Manuscript Appraisals for Aspiring Writers, Starting Monday, 6pm!

October 14, 2018 By Josephine Moon in Uncategorized Tags: appraisal, aspiring, assessment, auction, australian, author, bid, buy a bale, drought, ebay, farmers, hachette, manuscript, opportunities, publisher, rural aid, Sophie green, Sophie hamley, writers Leave a comment

Calling all writers!

Your chance to win yourself a RARE opportunity for feedback on your work in progress from a leading Australian publisher or author is nearly here!

Round 1 bidding begins on ebay, Monday October 15 at 6pm!

This round includes:

Publisher, Sophie Green:

https://josephinemoon.com/2018/09/14/

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Author, Jenn J McLeod

https://josephinemoon.com/2018/09/17/win-a-manuscript-assessment-with-author-jenn-j-mcleod/

Author, Michael Trant

https://josephinemoon.com/2018/09/19/win-a-manuscript-assessment-with-author-michael-trant/

To find the auction you’re interested in, just search ‘Authors for Farmers’ and the person’s name.

This is a fundraiser initiative with proceeds going to Buy a Bale (Rural Aid) to assist Australian farmers experiencing hardship through drought.

I can’t wait to see what talent is unearthed in this process.

Best of luck!

Win Writing Mentoring for Family History or Community Stories, or Young People Writing Fiction, with Author Melinda Tognini

October 4, 2018 By Josephine Moon in Uncategorized Tags: auction, authors for farmers, bid, buy a bale, community, drought, ebay, family, fundraising, history, josephine moon, Melinda tognini, mentor, mentoring, stories, town, writing Leave a comment

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This is a special auction in our fundraiser to raise funds for Buy a Bale. Author Melinda Tognini is offering up to ten hours of mentoring for you or your family or community group. Being interested in the ‘hidden stories’ of our society, Melinda would love to work with you to help you get your story down on paper.

Melinda is also happy to work with young people who are writing fiction.

Here is some information about Melinda and what she is offering.

If you have a story to tell, then make sure you keep following along and bid, bid, bid to win Melinda’s attention!

Melinda’s offer will be on eBay in the THIRD round of auctions, starting 19 October 6pm.

Welcome, Melinda!

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Bio: Melinda Tognini is the author of Many Hearts, One Voice: the story of the War Widows’ Guild, and has been teaching and running workshops for more than 20 years. She is passionate about telling ‘invisible’ stories and empowering others to find their voice.

Why are you excited to mentor? Other than wanting to help our farmers, I love sharing what I’ve learned from listening to people’s stories, and researching community, local history and family history projects.

Genres: family history, community, history, autobiography, biography, general non-fiction.

Length of mentorship: up to 10 hours (reading and mentoring)

Communication: phone, email, Skype, in person

Reply time: by negotiation

Auction reserve: $149

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Interested? Of course you are! Stay tuned by following me on Facebook, Twitter or here on this blog to make sure you get all the news in the lead up to this exciting event!

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AUTHORS FOR FARMERS is an initiative by Australian author Josephine Moon (www.josephinemoon.com) to band together fellow authors from around the country to help with drought relief fundraising for Australian farmers. All money raised goes to BUY A BALE (registered charity, http://www.buyabale.com.au).

(Please note: Ebay charges fees for using its platform and these will be will be deducted from the total donation amount at the end.)

Authors for Farmers: 100 Books for $100,000. Final List of Books.

August 23, 2018 By Josephine Moon in Uncategorized Tags: australian, authors, books, buy a bale, drought, financial aid, giant, josephine moon, memoir, novels, raffle, relief, tickets, win, writers Leave a comment

promo authors

I’m setting the bar stupendously high and aiming for $100,000 for our farmers. Think we can do it? We’ll never know if we don’t try!

Get your tickets here!

Here is the final list of books in the prize pool:

Josephine Moon	Three Gold Coins + The Chocolate Promise
Nick Earls	Analogue Men
Monica McInerney	Trio of Quinlan novels: The Alphabet Sisters, Lola’s Secret, Trip of a Lifetime, signed
Rachael Johns	Talk of the Town + The Greatest Gift
Katherine Howell	Web of Deceit (US hardback), signed
Nicki Edwards	The Peppercorn Project
Liz Byrski	A Month of Sundays
Karen Viggers	The Lightkeeper’s Wife
Michael Trant	Ridgeview Station
Louise Allen	The Sister’s Song
Annie Seaton	Come Back to Me + Her Outback Playboy
Sandie Docker	The Kookaburra Café
Eleanor Limprecht	The Passengers
Nene Davies	Distance
Aoiffe Clifford	All These Perfect Strangers + Second Sight
Elise McCune	Castle of Dreams
Monique Mulligan	Writing the Dream
S.D. Wasley	The Seventh
Emily Madden	The Lost Pearl
Pamela Cook	Close to Home + The Crossroads
Tess Woods	Beautiful Messy Love
Fiona Palmer	Sisters and Brothers, Secrets Between friends, The Road Home, The Family Secret & The Saddler Boys, The Family Farm
Vanessa Carnevale	The Florentine Bridge + The Memories that Make Us
Christine Wells	The Juliet Code
Love Sabre (Kristine Charles)	Love Sabre Anthology
Helene McCarthy	A Quiet Hero
Katie Rowney	Front Page News
Louise Guy	Everyday Lies
Nadia L. King	Jenna’s Truth
Amanda Knight	Situation Critical
Sally Hepworth	The Secrets of Midwives, The Family Next Door, The Mother’s Promise, The Things We Keep
Kylie Ladd	The Way Back
Susan Johnson	The Landing
Elizabeth Foster	Esme’s Wish
Adele Dumont	No Man is an Island
Cassandra Austin	All Fall Down
Jennie Jones	The House at the Bottom of the Hill
Shirley Patton	The Secrets We Keep
Beth Prentice	Dangerous Deeds
Phillipa Nefri Clark	Jasmine Sea + The Station Master’s Cottage
V.P. Colombo	A Little Bite of Happiness
Laura Sams	Crazy Busy Guilty
Lisa Ireland	The Shape of Us
Kelly Rimmer	Before I Let You Go
Melissa Schembri	How to Find Your Dream Job in 21 Days
Susanne Bellamy et. al.	Hearts of the Town
Anna Daniels	Girl in Between
Reba A Booth	Hosts of Erravilla
Jane Gillespie	Journey to Me
Joanna Nell	The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village
Kate Forsyth	Beauty in Thorns
Racel Watts	Survival
Margareta Osborn	Mountain Ash
Ellie O’Neal	The Right Girl
Michelle Endersby	Awakening Around Roses
Darry Fraser	Daughter of the Murray + Where The Murray River Runs
Amanda Hampson	The French Perfumer + The Yellow Villa
Maddison Michaels	The Elusive Earl + The Devilish Duke
Andy Muir	Something for Nothing
Claire Varley	The Book of Ordinary People
Fleur McDonald	Fools Gold, Suddenly One Summer, What Does a Horse Say?
S.L. Mills	GOM’s Gold
Alicia Gilmore	Path to the Night Sea
Melinda Terranova	Bequeathed
Ben Hobson	To Become a Whale
Mark Brandi	Wimmera
Liane Moriarty	Nine Perfect Strangers
Anita Heiss	Tiddas
Kirsty Manning	The Jade Lily
A.L. Tait	The Book of Secrets
Benjamin Law	The Family Law
Christian White	The Nowhere Child
Dervla McTiernan	The Ruin
Brooke Davis	Lost and Found
Jessica Rowe	Is This My Beautiful Life?
Sophie Laguna	The Choke
Tim Winton	The Shepherd’s Hut

1st prize: 75 books

2nd prize: 15 books + $30 Dymocks voucher

3rd prize: 10 books

Open to Australian postal addresses only. Books will be posted directly to the winners from the authors. Prize drawn 2 October 2018.

Updated: Authors for Farmers

August 17, 2018 By Josephine Moon in Uncategorized Tags: australian, authors, authors for farmers, books, buy a bale, buy tickets, drought, farmers, fundraising, josephine moon, kate forsyth, kelly rimmer, liane moriarty, liz byrski, mark brandi, monica mcinerney, nick earls, novels, Rachael johns, relief, sally hepworth Leave a comment

Authors for Farmers

Giant Raffle

100 Books on Offer with money going to Buy a Bale

Buy tickets here

1st prize: 75 books by Australian authors

2nd prize: 15 books by Australian authors + $30 Dymocks gift card

3rd prize: 10 books by Australian authors

BUY NOW

Authors include: Liane Moriarty, Monica McInerney, Nick Earls, Rachael Johns, Sally Hepworth, Kate Forsyth, Kelly Rimmer, Liz Byrski, Mark Brandi and so many more!