Brandie,

I hope you are having a great start to your week!

I was going through our records today and noticed that Nom de Plume has made multiple wonderfully generous gifts to The Trevor Project, and I wanted to reach out and express our gratitude for your continued support of our life-saving mission. Last year, The Trevor Project’s services impacted the lives of over 200,000 young people. It was also our first year of offering two days per week of our innovative TrevorText service and, due to this increase in service, we were able to answer 33% more texts from youth in crisis than in the previous year.

As we ramp up our work this year in response to an ongoing surge in need and a climate that remains hostile to these young people, we want to let you know that your generosity helps us reach more young people than ever before!

If you have the time, I would love to hear more about your company and what made you choose to support Trevor.

Thank you again for your tremendous dedication to our mission! If there is anything I can ever do to assist you, or should you like to learn more about how your giving directly impacts the lives of LGBTQ youth, please do feel free to reach out to me at any time!

All the best,

Rebecca

 

Nom de Plume Publications Response to The Trevor Project:

Hi Rebecca!

On behalf of our authors and, of course, the readers who make our donations possible, I am thrilled to receive your letter!

Nom de Plume Publications is a very small publishing company that provides a wide range of a la carte publishing services to independent authors. When I formed the company in the spring, it was with the keystone belief that giving back to the communities that support us is incredibly important.

In that spirit, we invite our authors to join us in donating 5% of their monthly royalties to charities with a proven positive impact in the community most closely associated with each genre.

The donations made by Nom de Plume Publications to The Trevor Project represent 5% of the gross monthly royalties received on projects (digital, print and audio) published in the LGBTQ genres during that month. Two of our authors – Kian Rhodes and Dion Demetri – make up more than 80% of the donations to your organization.  With Ms. Rhodes’ immensely popular series The Omega Auction (gay paranormal romance MM) coming to Audible in the coming months, we are excited to predict that our support will only increase!

We donate to your organization for one simple reason: as an entity, we believe in the work that you do! Growing up is hard enough when you fit easily into societies pre-determined slots of acceptance; for LGBTQ youth, those challenges are often times so much harder.  There is no mistaking the importance of the services that The Trevor Project provides to LGBTQ and questioning youth in their darkest hours.

Thank you again for your lovely letter and, on behalf of myself, the Nom de Plume authors, and our readers,  thank you for the work that The Trevor Project does!

Sincerely,

Brandie Chesser
Owner
Nom de Plume Publications, LLC