Work With Foster Youth or Adoptees? Request a Mini Library!
I’ve been really blessed with the team at Flux, and how they’ve kept pushing my books with them.
As regulars know, my adoption-themed anthology Welcome Home, published in 2017 with that team, with a huge roster of authors writing very short stories centering around that theme. I promised back then all my royalties would go towards stocking up on books to send to organizations that work with foster youth and/or adoptees, and since then, I’ve been lucky enough to send nearly a thousand books out and about.
Royalties hit, and we’re doing it again.
So! If you’re an organization that works with foster youth or adoptees, whether you run a youth center or an outreach program, and are interested in getting a small library for your center, give me shout.
This season’s bundle of books include titles by Lamar Giles, Gillian French, Megan Bannen, Michelle Falkoff, Nina LaCour, David Arnold (who was kind enough to blurb the anthology way back when!), Brandy Colbert, Arvin Ahmadi, Joy McCullough, Stephanie Kuehn, Somaiya Daud, Caleb Roehrig, Tanaz Bhathena, Akemi Dawn Bowman, Sandhya Menon, Rachel Lynn Solomon, Kathryn Ormsbee, Danielle Paige, Jennifer Mathieu, and Ashley Woodfolk.
As well as books by Shannon Gibney, Courtney Stevens, Adi Alsaid, and Natasha Sinel, who are in the Welcome Home collection, and honestly, whatever extra books from my agent life I have sitting around.
How do you apply to get one of these boxes? Just shoot me an email, with little details about you, your organization, and the kids you work with. Simple as that, don’t feel like you need to write an essay. I’m just here to give books away. If you’re worried that your organization doesn’t have a proper bookshelf for a little library for your teens, let me know. I will buy you the bookshelves. <3
I’ll choose TWO organizations at the end of December to get these books, likely sent off in early January.
Name:
Organization:
Information:
Organization Website:
Email me at ericsmithrocks at gmail dot com. Please note, that it takes me a minute to mail these, as it’s hard to carry several boxes of books to the local post office.
And thank you, whoever you are reading this, for the work that you do, helping kids like me. <3