Hardcore Literature Merchandise Now Available (The Great Writers Collection) (Patreon)

Many of you have expressed interest in t-shirts, journals, mugs, and that sort of thing.

So I’ve taken on a designer and we’re getting the ball rolling!

The Hardcore Literature “Great Writers Collection” series of mugs is now available with:

• Tolstoy 
• Proust 
• Dostoyevsky 
• Austen 

Cervantes, Hesse, Hugo, and more will make an appearance soon. 

We also have the "Great Poet Series", which has their poetry printed on one side. So far we have:

• Emily Dickinson 
• Robert Browning 

We had A LOT of fun designing these. 

I must say I really like the branding. 

You’ve got a nice illustration of the author on one side, with colour corresponding to the literary age/epoch (Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy are burgundy, Austen is a lush deep green, and Proust is royal blue), and then on the other side you have one of my favourite quotes from the Big Read on the book club schedule.

I had some fun writing the little tongue-in-cheek descriptions for each one - can you tell?

I’ve ordered these myself and will do an unboxing at some point. You’ll also see me sipping from these from now on (Proust when we read Proust, Austen for Austen).

Purchases of mugs directly supports building Hardcore Literature and goes straight into hosting costs and towards new filming equipment so we can level-up the lectures. Plus… they just look cool, don’t they?

As many of you know from one-on-one discussions, we’ll have a few more fun things coming out soon. Here are some of the current back-end projects my designer is working on:

• Book bags
• Journals for each book
• Literary-themed phone cases
• Clothing - t-shirts, hoodies, etc (author/book series prints)

We’ve also got Hardcore Literature Publishing on the horizon, out of necessity. So as to avoid purchasing disparate books for short stories and poems, we’ll group them together in our own anthology, along with introductions and commentaries, so they’re all in one place.

Thank you if you do grab a mug! 

Let me know which Great Writer you're drinking from, and your beverage/book pairing.

The mugs are over here.

Happy reading - and drinking!