TODAY’S DRAWING:
Here at campaign headquarters, Diane Smith’s name has just been plucked from the hat in today’s Literary Believer Perks Plus drawing. Congrats
to Diane, who receives an extremely hip and smart Atelier26 t-shirt!
CAMPAIGN STATUS:
Today the Beauty of
Ordinary Things pre-order campaign meter stands at a beautiful 94 percent!
That leaves us with the lovely symmetry of 6 percentage points to go in the 6
campaign days remaining.
The campaign closes at 12:00 a.m. next Sunday, which means
you have until the end of Saturday,
September 7th to pre-order The Beauty
of Ordinary Things and receive your signed one-of-a-kind perks.
Please help us round out this wildly successful fundraising
effort by liberally sharing word of the campaign via the social media buttons
in the upper right corner of the campaign page:
https://www.wepay.com/donations/the-beauty-of-ordinary-things-pre-order-campaign
And thank you again, all you Literary Believers, for your
contagious enthusiasm over Ms. Chessman’s new novel.You're going to cherish it.
NEXT WEEK’S DRAWING:
For our last Literary
Believers Perks Plus drawing next week, we’re giving away a $25 gift card
to Powell’s Books, Portland Oregon’s literary treasure house and reader’s axis
mundi. The largest independent bookstore in the world, Powell’s is the Holy of
Holies for the book-loving kind. The Powell’s gift card can be redeemed from
anywhere on the globe through the vast and speedy electronic wonder of Powells.com
(better than Amazon!).
Anyone who has pre-ordered by the close of this campaign at 11:59 p.m. next Saturday night, September
7th, will be automatically entered to win.
Looking forward, with gratitude,
M. Allen Cunningham, Atelier26, Portland, OR
“[With] every book we love...we think approach it from a distance, watch it part its protecting covers, observe the unfolding of its tale from a safe seat in the audience, and we forget how much the survival of the characters, the very life of the story, depends on our presence as readers -- on our curiosity, on our desire to recall a detail or to be surprised by an absence -- as if our own capacity for love had created, from a tangle of words, the person of the beloved.”—Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary
