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Bookstore Romance Day

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Bookstore Romance Day was created in 2019 to help bring together independent bookstores and the Romance community. The response has been fantastic and we want to keep the effort going. In order to be able to do that, and to grow our celebration into the true year-round effort that we want it to be, though, we need support. Some of the projects that your donations will help to support include:

*Book Club--We are hosting a twice annual Book Club and we want as many people to join us as possible. To that end we'd love to be able to host giveaways of our chosen books and swag and other incentives for participating. We'd also like to be able to provide bundles of books/e-books/audiobooks to readers who want to join us but who do not have the funds to purchase the books. We need to be able to pay for items and, even if we get items donated, we need to be able to pay for shipping.

*Trade Shows, Conferences, and Conventions--One day, we'll be able to gather in person again. When that happens, we want to be able to send supporters out to various events to share our message of celebrating Romance fiction in independent bookstores. We'd love to be able to have bookmarks or buttons or brochures to hand out to explain our message and our mission. (

*Promo and Marketing Items--We want to be able to provide participating bookstores with things like bookmarks and buttons and window clings to help them proclaim their Romance-friendly status

*Branded and Exclusive Merchandise--We're working on partnering with independently- and women-owned businesses to create wholesale items that our partner stores can sell to their customers, but small businesses can't often afford to work on spec and we don't want to ask them to and we also need to be able to pay artists for design work

*Administrative Costs--While our efforts are primarily volunteer-driven, we still need to pay for things like internet and newsletter services and a virtual events platform and printing and postage and all of the other myriad expenses that accrue.

*Everything Else--Inevitably, there are expenses that we can't anticipate and it would be nice to have a little nest egg/safety net for when that occurs.

We are always and forever deeply grateful to anyone who can donate. If it's not possible for you to donate funds, but you have goods or services or time that you can give, please contact us with that information.

Organizer

Billie Bloebaum
Organizer
Portland, OR

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