Update: The Beauty of Ordinary Things Pre-Order Campaign (and Drawing!) – August 25, 2013

The Beauty of Ordinary Things Pre-Order Campaign continues to roar mightily along, and here at Atelier26 headquarters, we’ve just plucked three names from a hat in our first Literary Believer Perks Plus Program drawing. 

Charles L. Junkerman will receive a signed copy of Harriet Scott Chessman’s Ohio Angels, Ellen Kirschman receives a signed copy of Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper, and Anonymous receives a signed copy of Someone Not Really Her Mother. Congratulations Charles, Ellen, and Anonymous! 

For next Sunday’s drawing we’re giving away a stylish Atelier26 t-shirt! Prototypes are still in the works, but it goes without saying that this will be one unique, literarily hip piece of apparel — just the kind of thing a literary believer can sport with pride. 

Anyone who has pre-ordered through this campaign by 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, August 31 will be automatically entered to win.

With thirteen days and just 20 percentage points to go, the Beauty of Ordinary Things Pre-Order Campaign is surely one of the luckiest literary fundraisers I’ve ever seen!

Here’s to that shining goal just over the hill.
 
With gratitude,

M. Allen Cunningham, Atelier26, Portland OR 

www.Atelier26Books.com

“It is not that art, particularly literature, is a by-product of our species’ development, but just the reverse. If what distinguishes us from other members of the animal kingdom is speech, then literature — and poetry in particular, being the highest form of locution — is, to put it bluntly, the goal of our species.”—Joseph Brodsky, Nobel Lecture