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Time to DIY Swag & Read More Books!

 


Six weeks until the 5th annual The Write Women Book Fest on Saturday, October 14 & Sunday, October 15!!! thewritewomenbookfest.org 

Use discount code: MYFANS2023 until Sunday 9/17 to get $19 off, making tickets only $10 each! 

My DIY decorated shirts for book lovers are given in thanks to people who buy my books at events. TWWBF2023 next month, then a TBA library event in November. I'm overdue for restocking.  

And of course, more books borrowed even though the two book stacks shown in last week's post are only half-read, but the library is closed for Labor Day on Monday and there's no such thing as having too many reading options (according to book hoarders and binge readers). 

Also, celebrating the fortitude of SAG-AFTRA and striking workers in other industries https://aflcio.org/strike-map who are standing up for themselves and their fellow laborers--present and future. For anyone who defends unconscionable, unliveable wages by saying, "It's Capitalism." My pushback is this: Actual Capitalism requires equitably compensated laborers in the workplace to act as robust consumers in the retail marketplace. That's how legitimate Capitalism is structured. Siphoning wages from the workers and redirecting them to finance exorbitant executive compensation unbalances the whole system along with excessive consumer revolving credit debt and too many other financial disasters to list here. [soapbox moment end] 

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