I join my colleagues in a very heartfelt thank you to Thomas Pluck, Fiona Johnson and Ron Earl Phillips for their tireless efforts in seeing The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology to its fruition.
I would be remiss if I did not make a special thank you to artist and photographer extraordinaire Danielle Tunstall for her generous permission to use one of her photographs on the cover of the e-book and paperback as well as The Lost Children Anthology websites, and to Sarah Bennett Pluck for her incredible work producing the cover for this anthology.
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“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.” – Fiona Johnson
This is how it started.
A prompt on Flash Fiction Friday – A Community Writing Project. Guest moderator, author Fiona Johnson, asked us to write a story about lost children. Our inspiration was the heart-wrenching photograph by Danielle Tunstall shown below.
Thomas Pluck offered to donate $5 for each story submitted to PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children. Fiona in turn pledged to donate $5 to Children 1st, a children’s charity in Scotland. Together , $600 was raised for the two charities, thanks to the generous and creative writing communities of Flash Fiction Friday, Fictionaut; as well as the crime fiction community on Twitter.
43 entries were submitted. The flash fiction challenge was such a success that Thomas, Fiona and Ron decided to take it further… they would publish an anthology, with 100% of the e-book proceeds going to the two charities PROTECT and Children 1st. Ron, Fiona and Thomas chose 30 of the best stories for the anthology.
50% of the e-book proceeds will go to Children 1st, which is a children’s charity based in Scotland. The other 50% of the e-book proceeds will go to PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children. PROTECT is based in the United States.
More information about PROTECT and Children 1st can be found at their respective websites..
Lost Children: A Charity Anthology is available at Amazon, Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon France, Smashwords, Apple iBookstore, and Barnes & Noble. Please help us support these charities and help a child. With Christmas just around the corner, this anthology will make a wonderful gift for family and friends. Links for Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords are just to the right, under the anthology’s cover image.
The e-book anthology is available in the following formats:
$2.99 for Kindle, Kindle Cloud Reader and Kindle for Phone and Desktop at Amazon
$2.99 for Adobe PDF, epub format, mobi format, Kobo, Sony e-reader and readable online at Smashwords
$2.99 for Nook in the Barnes & Noble store (also available via Smashwords, if you use Calibre e-book manager)
$2.99 at the Apple iBookstore
Thomas has lately been burning the candle far into the night to prepare a print edition, which will soon be available through Amazon and Createspace. This should be ready in time to give as a Christmas gift, for either yourself or friends and family.
Thank you.
P.S
If you would like a little background on my story, LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN, please visit http://networkedblogs.com/p8p99. I am humbled and and honoured to have my story selected and to be part of this amazing project. By buying the anthology, you too can help a very worthwhile cause.
Veronica The Pajama Thief 