Once again, the writing community has come together to raise funds for the American Red Cross, this time to provide relief for Hurricane Irene victims. And Kristi, Valerie, and myself are happy to be a part of it!
Read for Relief opened the bidding for a 30 page crit from EACH of us! That's three 30 page crits on your YA or MG manuscript! Come check out the auction website and browse the other items up for grabs, along with ours! Happy bidding and good luck!
Bidding closes at 10:00PM EST, Saturday.
Showing posts with label Charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charity. Show all posts
Buy A Shirt, Help Japan!
I posted a while back about Writer's For The Red Cross where you could donate $25 to the Red Cross and pick out a book, or bid on fabulous writing/book related prizes. Now I want to share these awesome t-shirts!
A high-school friend of mine (who is a nurse and a fabulous model and you should check her out) just showed me the t-shirts her fiance Raj Belani (photographer, graphic designer) designed. All donations go directly to The Red Cross.
About the design:
The red circle obviously represents Japan's flag. The gridded nation is supposed to represent the "building block" of Japan. The crack represents just that, a minor crack. Regardless of the magnitude of the earthquake, it's just a minor crack, and Japan being one of the strongest nations, will overcome it. The flourishing flowers represent regrowth...and the person donating to receive one of these items represents hope for someone who was affected by these events.
Awesome, yes? For more info, visit Raj's blog.
A high-school friend of mine (who is a nurse and a fabulous model and you should check her out) just showed me the t-shirts her fiance Raj Belani (photographer, graphic designer) designed. All donations go directly to The Red Cross.
About the design:
The red circle obviously represents Japan's flag. The gridded nation is supposed to represent the "building block" of Japan. The crack represents just that, a minor crack. Regardless of the magnitude of the earthquake, it's just a minor crack, and Japan being one of the strongest nations, will overcome it. The flourishing flowers represent regrowth...and the person donating to receive one of these items represents hope for someone who was affected by these events.
Awesome, yes? For more info, visit Raj's blog.
Writers For The Red Cross
Before you go out and purchase a new book, check out Writers for the Red Cross. If you donate $25 to the Red Cross via WFTRC, you'll be sent a book of your choosing from what they have on their donated shelves.
Debbie from inkyelbows, is also donating a hand-illustrated custom poem to the highest bidder. Her package will be up for auction until March 20th. Details on that here.
They have a lot of great books on hand, but only a limited supply available, so if you can, donate today, and please spread the word!
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And in other news, my critique partner Valerie Kemp is featured at Dear Teen Me today with a letter to her 13 year-old self. You truly don't want to miss what she has to say.
Debbie from inkyelbows, is also donating a hand-illustrated custom poem to the highest bidder. Her package will be up for auction until March 20th. Details on that here.
They have a lot of great books on hand, but only a limited supply available, so if you can, donate today, and please spread the word!
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And in other news, my critique partner Valerie Kemp is featured at Dear Teen Me today with a letter to her 13 year-old self. You truly don't want to miss what she has to say.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Screenwriters!!!
My crit partner Valerie is offering up a screenplay critique! Not only is she an incredible YA writer, she's also an Indie film maker! Go bid! All proceeds go to Nashville flood relief.
Valerie's blog:http://valeriekwrites.blogspot.com/
Valerie's films:http://blackbird-films.com/
Do the Write Thing for Nashville
In case you haven't heard, Tennessee was hit with major flooding. Nashville is under water. More than half of Tennessee's 95 counties has been marked as disaster area.
Taylor Swift has donated $500,000 to flood relief! As if we needed more reasons to adore her. Do your part if you can and bid on some amazing prizes over at http://dothewritethingfornashville.blogspot.com/
Leave A Mark Book Auction!
It's for a good cause, and worth checking out, especially for aspiring writers. Get the insiders look on your favorite YA novels with "Marked up" copies straight from the author!
Thank you everyone for making this year's auctions such a success so far. Remember to spread the word and start your bidding for the next Leave a Mark auction: If I Stay by Gayle Forman. This is one amazing book that was a huge hit in the YA world. I for one can't wait to read more by Gayle as well as see the movie version of If I Stay, which is to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight, and Lords of Dogtown)!!!
Facts and Rules
-We have a new book up for auction every week or two and you leave your bids in the comments.
-Leave a Mark is all about marked up books. That means you aren't just bidding for a book you could buy in stores or a signed book you could get from a regular signing. These books have notes/behind-the-scenes looks into their story written by the author in the margins or on post-it notes, etc. It's up to them to decide how they "mark it up."
-Once the auction has ended for a particular book, we contact the highest bidder and they will donate their money to First Book through this link here: http://www.firstbook.org/leaveamark
-The winner will then get a confirmation email from First Book, which you will forward to my email : lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
-Once we have that, your book will be sent out either by me, Chelsea, or the author (if they are holding on to their book)
-The next auction will always start up as soon as possible after one has ended and the bidding starts all over again!
-You CAN bid on more than one book and you CAN win more than one book. This all goes to a great charity so we aren't stingy on who and win someone can enter
-By the way, since this IS charity, you can enter from wherever but the bids will be in American dollars so it's easiest for us to understand
-If you ever have questions, please email me: Lauren51990 AT aol DOT com or check out our sites:
http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/ (this is me, Lauren)
http://www.thepageflipper.blogspot.com/ (this is Chelsea, my partner in crime of Leave a Mark)
Now, it's time to start bidding, so here are those rules...
1. The first bid must always start at $10 at least, but you can go higher for the first bid.
2. Each subsequent bid must go up in $1 dollar increments. Ex. $10, $11, $15...whatever!
3. This particular auction will end on Sunday, November 15 at 11:59 P.M. EST
4. More info on the book: http://www.gayleforman.com/
5. As an extra incentive, I am offering bonus points for my giveaways. Each time you bid (even if you don't win and even if you keep bidding on the same book) you will be given 5 extra bonus points into a giveaway of your choice on my site:http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/
ex: if you bid two times on one auction, you get 10 points to do whatever you wish. Keep them for a future giveaway or add them all to one or split them up into many!
Remember, get in touch if you have questions and please spread the word about this. Link to the site. Make a blog post. Whatever! We want people to find some awesome marked up books and hopefully raise a lot of money for First Book. These auctions will all end at the end of December so keep a look out for who is coming up!
Auction #4 is IF I STAY by Gayle Forman. You might remember my review of this book, but if not you can see it here.
I'm going to copy and paste from the auction blog. Make sure you DO NOT BID HERE. Any discussion or bidding needs to be done on the "Leave a Mark" blog, not mine.
Thank you everyone for making this year's auctions such a success so far. Remember to spread the word and start your bidding for the next Leave a Mark auction: If I Stay by Gayle Forman. This is one amazing book that was a huge hit in the YA world. I for one can't wait to read more by Gayle as well as see the movie version of If I Stay, which is to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight, and Lords of Dogtown)!!!Facts and Rules
-We have a new book up for auction every week or two and you leave your bids in the comments.
-Leave a Mark is all about marked up books. That means you aren't just bidding for a book you could buy in stores or a signed book you could get from a regular signing. These books have notes/behind-the-scenes looks into their story written by the author in the margins or on post-it notes, etc. It's up to them to decide how they "mark it up."
-Once the auction has ended for a particular book, we contact the highest bidder and they will donate their money to First Book through this link here: http://www.firstbook.org/leaveamark
-The winner will then get a confirmation email from First Book, which you will forward to my email : lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
-Once we have that, your book will be sent out either by me, Chelsea, or the author (if they are holding on to their book)
-The next auction will always start up as soon as possible after one has ended and the bidding starts all over again!
-You CAN bid on more than one book and you CAN win more than one book. This all goes to a great charity so we aren't stingy on who and win someone can enter
-By the way, since this IS charity, you can enter from wherever but the bids will be in American dollars so it's easiest for us to understand
-If you ever have questions, please email me: Lauren51990 AT aol DOT com or check out our sites:
http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/ (this is me, Lauren)
http://www.thepageflipper.blogspot.com/ (this is Chelsea, my partner in crime of Leave a Mark)
Now, it's time to start bidding, so here are those rules...
1. The first bid must always start at $10 at least, but you can go higher for the first bid.
2. Each subsequent bid must go up in $1 dollar increments. Ex. $10, $11, $15...whatever!
3. This particular auction will end on Sunday, November 15 at 11:59 P.M. EST
4. More info on the book: http://www.gayleforman.com/
5. As an extra incentive, I am offering bonus points for my giveaways. Each time you bid (even if you don't win and even if you keep bidding on the same book) you will be given 5 extra bonus points into a giveaway of your choice on my site:http://www.shootingstarsmag.blogspot.com/
ex: if you bid two times on one auction, you get 10 points to do whatever you wish. Keep them for a future giveaway or add them all to one or split them up into many!
Remember, get in touch if you have questions and please spread the word about this. Link to the site. Make a blog post. Whatever! We want people to find some awesome marked up books and hopefully raise a lot of money for First Book. These auctions will all end at the end of December so keep a look out for who is coming up!
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