In the process of investigating books for my site's October Reading Challenge - to encourage people to read books set in Afghanistan - I came across a fantastic writing project which is giving Afghan women a voice.
Wanting to support this project through my site, I decided I would donate any commission I earn from books set in Afghanistan during October to the project. And I have done a blog post telling people so.
But this scares me, because so far, I think I have average earnings of about $1.20 in commission each month - what do I do if hardly anyone buys any books? Do I then announce a paltry figure on the blog, or do I add my own donation (which I am quite willing to do) to make it up to a reasonable amount and fudge the facts a little bit when announcing the grand total?
Has anyone else done this? I'd love to hear how it went for you.....
I have told the writing project itself I am doing this, so I have completely put myself out there - though when I say it is a bit scary, I guess I have to put it in perspective - it's not at all scary compared to what these women in Afghanistan are facing doing their writing in secret!
Anyway - we shall see what happens - and of course, if you are in a position to spread the word about the project then that would be great!
Something quite scary....
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