#SignForOurBookshops and Books to Nourish Ending Soon!

#SignForOurBookshops

This Lockdown I'm thrilled to be part of the #SignForOurBookshops
campaign.

As you know the UK is back in Lockdown, From November 5th to December 1st. With everything shut again in this crucial lead up to the holidays, this lockdown is going to be especially hard on small businesses, which includes bookshops. So in support of bookshops, me, and over 200 other authors, will be sending bookplates to anyone with a UK or Irish address (depending on the location of the author) who buys our books from a bookshop, instead of an online only retailer, during the period of the 4 week lockdown.

Because signed books make great Holiday gifts and you can only get them from bookshops!

To receive a signed bookplate from me, all you have to do is email proof of purchase of any of my books from a U.K bookshop to:

alwynhamiltoninfo@gmail.com

Please aslo include: Your mailing address and any personalised name/message you want, and I'll get that in the post to you ASAP.

You can buy from any bookshop you like, and if you don't know where to buy from you can find your local bookshop on this handy map, shop directly from Bookshop.org to support independant bookstores (and even check out my page here with my books and a bunch of my fave recommended books on it).

And I'll just add that, as a bonus, if you buy my books specifically from my local independant bookshop The Alligator's Mouth (or from their bookshop.org page) you will ALSO receive some exclusive NOTORIOUS VIRTUES swag (to make it easy Buy REBEL here, Buy TRAITOR here, and email here about HERO coming back into stock) And if you buy from Waterstones you will receive some REBEL OF THE SANDS swag.

Now, if you and the other readers in your life already have all my books, there are more than 200 other authors participating. To find out who, you can browse the #SignForOurBookshops hashtag on twitter or you can check out this Bookshops.org shelf which lists many of the titles you can buy and get signed! (Just check each author's social media for details of where to request your bookplate.)

If you're stumped and want some recommendations, here's a handful of them!

Any questions check out Holly Bourne's page on this as she is the main organizer of this campaign!

Books to Nourish

It's also the last few days left to bid for Books to Nourish!

MPs in the UK have voted against making free school meals available to children outside of term time for the next six months, and the pandemic has hit many families hard. In order to help in any small we cak the book community is running Books to Nourish, a volunteer-run charity auction to raise money for FareShare, the UK’s longest running food redistribution charity. More information on FareShare can be found on its website.

So if you want to help out and win some awesome bookish items check out the list of Auction Lots up for Grabs on Books to Nourish.

For my contribution I have donated Lot 5: A Set Of Signed Books, Lot 6: A Query Critique & Lot 49: Submission Package Critique.

For other items I want to recommend:
Lot 57: A Chat with Molly Ker Hawn (my agent) about publishing etc.
Lot 50: A Submission Package Critique by Agent Gemma Cooper
Lot 32: A Query Package Critique from Agent Juliet Mushens
Lot 98: A Selection of Faber special editions
Lot 124: Cover letter critique from Author/Editor Non Pratt