I’ve worked for charities for years, so I love seeing new and interesting ways of raising money for worthy causes. I recently discovered Sevenly.org, a website that raises money for a different charity every week by selling specially designed T-shirts. For each T-shirt they sell, they donate $7 to that week’s charity. This week, they’re… Continue reading Friday favorites: Buy a T-shirt, help rebuild a home for Sandy survivors
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Would you pay to browse in a bookshop?
Last Friday, I was listening to You & Yours, BBC Radio 4’s consumer affairs program, and heard the CEO of HarperCollins say something that stuck with me all weekend. “Only 35% of fiction in the UK is bought through a physical bookshop…I don’t want to take the bookshop away. I desperately want to keep it.… Continue reading Would you pay to browse in a bookshop?
Winner of the Sarah MacLean giveaway!
Thanks so much to Sarah MacLean for the fab interview, and to everyone who left a comment last week! Sadly, there can only be one winner, but happily, that winner is…ki pha! Congratuations, ki! Let me know your mailing address: romancingkatrina[at]gmail[dot]com If you didn’t win, here’s more info about the book and where you can… Continue reading Winner of the Sarah MacLean giveaway!
Contemporaries to covet in February – & giveaway!
I’m sorry that I’m publishing this post half way through the month, friends! I usually publish my contemporaries to covet posts on the first Monday of the month, but this month I had a couple of interviews with the wonderful Manda Collins and Sarah MacLean that I wanted to get up right away. For those… Continue reading Contemporaries to covet in February – & giveaway!
Friday favorites: A six year old gives great advice on how not to be scared
Bianca Giaever was just about to graduate with a degree in narrative studies (how cool does that sound?) and was a little nervous about what would happen next. She was creating a short film and asked six-year-old Asa what the film should be about. He told her a story about a bear and a mouse… Continue reading Friday favorites: A six year old gives great advice on how not to be scared