Donate to Impossible Moon Bookshop! #HopefulInHapeville

Hi, I'm Breanna J. McDaniel a born and raised Atlantan from the SWATS.

If you want the whole story read on! But if you're looking for the TLDR section, scroll to the bottom, please!

I grew up in College Park off of Old Bill Cook Road back when there was a Sizzler on Old National. I went to school at Mount Olive Elementary School when it was called just that and I graduated from Creekside High School a little ways from Union City, so the southside has always been my home.

After living what seems like a dozen different lives, I'm back living in the Tri-Cities area again working as a teacher and award-winning children's book author.

Many things have changed around the area including the unfortunate closing of our closest general bookstores.

That's where I come in with Impossible Moon Bookshop!

Impossible Moon Bookshop is a Black woman-owned general independent bookstore and community space on Hapeville's Main Street right next to the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport and smack dab in the middleish of the Tri-Cities.

If you grew up watching Moesha, think Andell's without the food, (because Hapeville already has tons of great restaurants!), or, if you were a fan of One Tree Hill, think Karen's Cafe and the events hosted there to support local artists!

It will be a key cosmos for a town that extensively supports the arts on its main street in accord with its designation as a Main Street City by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs.

The bookshop is on the main strip beside two local haunts, multiple restaurants, a yoga/Pilates studio, a coffeehouse, a pharmacy, natural food stores, a theater, and across the train tracks from the town’s post office.

I'm bringing in students for tutoring programs, volunteer opportunities for our elderly citizens, art crawls with the City of Hapeville, and anything else folks can create with us!

I look forward to being a good neighbor to the other businesses in town and a resource for people looking for community book clubs or even someone to watch Columbo reruns with them, yes there will be, "Just One More Thing" nights at the bookshop :)

I just want folks to feel comfortable in the shop's orbit and to shine with us at Impossible Moon!

This fundraiser is to help build a budget to support:

• Books for literary inventory

• Sidelines for the store which will come via local artisans and artists, as well as,

• Shelving, furniture, and other items to build out and furnish the property for our opening this winter

I am #HopefulInHapeville (hashtag courtesy of Sara Luce from Charis Books & More!) that folks will think that this is as worthy an endeavor as I do and will support this GoFundMe to get this bookshop started in the Tri-Cities!

We're building a community of constellations here and everyone is critical for its success, all help is big help.

For everyone who is looking at a dream and thinking it might be impossible... please keep dreaming out loud. I'm sending you all the good vibrations and hope!

A mentor recently reminded me that this dream started ten years ago and with the help of booksellers and bookshop owners all over the world who have taught and mentored me (THANK YOU BY THE WAY!!!) I'm here and so is this little bookshop that's making its way.

Please donate if you can and please share the good word either way.

Lots of love, hope, and joy,

BJM

TLDR

I'm opening a bookshop on the southside of Atlanta and I need your help to make it happen!

Please donate below and spread the good word if you can!

BJM xx