We're waiting for you. You belong here.
It's a moment you look forward to every month. An escape from the chaos. A parcel arrives by hand. Inside are surprises - along with chapters of a mystery-romance story that unfolds and captivates more each month, written by a mother & daughter, shaped by people who read it.
Two hundred people.
The founding rate. Twelve dollars a month, for as long as you stay. Not a trial price. Not a first-year price.
Two hundred people will ever have it, because two people addressing envelopes by hand is a real ceiling, not a marketing one. Gift subscriptions count toward the two hundred as well.
We won't post a countdown. When it's full, it's full.
Join now and the chapters you missed come to you, from the first page.
Cancel anytime. If you ever want to stop, we'll refund the parcels we haven't mailed yet.
Wondering if we're real? We'll send you a letter — a real one, by mail — so you can hold it before deciding.
Send me a letterThe practice is mostly between mailings.
The Reading Room is the room in between.
The Reading Room is where the Keepers find each other between mailings.
Some share what they're thinking. Some debate where the story should go. Some write back to Jules and Nini. Some read along quietly, never posting a word. Some simply receive the parcel each month and let the rest pass by.
All of it counts.
Make new friends. Or meet people who feel like old ones. The Reading Room is offered, not required.
By hand.
Someone else told it first.
In June, ABC 7 and Fox 22 in Bangor ran a story about a mother and daughter in Maine mailing a novel to strangers.
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Made by hand
Each parcel assembled at the kitchen table — the booklet, the letter, the small things, all gathered for one Keeper at a time.
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Signed and sealed.
Every personal letter signed by Jules or Nini, then pressed with the J&N wax seal.
Every one. -
Sent by name.
One Keeper.
One parcel.
One name on the envelope.
It's you.
From Cumberland, Maine, and Woburn, Massachusetts.
Jules and Nini. Mother and daughter.
They started this on a drive to Florida — for reasons that didn't have anything to do with writing a book.
Her grandkids call her Nini, and it stuck.
A few notes that found their way back to us...
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Kris
"You have got to meet these two! Jules and Nini ... oh the stories they could tell! Can't wait to see their investigtive skills come to life. So excited!!"
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Emily & Greg
"Two partners in crime! Excited to learn what the dynamic mother/daughter duo will do next"
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Emily
"I only met Nini once, but by the end of that hour I felt as if her deadpan commentary and grounded experience as a New England matriarch were long-time friends.... their stories are about to keep me up til' 2am ... with silent laughter!
