Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium

Dear Readers,

We're very pleased to announce that Reading Frenzy now has a curated page on Kickstarter! Kickstarter is an online fund-raising platform for creative projects and ideas. Creators outline their projects, set a funding goal and deadline, and create rewards for backers. Backers pledge amounts of $1 or more to their favorite projects and choose their rewards. Funds are only collected if the goal is successfully reached by the deadline. We ran three successful projects last year and have supported and/or promoted dozens of other projects since then. Kickstarter is simply a brilliant, fun, and easy way for creators and backers to get together and make amazing stuff happen!

Curated Pages is a new feature on Kickstarter where selected creative organizations, communities, and individuals feature their favorite projects and help drum up support to help them reach their goals! The projects we feature will typically be print related, and primarily Pacific Northwest based, but if a project really grabs us, we'll plug away regardless of medium or locale.

Check out our first twelve featured projects. You can take a gander at our page which will provide a brief description of each project, or view them individually by following the links below:

• Adventures with Orphan Annie & Hot Metal Type by C.C. Stern Type Foundry (Portland, Or)

• Time is a Tree by Melody Owen (Portland, Or)

• Urban Scout's Book Tour by Urban Scout (Portland, Or)

• Listen with your Eyes: A Zine & Exhibit by Foster Youth by Amanda Herman (San Francisco, CA)

• Mississippi Megalops - A Floating Chautauqua by Works Progress (St. Paul, MN)

• CIRCUS Voyage -- The Bloggers' Bookazine by Josef Mayerhofer (Darmstadt, Germany)

• Everything Good and Beautiful by Bucket Siler (Santa Fe, NM)

• The IPRC's Media Action Project by Independent Publishing Resource Center (Portland, Or)

• An Illustrated Guide to Income in the United States by Catherine Mulbrandon (Jersey City, NJ)

• Save a Piece of Printing and Cultural History! by keeganmeegan (Portland, Or)

• The Itching by Dianne Bellino & Adam Davies (Brooklyn, NY)

• A Somewhat Secret Place: Disability and Art by Catherine Jennifer Helen Miller (Portland, Or)

We would love to see all of our featured projects succeed. Projects rely not just on pledges but on sharing, so if you're not in a position to back a project you can still play an important role by sharing it online with your friends. We hope you enjoy reading about these inspired efforts and support them whatever way you see fit.

Your Faithful Proprietress,
Chloe