“In the U.S., 30 million people over age 16 — 14 percent of the country’s adult population — don’t read well enough to understand a newspaper story written at the eighth grade level or fill out a job application.”
- ProLiteracy

I Told Two Friends is an online campaign led by Dallas author, Melanie Wells, to rally book lovers to help fight adult illiteracy. Readers are invited to join our effort to raise $100,000 for the cause by purchasing Melanie Wells’ novel, My Soul To Keep, and encouraging two friends do the same. 100% of the author’s profits will go to ProLiteracy, an international non-profit whose mission is to end adult illiteracy worldwide.

Tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends, and so on and so on … and help thousands of eager adults learn to read this sentence. Be part of the solution!

This is how it works:

1) Purchase two of any Melanie Well’s Dylan Foster thriller, My Soul to Keep, at your local bookstore or through any of the online merchants listed on this site. Give the books to two friends and tell them about how they can help support adult literacy by each purchasing two books and giving them to two friends….then they tell two friends, and they’ll tell two friends….you get the point by now!

2) Sign up through the e-mail form to the right to receive e-mail updates about the campaign. To participate in the contest and earn the glory of raising the most funds for literacy, remember to sign up for the competition as well. Both forms are listed on the right side bar.

3) Make sure you keep track of who you tell and who they tell (this is what we call a “string”) because the people with the longest strings or who have told the most people will get some wicked prizes. This is where your creativity comes in. We don’t care how you show us, but you’ve got to show us! It could be through pictures, video or even a long laundry list. This way we will know who gets bragging rights for raising the most funds for literacy! We’ll post whatever your send us to show which readers are committed to the campaign.

4) Follow us on Twitter for other updates: www.twitter.com/itoldtwofriends

5) Tell two more friends and repeat steps 1, 3 & 4!