Category Archives: Fundraising
One last request
These past few weeks have been a blur of exciting things for Billtown Blue Lit. We’ve talked at Jane Friedman’s blog, been interviewed for Public Radio (it will air sometime next week. Listen at 89.7 WVIA if you’re local. It MAY stream at wvia.org), started a podcast, organized a pilot event, etc. Tonight, we’re hosting our pilot …
We should really just quit calling it Literary Fiction.
When I got started on this crazy ride of starting a literature-centric nonprofit, all I really wanted was a Reading Series in my town, and to shine a light on literary–or any craft-concerned, smartly written–fiction. I also wanted to be able to get paid to read and talk to authors while providing an amazing thing …
Thank you for joining our community.
Hello friends. Some of you have recently joined us. We at Blue Lit Headquarters are working on partnerships with regional businesses as well as with other bloggers, and everydayficton.com. We’re busy getting ready for our pilot event and last big fundraising push. Our two main goals for 2012 are to Launch our reading series, and …
Happy Holiday Blog Break
Hey Everybody. Billtown Blue Lit is taking a Holiday break until Tuesday afternoon when Peter Damian Bellis’s first guest blog post goes live. In the meantime, it’s not too late to get in your last-minute donations in a literature lover’s name. They’ll get a tshirt or a DVD or some an MP3 or all of …
Billtown Blue Lit’s Excellent Journey
Hey Everybody! So thanks again for all your support. I’m writing today to provide a bulleted update of progress. We have a meeting with the owner of the small press in Williamsport for early in the new year. We’re hoping she’ll be able to help us with platform, funding, or partnership once we’re ready to …
Friend of Billtown Blue Lit, Peter Damian Bellis, gives you his book. For free.
I’m writing today to introduce Peter Damian Bellis, American author, and neighbor to Billtown Blue Lit. Peter met with us yesterday to talk about our project, his novel The Conjure Man, and all sorts of matters of marketing and publishing. Here’s Bellis’s bio as it appears on the marketing site for his book: Peter Damian …
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