Happy Valentines Day

Want to show the love? Consider a contribution to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It’s easy, just click on this link.

Don’t forget to hug your Valentine, your kids and everyone else you love.  Be thankful for another day of having your loved ones in your life.

It’s official!

Debbie Macomber has totally smashed her 30,000 word writing goal for September! Debbie has written 37,908.

Check out her blog on the subject! Go Debbie and thanks for being our Pacesetter Author!

How many of you met or exceeded your goal this month?

Help us make our goal!

Click above to donate!

5 donors x $5 = 5 free books!

Just a few more days, but you can do it! Bring in 5 donors with donations of at least $5 between Monday September 15 and Sunday September 21 and you get 5 free books!!

Top Readers and Writers through Week Two

We’re pleased to announce our Top Readers and Top Writers for Week 2

Our top reader is Jennifer  with 4,830 pages read through September 14
Second place is Janafer of the MAD Romance Writers Team with 4,644

Our top writer was Shiloh with 45,000 words through September 14!
Second place was Mari with 24,373!

New total! $4,943

Holy smokes! What a great week!

I just received a new update–the correct total is now $5188

There’s still time to hit the $100 mark!

I’ve sent out e-mails to all of those who had reached $100 by Thursday. I did not get a report on Friday (our contact in the CFF office was not in that day). I will get the next report on Monday morning and it should include all donations through the weekend. So–it is time now to beat the bushes. Nag those relatives who haven’t donated yet and send out a few more e-mails to all those folks on your Christmas list.

You can reach $100 by Monday! You can! You can!

We will have some fabulous prizes next week–watch this space tomorrow for an announcement, but I can tell you there will be prizes for those who read the most pages and write the most words as well as some cool prizes for bringing in more donations. More tomorrow. Remember–keep spreading the word!

Teams, progress and $100 books

The competition heats up! As you can see from our team pages we have one team way out in front with donations–the Wet Noodle Posse for CF has collected $690!

The Chocolate Mafia and RWAOL Romancing the Words are coming up fast as well. Individual participants have brought in a total of $1,263. So far we have 10 participants who have raised at least $100 (some on teams and some working individually). We will be in contact with all participants who reach that $100 threshold so that they can select their free book! If you don’t hear from us, please e-mail us at info@unleashyourstory.com so that we can get you your prize.

$100 Books!

The following books have been generously donated by these authors for those participants who reach $100 by Sunday September 7, 2008!

• Dark Warrior Unleashed Alexis Morgan
• What A Gentleman Wants Caroline Linden
• What a Rogue Desires Caroline Linden
• A Rake’s Guide To Seduction Caroline Linden
• His Wiked Sins Eve Silver
• Season of Strangers Kat Martin
• Heart of Fire Kat Martin
• Here Comes the Bride Laura Drewry
• Charming Jo Laura Drewry
• The Devil’s Daughter Laura Drewry
• The Naked Earl Sally MacKanzie
• The Naked Duke Sally MacKenzie
• The Naked Marquis Sally MacKenzie
• The Naked Gentleman Sally MacKenzie
• Risk Everything Sophia Johnson
• Always Mine Sophia Johnson
• Loving Miranda Teresa Bodwell
• Revealing Skills Summer Devon

Check out our progress

As of ten o’clock this morning our total is over $3200! Thanks to everyone who has been working hard to promote the event. Let’s keep it up!

You might want to check out this article from Forbes magazine that talks about the great work the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is doing. Not only is CFF a driving force in research for Cystic Fibrosis, but it has become an example to other organizations dedicated to fighting diseases. Your money donated to CFF is really making a difference in people’s lives today and in the future!

Teams! Teams! Teams!

Most of our many participants are members of a team. At this point we have 13 teams registered (and there is plenty of time for more to join us).

Check out the Team page for a list of currently registered teams. Watch our team page to follow each team’s progress toward their donation goals. We’ll introduce you to some of the teams here as the month goes on.

Don’t forget to check out the thermometer in our sidebar–it is climbing!