Hello,
There are forty-eight of you on this list. Not four thousand. Forty-eight people who read a story about a bookshop that does not exist and decided to stay. I know that number by heart, because it is small enough to know by heart.
That is why I am writing to you and not to strangers.
The number
Gumroad, the shop where my books live, has a rule: until a shop has earned its first hundred dollars, it pays out nothing and it cannot send a single automatic thank-you to the people who buy. The Purring Page has not crossed that line yet.
At these prices that line is about twenty copies. Twenty. It is the kind of number forty-eight people can decide in a weekend, which is exactly why I am asking now instead of waiting for it to happen on its own.
The books
Tea for Quiet Questions · €4.99
Ten evenings in Moira’s bookshop, ten herbal tea recipes. English and Italian in one purchase, EPUB and PDF.
Calm for Carers · €3.99
Six stories for the people who hold everyone else together. If you are the one your family calls first, this one was written for you. English and Italian, EPUB and PDF.
Less than the tea you would drink while reading them. Yours to keep, no subscription, nothing to cancel.
If you cannot buy
Then do one of these instead. They genuinely count the same, and they take a minute:
- Forward this email to one person. One. The person you thought of while reading the line about carers.
- Leave a one-line review on a book you have already read. A review is how a stranger finds the door.
And then I will tell you
On Monday evening I will write to you with the real number, whatever it is. If we got there, you will know it was the forty-eight of you who did it. If we did not, you will know that too, because I would rather tell you the truth than send you another cheerful announcement.
The stories stay free either way. That part is not in question and never will be.
Thank you for being here. Forty-eight is a small number, and every one of you is a real person who chose it.
With the kettle on,
Simona
Everything else is in the Shop.
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