TWMAF, Charity, and Asking You for Something!

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Hello readers.

ACT 0 Prologue of "SECURITY ISSUE: Two Wars Middle A Fence" is getting released: a transgressive crime novel heavily inspired by Hong Kong crime films, Sleeping Dogs the game and THE BORROWED By Chan Ho-kei. The novel is on KDP in the Hardcover format. Proof copy ordered. ACT 0 Prologue is sitting in Amazon's review pipeline right now, while I concurrently wait for a physical copy to show up at my door so I can check whether the fonts survived and the margins aren't eating the text. That's where we are.

From the start, whether in-writing inside the novel or publicly said, I said a portion of proceeds would go to charity. It's not because it should make a novel look good that I'm fully willing to accept it being s***, but rather because the novel covers quite a few aspects, albeit in a fictionalized and stylized setting, about things that destroy lives: PTSD, exploitation, institutional failure, the cost of doing undercover work that nobody thanks you for, and the kind of geopolitical rot that turns civilians into collateral. And in the back of my head right? What a tourist I am for looking in from the outside and pocket every cent made.

So here's the commitment: a percentage of every sale goes to charities connected to what the novel actually talks about. Not vague "we support good causes" — specific organisations, vetted, transparent, publicly tracked right here on Cyberspace.

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The categories I'm looking at:

• Veterans and ex-military mental health (the Duckys and Camerons of the real world, characters in the novel beyond ACT0)
• Police and first responder mental health (the people who can't ask for help without losing their careers)
• Palestinian civilian aid (non-political, humanitarian only — medicine, food, children's surgery)
• Anti-trafficking and exploitation (what IJM and similar organisations fight through legal systems)
• Press freedom in Hong Kong (because the novel's world isn't fiction for everyone)
• Mental health access generally (because this shouldn't be a luxury)

I'm a first-time writer that can make mistakes, but the homework is right there. I'm looking at/for a shortlist of orgs that are independently rated, publish their financials and spend 75% of donations on actual programmes instead of gold outings, "administrative costs" and funding Israel. To my knowledge, they aren't government proxies and none of them condition aid on religion or politics.

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But I want to hear from you before I finalise it.

Do you lot Cyberspacians know a charity that fits aforementioned themes and is genuinely trustworthy? Have you had a personal experience with an organisation —for better or worse— that I should know about? Is there a cause the novel touches that I'm not seeing? This isn't a vote. I'm not outsourcing the decision. But if you've got knowledge I don't have, I would like to acquire it. The whole point of this is to not be performative, and that starts with not pretending I have all the answers.

More details — including which charities made the list, how the tracking works, and what the actual numbers look like once sales start coming in — will be posted here as they happen. No vague promises. Receipts or it didn't happen.

— Devyn Genjima, Crimes Retold Entertainment EU