I heard from Lulu again today, and I just have to take a moment to say...
They're being so wonderful to us, and so supportive of this project. What VIP treatment!
We will have an ISBN in a couple of days. They're waiving *all* up-front costs, including the ISBN registration, and are offering help with anything we need, from formatting to storefront design. They're going to help me set up a private ordering link for review copies at the base rate. They're even offering to approach a corporate sponsor for us.
On that note:
I know I've been hazy on the idea of corporate sponsorships. I was trying to figure out exactly what we need and what we could offer, and how to accept donations.
We're so tight on space and so time-crunched that I'm afraid to offer space in the book itself, but I will gladly list sponsors (and their links, if available) on the SOS website and once in the Absolute Write Newsletter (which goes out to 75,000 writers a week).
We can use sponsorship money toward publicity/advertising costs-- such as buying and mailing review copies and press releases. This would ease the burden from writers who want to send copies to their local media but can't afford to, and would enable us to mail plenty of copies to national and international media.
So! If you know of a company that might help us out, donations to this cause can be made by PayPal to storiesofstrength @jennaglatzer.com (delete space... it's there to confuse spambots). Checks can also be sent to my PO Box, but the company would have to be comfortable with writing a check to my name-- I don't have a bank account for Stories of Strength, and my partner is the one in charge of the Absolute Write bank account (I don't want to mix the two because AW is not a nonprofit). My mailing address is:
Jenna Glatzer
PO Box 621
Islip, NY 11751
I will gladly keep a running tally of donations and how we're using them, and sponsors can be anonymous if they prefer (please note this).
More soon!
They're being so wonderful to us, and so supportive of this project. What VIP treatment!
We will have an ISBN in a couple of days. They're waiving *all* up-front costs, including the ISBN registration, and are offering help with anything we need, from formatting to storefront design. They're going to help me set up a private ordering link for review copies at the base rate. They're even offering to approach a corporate sponsor for us.
On that note:
I know I've been hazy on the idea of corporate sponsorships. I was trying to figure out exactly what we need and what we could offer, and how to accept donations.
We're so tight on space and so time-crunched that I'm afraid to offer space in the book itself, but I will gladly list sponsors (and their links, if available) on the SOS website and once in the Absolute Write Newsletter (which goes out to 75,000 writers a week).
We can use sponsorship money toward publicity/advertising costs-- such as buying and mailing review copies and press releases. This would ease the burden from writers who want to send copies to their local media but can't afford to, and would enable us to mail plenty of copies to national and international media.
So! If you know of a company that might help us out, donations to this cause can be made by PayPal to storiesofstrength @jennaglatzer.com (delete space... it's there to confuse spambots). Checks can also be sent to my PO Box, but the company would have to be comfortable with writing a check to my name-- I don't have a bank account for Stories of Strength, and my partner is the one in charge of the Absolute Write bank account (I don't want to mix the two because AW is not a nonprofit). My mailing address is:
Jenna Glatzer
PO Box 621
Islip, NY 11751
I will gladly keep a running tally of donations and how we're using them, and sponsors can be anonymous if they prefer (please note this).
More soon!