Hi Folks. We hate that we have to talk about this (and “celebrate” it every year), but Banned Books Week is coming up, October 5-11, 2025. Every year, highlighting this issue becomes increasingly important, as book banning continues to rise. The theme this year is “Censorship Is So 1984 — Read for Your Rights.” If…
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Giving Tuesday – And Gratitude to The Booktender!
Friends: If you receive emails or text messages from your favorite nonprofits, then you know that Giving Tuesday is tomorrow (Tuesday, December 3, 2024)! Have you all been inundated with messages yet? I know I have. But, here we are, tossing ourselves into the fray 😉 Even though we’ll likely be drowned out by a…
Three Year Tome Gnome-iversary!
Friends! If you missed the news, this month we are celebrating our three-year tome gnome-iversary and kicking off our FOURTH year of hiding and sharing books with our local Tucson community. As part of the celebration, we launched our anniversary celebrations by hiding 30 copies of TJ Klune’s newest book (Somewhere Beyond the Sea) this…
WOWZA! 2024 Fundraising Goal Met!
Tome Gnome Friends and Supporters – We have exciting news! We received $800 in additional “offline” (outside of PayPal) donations this weekend, which means we have now met – and slightly exceeded! – our fundraising goal for 2024. YAY! We are so excited that we can keep hiding books throughout ALL of 2024 🙂 These…
Fundraising Gift Winners! Upcoming Events! All the things! OH MY!
It’s been a while since we’ve shared a general update, so here we are! Read on for information on the folks who won our recent fundraising gift bundles, an update on when we’ll select winners for our final two gifted book sets (signed special editions from TJ Klune!), and learn about a few fun events…
Sharing Book Joy: How to Help on Giving Tuesday!
Friends and supporters – I know this post (and the email that our subscribers get about this post!) will probably get lost in the onslaught of Giving Tuesday donation requests that everyone undoubtedly is receiving (ha, I know my inbox was full of donation requests this morning!), but I hope that perhaps a few of…
2024 Fundraising Update!
Friends & Supporters – We’re about halfway through the timeline for our 2024 Fundraising Campaign (we’re trying to wrap up by December 31… but we’ll see how things unfold!), and we wanted to take a moment to pause and send HUGE thanks to those of you who’ve already donated for helping the Tucson Tome Gnome…
Two-Year “Tome Gnome”iversary & Fundraising for 2024!
Friends! If you’ve been following us since we launched the Tucson Tome Gnome in September 2021, then you know that September is the month when we celebrate our official anniversary (“tome gnome”iversary)! We are officially two years old! Tada!!! This also means we are “officially” kicking off our fundraising campaign to support our book-hiding and…
Tucson Tome Gnome 