# Authors unite with book for tsunami disaster charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/03/23/authors-unite-book-tsunami-disaster-charities/
- Published: 2005-03-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**An international group of well-known authors have donated material to a book published
by Bloomsbury to raise funds for charities involved in responding to the Indian 
Ocean tsunami disaster of 26 December 2004.**

The 16 writers have donated work from their forthcoming books. “New Beginnings” ,
with an introduction by Helen Fielding, was published by Bloomsbury on World Book
Day, 3 March 2005, and is priced at £5.

![New Beginnings, with introduction by Helen Fielding (cover)](https://wfay6x.infiniteuploads.
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New Beginnings, with introduction by Helen Fielding

Participating authors include Nick Hornby, Tracy Chevalier, Vickram Seth, Alexander
McCall Smith, Joanna Trollope, Scott Turow, Stephen King, and J.M. Coetzee.

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Bloomsbury will be publishing the book in the UK, in the States through Bloomsbury
USA and in Germany through their German company Berlin Verlag.

At least £4.82 of the £5 cover price will reach the charities as the authors, publishers,
distributors, carriers and booksellers have all donated their services. 
Royal Bank
of Scotland, Bloomsbury’s bank, donated £10,000 towards the printing costs of the
book.

Once the figures become available, Bloomsbury says that it will publish monthly 
sales figures on its website showing exactly how much has been raised through book
sales and where the money will go.

The book benefited from donated advertising on London Underground from 1 March, 
together with extensive online advertising. All Bloomsbury and Curtis Brown staff
were encouraged to send a viral email to all members of their e-mail address contact
lists on publication to encourage their contacts, friends and family to buy a copy
of the book and to pass on the e-mail.

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