The Lost Children Charity Anthologies: welcome

Monday, October 17, 2011

welcome

The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology will be available for purchase on Amazon, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble beginning November 1st 2011.

The challenge began on Flash Fiction Friday, when author Fiona Johnson was guest writer for the fiction prompt, and asked us to write about the lost children. She asked photographer Danielle Tunstall for
permission to use the arresting photo shown in the right sidebar, and said:

Some children are lost before they have even started living. Some children are a throw-away commodity like a burger box that’s left to blow down the street in the wind and rain.

I offered to donate $5 for each story submitted to PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children, and Fiona would donate $5 to Children 1st, a children's charity in Scotland. Together we raised $300 for each of the charities thanks to the generous and creative writing communities of Flash Fiction Friday, Fictionaut, and the crime fiction community on Twitter.

It was such a success that we thought we could go further. Ron Earl Phillips, Fiona and I chose 30 of the best stories to put in a charity anthology, all proceeds of which will go to PROTECT and Children 1st. We will post the quarterly sales and donations here on the blog. Amazon and the vendors do take a cut, so if you'd like to donate more, the links to the charities are in the right hand sidebar.

The contributors to the anthology include:

David Ackley

Kevin Aldrich
David Barber
Lynn Beighley
Seamus Bellamy
Paul D Brazill
Sif Dal
James Lloyd Davis
Roberto C. Garcia
Susan Gibb
Nancy A. Hansen
K.V. Hardy
Gill Hoffs
Fiona Johnson
Joyce F. Juzwik
Maryanne Kolton
Benoit Lelievre
Veronica Marie
Vinod Narayan
Paula Pahnke
Ron Earl Phillips
Thomas Pluck
Sam Rasnake
JP Reese
Chad Rohrbacher
Susan Tepper
Luca Veste
Michael Webb
Nicolette Wong
Erin Zulkoski

Links to purchase this anthology will appear here as publication date approaches.

-Thomas

2 comments:

David BarberOctober 18, 2011 at 4:48 AM
Excellent. A great line-up for 2 very worthy causes. Well done to everyone involved, especially Fiona. Thomas and Ron.
ReplyDelete
Replies
UnknownOctober 24, 2011 at 8:58 PM
First... what an amazing job you have done here... this is obviously a labor of love and something dear to your hearts, as it is to all of us.

A small thing... in the contributor list, you have me as Veronica Marie. Would it be possible to list my full name?

Veronica Marie Lewis-Shaw

This will be the name I go by for all of my published works.

Thank you.
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

What's the story behind the project?

Protectors:
The Lost Children Charity Anthology was such a success, that Thomas Pluck decided to collect stories from a variety of authors to benefit PROTECT, a lobby whose victories against child abuse include the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008, the Hero to Hero program, and Alicia's Law. He collected 41 stories from all new authors. Thanks to the inspiration of goodhearted people like Fiona Johnson, and the people of PROTECT who fight the abuse and exploitation of our children every day, the book is a reality, and 100% of proceeds benefit PROTECT.

For the first anthology:
The challenge began on Flash Fiction Friday, when author Fiona Johnson was guest writer for the fiction prompt, and asked us to write about the lost children. She asked photographer Danielle Tunstall for permission to use the arresting photo shown in the right sidebar, and said:

Some children are lost before they have even started living. Some children are a throw-away commodity like a burger box that’s left to blow down the street in the wind and rain.

100% of royalties donated to two causes:

OUR DONATION RECORD

PROTECT and The National Association to Protect Children (USA)

The National Association to Protect Children is a national, pro-child, anti-crime membership association founded on the belief that our first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens, and members of the human species is the protection of children from harm.

PROTECT is a bipartisan pro-child, anti-crime lobby whose sole focus is making the protection of children a top political and policy priority at the national, state and local level.

You can read about PROTECT's Victories here.

100% of the proceeds of Protectors, and 50% of the proceeds of Lost Children: A Charity Anthology, are donated to PROTECT.

This is an independently organized event, not officially sponsored by [NAPC/PROTECT]

Children 1st (UK)

Children 1st has 125 years experience of working with children and families, previously as the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSSPCC). Today, they support families under stress, protect children from harm and neglect, help them to recover from abuse and promote children's rights and interests. You can read more about their work with children here.

50% of proceeds of the Lost Children Charity Anthology go to Children 1st.

This is an independently organized event, not officially sponsored by Children 1st.