November Update! ~ Issue 2 SUCCESS and a Healthy Charitable Donation! (Patreon)

Hi friends!   

Here's the latest on how the first round of printing when for Issue 2 of Writing the Circus, and what's happening next with the "VacBook" project! (No, I promise that's not the title ...).

• I thought I would be ambitious with the number of copies I printed for this second crack at things, so I had 150 copies made up. I figured, Hey, saves me an extra trip to the printer if these do well this year.  
  
  I put 100 copies up in the store inventory on my website --  AND WE SOLD 71 COPIES, FRIENDS.  71. COPIES.  
  
  At $12 USD each, that works out to $852 USD; subtract $100 for printing/overhead costs and convert that to Euros, and we ended up raising around 630 Euro (give or take w/ exchange rate fluctuations).   I wanted to avoid taking a bite out of the donations with the fees for a wire transfer, so I PayPal'd the money to Marco Motta and he made a transfer from his bank account to ASNUCI (they don't have any online donation platforms up beyond specific IndieGogo campaigns).
  
  I've attached the transfer notice Marco sent me, from his account to ASNUCI below, because ***transparency***.  
  
  I didn't want to share this in the midst of the US election tension because it would get lost -- so I'll be announcing our donation publicly sometime closer to the end of this week or this coming weekend, probably :) THANK YOU ALL!

They're using the funds to help keep their office running and to finish construction on warm, safe, clean accommodations for the temporary migrant workers currently stuck in unsafe and unstable living conditions in the Huelva province.   Good job, everyone.  We did a Tangibly Good Thing.  I'm looking forward to being able to ship out copies of Issue 2 once I get back to Toronto in December from this acting contract --   Until then, I'm just out here scheming and dreaming about the VacBook project. I'm finalizing the licensing agreements with the various involved photographers and its a special kind of eye-gouging bureaucracy that I would dearly love to never need to navigate again in my lifetime.  I'm really happy with the images, but this administrative side of things is admittedly taking up so much space in my brain that I haven't had the brain power or breathing room to sit down and start chipping away at the written work for the project in a meaningful way, yet.   All in good time.   Looking forward to sharing some early proofs from the different shoots with you all soon --   In the meantime, stay healthy, stay safe, stay strange, and stay wonderful!

XO   Ess



Ta daaaa, as promised: