I know it has been awhile since my first and only post on the Pink Author website. So sorry for whomever has read that one and only post and has been hankering for another one.

I am about to buy a 3rd manual typewriter to add to the Pink Author family. It has a nice gray metal body and green keys. Very cool.

If I have not mentioned why I am currently buying manual typewriters, here is the reason: Pink Author will hopefully not only serve as a national (and perhaps someday, international) archive for emails and letters, but will also help promote and encourage letter writing in general. Once I find the space, anyone who is interested may come into the Pink Author Collective/Organization/Museum and use any of the manual typewriters in order to write letters to friends, family members or to answer any of the letters Pink Author receives from people in America or around the world looking for pen pals. I would also like to have schools in the area, make field trips out to Pink Author to learn more about the art of letter writing and to read letters written by civil war soldiers, queens and kings of the past, as well as love letters (clean ones mind you, I am no pervert). This would enable the students to not only improve their writing skills, but hopefully engage them creatively as well. And reading other people's letters are most definitely a fun way to learn about history.

So if anyone out there reading this would like to send me either original letters or digital copies of letters for the Pink Author to archive, that would be fantastic. Please email me at pinkauthor@gmail.com.

Also, it will be necessary for you or the owner of the letters to sign a release form that will allow me to show them to anyone in the public who would like to view them as well as make them available for researchers to use. Please think about whether you are okay with signing such a release or not before contacting me. Of course, please feel free to email me with any questions you might have.