The Top Ten Reasons to Send me a Dollar

1. You'll just spend that dollar on something you won't even remember. You'll remember this. You'll check back here every once and a while. You might tell people about it. And one day, you'll see your name in a published book, and it'll make you smile.


2. Support art and culture! That one dollar will go a little way toward paying off my debt or otherwise supporting my ability to write and focus on building my career as an author. That dollar will become a tiny part of a novel, which will serve to enrich and encourage positive culture and the art of our time.


3. Do you have an ugly dollar? You know--it's all soft, crumpled, torn and split. Maybe it's dirty and hard to read. You always put that dollar at the top of your wallet and find reasons to spend it so you can get RID of it and pass it off to someone else, right? Well ... I'll take it. No discrimination here.


4. Think of it as a tip.


5. Support the flailing banks! I need to give over 40,000 dollar bills to the various banks who own my unsecured debt. That one dollar of yours will go to them. And if you didn't support the bail-outs--if you don't like the banks that took government support, then tell me so, and I'll send your dollar to one of my banks that didn't participate.


6. Do you have so many dollars that you don't know what to do with them? I have a solution: Send one to me. Or fifteen-thousand.


7. As you'll read in the "More About Me" page, this is for a good cause. It's not a non-profit, or the Salvation Army, but it will support a strong, American mind that will work to encourage the values of freedom, liberty, integrity, and rationality.


8. I'm not a bum. I'll use your dollar wisely.


9. The stock market is going crazy. How can you invest in any of those public stocks if you don't know which ones are plummeting, which ones are being nationalized, or which ones are still honest? Invest in me. In my mind. And I'll work to make this country and its private businesses safer to invest in again.


10. You are reading the product of my intellect. It costs $1 to stand on my intellectual property.