Not Peaches!

A rare not-peaches post on behalf of some pretty stellar band kids.

If you’ve been on my socials in the last month, you already know our oldest’s school marching band has been invited to Disney to perform, and I came up with some unique nerdy/bookish ways to raise some funds (including bookish stickers, themed meme collections dedicated to yourself or a loved one, the chance to take over my social media pages for a day to promote your stuff, a bookish cash calendar, and more).

It’s gone really well, and many thanks to everyone who has already participated and helped me raise enough so that we could cover my kid’s expenses as well as have enough left over to donate some to all of the senior students going.

A rare photo of said kid being sassy whilst marching lest you think this is some kind of elaborate ruse.

But.

Yesterday was the final payment due date, and as of the morning, there were still $15,000 worth of outstanding payments to be made. Because of this, they are still accepting payments through the next few days, so I’m here to give a last-minute “HEY IF YOU WANTED TO MAYBE DO THAT THING BUT FORGOT OR GOT DISTRACTED” message because forgetting and getting distracted is the reason I miss out on not doing things I actually want to do all the time. 

And, of course, if you'd like to throw a couple of bucks our way to help just because, you're welcome to do that, too.

I know you likely don’t know these kids, but please believe me when I say they deserve this trip. We live in a small town, in a county that has no bookstore, movie theater, rec center, skating rink, bowling alley, mall, etc. where kids might be able to connect and have many quintessential childhood and adolescent experiences with friends and neighbors.

A number of them have never left the state, much less gotten to see the ocean or experience a theme park like Disney World. (This would be true even if the pandemic hadn’t stolen much of their childhoods; we are an area marked by poverty, and as much as West Virginia’s hills protect her people, they also have a way of keeping them in.)

And music is the lifeblood of our school system. It is the one area of education where our programs and students consistently excel, earning accolades year after year, with many students only feeling they can truly be themselves among their fellow musicians.

So, to refresh your memory of what I am offering:

For $100, you can take over this page for a day (meaning, in this case, you could either choose five things to post from my page in a day OR I could share five of your page’s posts if you'd prefer to be able to invite people who interact with the post to like your page - I know the latter might be more appealing to those trying to grow their pages or who have an engagement-based bonus). It can be any time during 2024, so if you have a book coming out, for example, and you’d like the takeover day to be the day of its release or in the days leading up to it or whatever works best with your marketing strategy, that’s fine with me.

For $50, you can take over this page for a day (*meaning, in this case, you could either choose five things to post from my page in a day and/or we can do a collaborative post where it appears on both of our feeds at once). It can be any time during 2024, so if you have a book coming out, for example, and you’d like the takeover day to be the day of its release or in the days leading up to it or whatever works best with your marketing strategy, that’s fine with me.

For $5, I will send you a bookish sticker and thank you note via snail mail! Simply include your name and address with payment along with the word “sticker” and I will send it your way.

A meme collection with the theme chosen by you and dedicated to you or a person of your choosing if you’d like to surprise someone else with a post about their favorite book/genre/character/author/whatever.

Be sure to include in your message the details above OR you can email them to me at twqwrites@gmail.com.

Bookish cash calendar! You choose the day/book you want and then donate the $ equaling the number of that date. So, for example, if you chose Dune, you would donate $3.

Still available are:

1. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
6. Atonement by Ian McEwan
8. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
15. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
18. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
20. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
21. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
23. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
25. Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
27. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
28. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
29. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

If any of these sound appealing to you, you can send the money to me via Venmo, PayPal, or Cash App.

Please let me know in your payment comment or send me an email to twqwrites@gmail.com what option the payment is for and your address if it’s the sticker option. 

Thank you again to everyone who has already helped out! I can’t tell you how grateful I am for my little online community. <3

Have a beautiful day!

Tara