with the winner's personal life will, I assure you, be completely coincidental.

Restrictions: I would prefer the winner to actually offer up his or her own name, rather than make this Tuckerization a gift to someone else. This is mostly because it strikes me that if it's a gift it should be a surprise, but I'm not comfortable surprising somebody with "Hey, you got eaten!" If the winner wants to use someone else's name, I'll have to see written permission from the somebody else so I feel it's okay to do that. Bio: C.E. Murphy is the author of the best-selling urban fantasy series The Walker Papers and The Negotiator, as well as the alternate history fantasy series The Inheritors' Cycle. Excerpts of her work, short stories, and witty repartee can be found at her website, cemurphy.net