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Notes From The Mixed Up Desk, August 2, 2024
Boozhoo Books\ \ Naomi\ \ • Aug 2 2024
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Hello Readers!
Let's talk about all of the exciting things going on in this community this month.
**Good Day to Read Indigenous book club **is reading I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones.
Join Club: https://fable.co/club/good-day-to-read-indigenous-with-fromthemixedupdesk-125290577858
Women in Horror book club is reading The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim.
Join Club: https://fable.co/club/women-in-horror-with-fromthemixedupdesk-534117318256
Our community has taken on a worthwhile cause. We are supporting author KB Brookins in helping make sure other people pick up his new memoir about being Black and Trans in America. We want as many readers reading this as Pageboy! Join the readalong and project in the Discord: https://discord.gg/S6vwHnjfZh
August is a special month (MY BIRTHDAY, VIRGO POWER) and a month of Giveaways! Please see the Giveaway schedule below:
8/5- 3 month subscription upgrade for one free subscriber
8/9- a handsigned copy of The Famliar by Leigh Bardugo
8/12- 3 month subscription upgrade for one free subscriber
8/16- copy of Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
8/19- 3 month subscription upgrade for one free subscriber
8/22- hand signed copy of Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
8/27- signed copy of Dread Nation and Deathless Divide by Justina Ireleand
The book giveaways are limited to US Residents Only.
There might be a few more surprises! Stay Tuned!
The **subscription upgrade **is something that I am really excited about because it is bringing me back to work on building out the paid tiers to make them worthwhile for everyone. I believe that more paid subscribers will help me speed the imprint journey along (That's why we are all here, right? **We want to publish Indigenous books together! **We are going to make that happen. We are the movement!) Thank you so much to those early paid subscribers who believed in this project from the first minute. (including you, mom, who I also bullied into joining).
If you were a paid subsciber at the $5 or $12 level, what special perks would you want. I'm going back to the drawing table this weekend to do some work. You may notice that I renamed the tiers. The $5 tier is now Buddy Reads. The $12 tier is Enemies to Lovers. I think it's cute. What do you guys think?
I hope everyone has a great weekend full of good reads. I will be finishing Lizards Hold The Sun, Gods of Jade and Shadow and starting I Was A Teenage Slasher. Tell me what you're reading below!
How Do I Sign A Newsletter,
Naomi, from the mixed up desk
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