Mohammad and his wife Shahd are expecting a baby in the coming weeks, possibly days. Their baby will be born in a tent surrounded by bombs and hunger. We want to be able to get them enough money to buy supplies and nutritious food for Shahd...anything to make things even a tiny bit easier

This is the Al-Najar family, one of the families the raffle is benefiting. Hamada has been living with shrapnel near his lungs and heart since the aid site where was trying to get flour from was shelled. He needs money to afford surgery to have the shrapnel removed.

Few other details:

-If you don’t have PayPal, please contact me for an alternative method

-Because of the high cost of shipping, this is a US only raffle. However, donations of any size from anyone are very much appreciated and welcomed.

To enter:

Each entry is $10. You can enter multiple times

Send entries via PayPal to hesterbfox@gmail.com (please check “family and friends” in paypal)
Write in the note what prize # you are entering for

Raffle runs until 12pm EST Friday (Oct 3rd)

PRIZE #5: Bundle of three vintage paperback Gothics from my collection. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1968), WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (1962), REBECCA (1961)

PRIZE #4: Tarot Book Club Bundle: Goddess Tarot creator @kriswaldherr.bsky.social will Zoom with your book club to read tarot cards for you and discuss her novel The Lost History of Dreams. This bundle includes six autographed hardcovers

PRIZE #3: Signed book bundle of Diana Biller books THE WIDOW OF ROSE HOUSE, THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN PARIS, HOTEL OF SECRETS

PRIZE #2: A critique from Gothic romance author Natalie Kikic on your query letter AND the first 10 pages of your manuscript

PRIZE #1: an epic book bundle of nine gothic novels from authors @janyretromp.bsky.social @megancollinswriter.bsky.social @tanyapell.bsky.social @dawnkurtagich.bsky.social Katharine Beutner, Marielle Thompson, Paulette Kennedy

I’ve teamed up with some amazing authors to fundraise for four families in G/za. Direct aid is one of the most effective ways to help right now, as food, medicine, hygiene supplies, etc are prohibitively expensive.

A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING ebook is currently on sale for $5.99 across platforms

If anyone is looking to give direct aid to a family in Gaza, my friend Mohammad is desperately trying to raise enough money to buy a bag of flour to help feed his family of 14. This is his GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-mo...

Books to read for this moment in time. Have you read any of these?

Still a few days left to enter to win a finished copy of my gender-flipped The Little Mermaid retelling set in the Dutch golden age:

www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-magic-de...

A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING is my gender-flipped reimagining of The Little Mermaid set in the Dutch golden age, and is now available for pre-order 💙

bookshop.org/p/books/a-ma...