Summertime is Pool Weather

[ng_moonmoth]

fuzzyred and I are throwing a Pool Party for this week's Polychrome Heroics sale. This is the way we encourage folks to support ysabetwordsmith's writing by offering a chance to share in the quarter-price discount available for large purchases.

Here's how it works: the organizer of the pool (that's me, in this case) proposes a list of target poems worth enough to trigger the quarter-price discount. Per published rules, anyone who contributes to a quarter-price buy gets quarter-price on all poems in that buy. So, if there's something you'd like, and would like to save some money on, or make it inexpensive enough to sponsor, you can join the pool by pledging whatever sum you consider meaningful toward the current target list -- and then add targets of your own. If you contribute enough to purchase your target(s) outright at quarter-price, they will be added to the list. If you can't swing that much, and want to see if other pool members are willing to make up the difference, you need only ask for your target to be included. More often not, someone will be interested, and the answer will again be "yes".

So come one, come all! Here's the target list we're starting with:

"A Murmuring, Fateful, Giant Voice"	64.50
"The Ones Who Have Your Back"	47
"Sung in Hobo Jungles"	63
"The Sort of Things That Make People Stop"	35.50
"Public Art as a Team Sport"	107

That's $317 at half-price, or $158.50 at quarter-price.

If one of those is of special interest to you, and you want to designate that poem as the target for your initial contribution, that part will go there. Otherwise, it will go wherever it will do the most good for the pool. As poems on the target list accumulate enough money for sponsorship, more targets will be added; any ideas from pool members are appreciated.

The pool will close sometime Saturday evening when I am online. Contributions via PayPal will be collected and forwarded once they have been received. Let's go sponsor some poetry!