Tim Brookes

Thanks! Very interesting.

You can still late-pledge for rewards at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... !

Great news: my Kickstarter reached its funding goal at the last minute, to my great relief. I would like to thank everyone who shared and reposted it over the last month. If you let me know your name, I will include it in the acknowledgements of gratitude for the project. Thanks again!

Bringing It Back Home Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

My latest Kickstarter bulletin is that, alas, we are falling behind. We've taken in $12,473 in pledges, but we still have over $5000 before reaching the goal, with 17 hours to go. If you can help, please do so at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... Please phone a friend! Call for backup!

Bringing It Back Home Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

Kickstarter final day report. First 2 hours of the final 24: $281 pledged, an encouraging start given that 85% of my backers are in the US, and thus still asleep. A total of $12,363 pledged so far, less than $6000 to go. The race is on. Join in by pledging at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Bringing It Back Home Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

Over the next 24 hours we're going to make Endangered Alphabets fundraising history. Watch this space for updates every three hours, and pledge if you can at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... . Current status: $12,132 pledged, $6000 and change to go. Hold on tight.

Bringing It Back Home Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

Over the next 30 hours we're going to make Endangered Alphabets fundraising history. Watch this space for updates, and pledge if you can at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end.... Current status: $12,022 pledged of $18,350. Hold on tight.

Bringing It Back Home Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

Watch what is happening at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... over the next 34 hours. We are making Endangered Alphabets fundraising history.

Thanks for recognising the value that a language or a script has for its culture. And thanks, too, for your support, @becauselanguage.com

My Kickstarter campaign, ending on Sunday night, has suddenly picked up speed and is galloping toward its goal. Hop on and help it burst through the finishing tape! www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

The Kickstarter Diaries Part 16: Night and Day. The latest episode in the increasingly unhinged behind-the-scenes account of a crowdfunding campaign reaches a possibly psychotic conclusion: I control people's minds. Now read on at
www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/03/04/t...

Bringing It Back Home Getting my endangered alphabets carvings to where they are needed.

This Kickstarter campaign is going to be very close. I would be super grateful if you could share the link with anyone who might be interested. We have a week left and $10,000 to go. It's certainly doable, but it's going to be tight. The home page is at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

What happens when your Kickstarter goes viral and an avalanche of pledges comes in? It has happened to me only once, and it wasn’t the experience you might expect. Read the latest episode of my Kickstarter Diaries at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/26/t...

Our Script Keepers Network connects people trying to revive their writing systems with people who want to help. If you might be interested in either category, our next meeting is this Sunday. Join us! Information and registration link at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2025/02/26/l...

Er is (nog even) 'n fantastische expo in 't schitterende Alphabetum in @westdenhaag.bsky.social over obscure alfabetten: 'Writing systems of the other world'. Heel interessant, en een esthetisch stortbad. Lees de fraaie bijbehorende publicatie van @timbrookes.bsky.social: 'Alphabets born of dreams'.

The Kickstarter Diaries 14: Why Not Use AI? The latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life during a crowdfunding campaign. As the AI debate rages, especially on LinkedIn, I started wondering about the Endangered Alphabets...

The Kickstarter Diaries 14: Why Not Use AI?
As the AI debate rages, I started wondering about the Endangered Alphabets initiative that I’ll undertake if my current Kickstarter campaign is successful, and how it would be different with AI. Read more at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/23/k...

The lost art of letter writing bringing generations together In the hope of reviving letter writing, BBC North West Tonight has launched a pen pal project.

Haven't I been saying this for a year? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Check out my book By Hand at www.endangeredalphabets.com/by-hand/

Lying awake at night worrying about my Kickstarter campaign is not all bad. Look what arrived in my inbox at 5 a.m.--an astounding piece of inscription that I'm going to carve. You can read the story in the latest edition of my Kickstarter Diaries at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/21/t...

The latest entry in The Kickstarter Diaries, the tragicomic account of life during a crowdfunding campaign, is the strangest and yet the most potentially inspiring. Because I wrote it by hand. Check it out at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/20/t...

Hey, my friends! My annual Kickstarter campaign, the single biggest source of funding for the Endangered Alphabets Project, seems to have run aground. Can you make even a small pledge to help refloat it? www.kickstarter.com/projects/end...

Mark Oremland, who runs the Mundolingua language museum in Paris, is assembling a collection of typewriters in non-Latin fonts. I’ve seen photos of Cherokee typewriters, and if anyone has one they would like to donate, I’m sure he would be very happy to hear from you through me.

Episode 11 of the Kickstarter Diaries, the tragicomic account of my increasingly unhealthy activities during a crowdfunding campaign, is now available at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/19/t.... As they say in The House of the Rising Sun, "Mothers, tell your children/Not to do what I have done."

The Kickstarter Diaries 10: Asking for Help, the latest episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scene account of running a crowdfunding campaign, is now up at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/18/t... . At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I think this one is really worth reading.

Someone called Good Grief, from Australia, heard my plea. Thankyouthankyouthankyou.

My Kickstarter campaign has been stuck at this incredibly annoying number for 24 hours. Will someone please make even a tiny donation at www.kickstarter.com/projects/end... so I don't have to keep staring at it any longer?

Episode 8 of The Kickstarter Diaries, my daily tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life at the helm of a crowdfunding capaign, is now up. Find it at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/16/t...

The Kickstarter Diaries Part 7: New Reward, New Chance of Catastrophic Miscalculation. The latest episode of my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of a crowdfunding campaign is now up at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/15/t...

The Kickstarter Diaries 6: Bobsled Wow

The sixth episode in my tragicomic behind-the-scenes account of life during a crowdfunding campaign is now live at:

www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/14/t...

You can read the fifth episode of my behind-the-scenes Kickstarter diary at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/13/t...

The third episode of my behind-the-scenes Kickstarter diary is now up at www.endangeredalphabets.com/2026/02/11/t...