Mushens Entertainment authors have shown up to support publishing charity auction #BooksForVaccines, helping to raise money to vaccinate the world against COVID-19. In total, 13 Mushens Entertainment authors have offered lots, from signed copies to editorial notes and mentoring sessions. Agency founder Juliet Mushens is offering to critique an aspiring writer’s cover letter and first 25 pages.

Books For Vaccines is a volunteer-run charity auction to raise money for Care International, who in turn are raising funds to help vaccinate the world against the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID pandemic has hit us all hard, but there is no denying that certain countries have been harder hit than others. Until we are all vaccinated, the world will not be free from the pandemic and people will continue to suffer. The aim of this auction is to raise money to help Care International to vaccinate the world (not just the UK). 

More information on Care International and what they do can be found on their website.

Bidding for all lots closes at 11:59pm GMT on Friday May 21. More information about Books For Vaccines can be found here. Best of luck, and get bidding!

Mentoring

Agency founder Juliet Mushens is offering a critique of a cover letter and first 25 pages of a novel (YA or adult). 

Katie Lowe is generously giving a set of 6 mentoring sessions for aspiring writers, offering monthly one hour Zoom calls to discuss a work-in-progress.

Aliya Ali-Afzal is offering two 1-hour mentoring sessions (1, 2) on submitting to agents or creative writing. Aliya will also review your cover letter and 5,000 words if helpful, or your synopsis.

Sunday Times bestselling author of 7 novels and creative writing lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University Laura Lam is offering an online mentoring session for up to 20k words of material.

Book bundles and signed copies

Richard Osman has donated a rare, signed, limited-edition hardback proof of his bestselling debut novel The Thursday Murder Club - this is one of only 100 copies!

A signed, first edition hardback of the bestselling debut Ariadne is up for grabs from author Jennifer Saint.

One of the biggest debut novelists of 2021, Abigail Dean is offering a personalised, signed copy of her instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Girl A.

Million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton, is giving away a signed copy of her Sunday Times Bestseller The Confession.

As well as a mentoring session (see above), Laura Lam is offering signed copies of two of her novels, with the winner able to choose two from Goldilocks, Seven Devils, False Hearts, or Shattered Minds.

Lia Louis is offering personalised signed copies of her bestselling books Dear Emmie Blue and Somewhere Close to Happy.

Claire Douglas has given a bundle of three of her bestselling thrillers: Then She Vanishes, Just Like The Other Girls and The Couple At No 9.

James Oswald has given signed hardbacks of his bestselling crime novels Bury Them Deep and What Will Burn.

Nell Pattison is offering a book bundle of signed copies of her Paige Northwood series: The Silent House, Silent Night, and The Silent Suspect.

Signed editions of Asking For It and After the Silence are up for grabs from award-winning author Louise O’Neill.

Thriller writer Jen Williams is giving away a signed first edition of her novel Dog Rose Dirt, as well as a personalised digital artwork.