Mission of Creativity

As proprietor of DREAMWalker Group, it is Michael Walker's desire to express a deep sense of gratitude for all the good that has entered and continues to enter his life. To do this, he has created a free site that offers web profiles to creative people and provides a “one stop” venue for creative information and creative, spirit-based support. Insofar as this is a free site, he is also hopeful that this site will eventually become self-supporting. To make this a possibility, visitors to the site are encouraged to buy at least one item a year through the Amazon.com and other affiliate links^*.

(^*Note: If every amazing person currently listed on this site bought just one item using the Amazon Amazon.com search boxes, DREAMWalker Group would earn enough money to keep this free site up and running for about one and a half years!).

Pledge to Share Prosperity

DREAMWalker Group is a free site.  We believe that charging creative people for their profiles is unwarranted.  It is our primary purpose to give back to this brilliant, inspired, and inspirational community for all the wonderful things they’ve created and continue to create.

Insofar as giving is good; receiving is also a nice thing.  As is the maintenance of a standard of living that is conducive to happy creativity.  So as part of its mission to give and receive, DREAMWalker Group hereby promises the following:

To give back to the literary community a full 40% of all money earned from DREAMWalker Group.  (We haven't decided how best to do that just yet, but it will no doubt be in the way of several scholarships or prizes to current and future brilliant, creative folks and to supporting the literary/artistic community in other ways.)

• To give back to the literary community 40% of my commissions from sales on this site.  So far I'm a sponsor of Saints and Sinners Literary Festival and the Lambda Literary Foundation -- and with your help can do a lot more!
  
  If everybody on my site bought just one book (using the Amazon search engine on the left side of every page), it would pay for the site upkeep and some literary causes for a couple of years; if they bought all their books through this site -- well, we could totally save, sponsor, and provide prizes and scholarships to more people in the literary world! (Take a peek at our income from this site.)

• A full accounting of money earned and given away will be provided at Our Life is An Open Book.

To recap:  Once we pass the $100,000 mark (per year), DREAMWalker Group will give back to the community a full 40% of all additional money earned via this site.  This means that Out of every $100,000 earned DREAMWalker Group will give back $40,000.00 to the creative community; Out of every $1,000,000 earned, DREAMWalker Group will give back $400,000.00; and Out of every $10,000,000 earned, DREAMWalker Group will give back $4,000,000.00.  Etc.

Who will benefit most from this?

1. The brilliant, creative folks who continue to get free publicity and exposure via this continually growing and popular website.

2. Their publishers who can run free ads at the site – once they agree to provide cross links to DREAMWalker Group or free advertising in return.

3. DREAMWalker Group’s proprietor (Michael Walker).  Possibly freed from the burden of working a day job, he’ll have more time and money to use in maintaining this site.

4. Amazon.com – Out of 351 referrals in 2007, DREAMWalker Group earned $304.12 and Amazon.com brought in a whopping $5,756.71).  Just do the math!