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** Ditto Linda Paquette, the protagonist's love interest, from ''The Good Guy''.
* [[Matthew Reilly]] auctions character names, ranging from a [[Lord of the Rings|Gandalf]] role spanning a trilogy to a spy killed (by jet engine) in his only scene.
* Sean Tourangeau won a contest to design the ''Luna''-class of starships for the ''[[Star Trek: Titan]]'' novel series. The novel with the design in it also established a Dr Tourangeau as one of the design team in-story. Who was [[Death by Cameo|killed horribly]] when the USS ''Luna'' suffered a core breach.
* Robert Asprin's ''[[Myth Adventures|Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections]]'' features a Pervect cabbie who at one point casually mentions bidding for a cameo in a book at an art auction, before adding that [[No Fourth Wall|if he hadn't won, Skeeve would be talking to someone else]].
* in the mid-to-late 1990s, Michael Stackpole auctioned off a cameo appearance in his ''[[BattleTech]]'' novels at the ''[[Gen Con]]'' charity auction, a few of whom became minor recurring characters.
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== Web Original ==
* [http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/dan/ This] ''[[Weebl and Bob (Web Animation)|Weebl and Bob]]'' cartoon had the winner of an Ebay charity auction animated into it. Yes, that's his face with rocket parts on it, being driven by aliens going ''shopping''.