The secret Lives of dresses Charity Drive 2008
If you’ve been a reader of this blog, you probably know about the secret Lives of dresses series. (If you don’t know about them, the links are over there in the sidebar, on the right.)
And you probably also know that, for the last couple years, I’ve been lucky enough to be able to raise money for some great charities by offering to write new “Secret Lives” vignettes if we reach our donation goal. This year, I hope we can raise $1500 for books through Bars, a charity in Philadelphia that provides books, especially dictionaries, to prisoners. They are working towards starting a program in a nearby women’s prison, and our donations would go towards that effort.
If we make our goal, I have a new prize this year. You see, there’s going to be a “Secret Lives of Dresses” book (just like many of you have asked for!) sometime in 2010, from Grand central publishing in the us and Hodder in the UK. and guess what? It’s a novel! A novel that I haven’t exactly finished yet, so I have room to rename a character! If you donate to this charity drive and email me a copy of your receipt (email is erin at dressaday dot com), I will choose one name from all the donors and name a character in the novel after him or her. (Yep, seriously.)
http://www.networkforgood.org/PCA/Badge.swf?BadgeId=113162
I don’t care if you give a dollar or a hundred dollars (although obviously, I’d prefer you give a hundred dollars, if you can …). but if you give anything at all, you have a chance to be a character (or at least a character’s name) in the “Secret Lives of Dresses” novel. In addition, my wonderful editor at 5 Spot/Grand Central, Caryn Karmatz-Ruby, has offered to send me a box of their fantastic books to give as prizes for some runners-up (whom I’ll also select randomly from all donors) …
So, what are you waiting for? Scroll back up and click the “donate” button, and help a woman in prison educate herself so that, when she is released, she never has to go back.
The Donate For good site accepts PayPal and credit cards; please put “DressaDay” in the “Designation” box so that books through Bars can make sure that our donations go to their women’s program.
[Oh, and speaking of contests, the winner of last week’s “enter a fabric store on the wiki and win a pattern” contest is Jinnan-tonnyx — Jinnan, drop me an email with your mailing address, okay?]
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