Karen J Carlisle/ Off the Art board: #AuthorsForFireys #FightFiresWithBooks

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

#AuthorsForFireys #FightFiresWithBooks

All over social media, authors are auctioning books and services to help support the Fireys (Aussie slang for firefighters) and for those who have lost homes, livelihoods, pets and livestock in the current Australian bushfires.

Aunt Enid: Protector Extraordinaire is set in the Adelaide Hills, not far from the ongoing Cudlee Creek fire. Fires have also devastated more than a third of Kangaroo Island, destroying homes, lives, and wildlife (including precious bees). It still rages on.

So, while most auctions are donating to CFA (Eastern States), I ask for your donation bid to go to SERF – State Emergency Relief Fund in South Australia – or the KI Mayoral Relief and Recovery Bushfire Fund, to support Fireys, and families and small businesses who have lost everything in the SA fires.

I’m auctioning:

A signed copy of Aunt Enid: Protector Extraordinaire,

a character named after you in the next Aunt Enid book, A Fey Tale, currently being written and scheduled for release in the first half of 2020. And mention in the acknowledgements,

a visit to your book club (if you are close to Adelaide metro area, unless you want to pay the airfare! Otherwise this will be a skype visit. This will keep the carbon footprint to a minimum.),

a book mark hand-made by me!

a shout out on social media (to let them know how generous you are),

How it works:

The auction is via twitter: ON THIS THREAD. Please do not bid here.

Auction ends Saturday 11^th 11.59 (Australian CST).

The highest bidder will have prizes organised/dispatched once proof of donation has been made to either SERF (https://dhs.sa.gov.au/services/disaster-recovery/accordion-11) or KI Mayoral Relief and Recovery Bushfire Fund (https://www.kangarooisland.sa.gov.au/notice-board/latest-news/ki-mayoral-relief-and-recovery-bushfire-fund)