Goodnight, and Good Luck - with your bids at the Children in Read charity book auction! - by Alex Marchant
This is my last regular blog post for Authors Electric, so I would like to say farewell and thank you to everyone who has read and commented on my posts over the past couple of years, and for the support of both my fellow author/bloggers and readers.
It’s been an exciting time for me
since publishing my first children’s novel The Order of the White Boar in October 2017, and I’ve enjoyed
sharing the ups and downs of life as a newbie indie author with you all. But I’ve
come to realize that a commitment to writing a monthly blog results in time
spent away from getting on with the novel writing itself (which is already
rather far down the pecking order in terms of time spent). So I’ve sadly
decided to call it a day.
But I’m calling it a day on a day
when the launch has happened of a wonderful charity auction of books! For the
next 62 days, until the Friday that is the annual BBC Children in Need day, an
auction of more than 500 titles across a range of genres will be underway at https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninread2020
Children in Read was started
several years ago by Paddy Heron to run alongside and raise money for Children
in Need (for more details of the latter and its 30+ years of fundraising, go to https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/),
and so far it has raised many thousands of pounds. This year’s auction was
launched at midnight and after only 14 hours the total so far bid already
stands at more than £2,200.
The books and other items on offer (mostly signed) cover every genre you could think of and have been donated by myriad authors, including many who are stratospherically famous alongside others who are less so. This year they include authors from Phillip Pullman to Nigella Lawson, and from Carole Matthews to Robbie Fowler and Mary Beard. And of course yours truly (not yet in the stratospheric category…).
I’m delighted to have a signed
copy of The Order of the White Boar
on offer. You can find it at Lot 122, in the ‘historical fiction’ section,
rather than under children or young adult, so I’m rubbing shoulders with the
likes of Bernard Cornwell and Maggie O’Farrell, who has of course just won the
2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her ‘masterful’ Hamnet (the book on offer here – I doubt the current bid of £11 will
win…).
https://www.jumblebee.co.uk/childreninread2020?cid=1635#buzz_expend_100544
So be sure to take yourself off
to the auction page and browse the many titles on offer. You’re bound to spot
one or two (or far more) that would be a joy to read and enhance your
bookcases. And of course, it’s all in an exceptionally good cause too. Good
luck with your bids!
And thank you again for spending
time with me and my musings over the past two and half years. Should you wish
to keep up to date with my writing (work on ‘King in Waiting’ is now rounding
the final corner and about to kick on to the home straight), please do sign up
to my blog at https://alexmarchantblog.wordpress.com, find me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AlexMarchantAuthor/,
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Take care and stay safe everyone!
Comments
Stay well,
eden