In just eight days, McSweeney’s has raised over half of its fundraising goal of $150,000 as part of a campaign to fund its publishing projects.

McSweeney’s, an independent press founded by author Dave Eggers, publishes literary journals the Believer and Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern; a humor website, Internet Tendency; and an arts and culture podcast, The Organist. According to its Kickstarter page, donations will support these aforementioned projects, as well as its “crucial post-production, distribution, and publicity efforts” for two upcoming books, including an autobiographical collaboration called That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, by David Shields and Samantha Matthews; a YA book, Girl at the Bottom of the Sea, by Michelle Tea; and a picture book, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, by Dave Eggers and Tucker Nichols.

In exchange for their donations, backers will receive rewards, such as postcards by the McSweeney’s design team, doughnuts with the McSweeney’s staff, or, for $2,500, a painting of an animal by McSweeney’s founder Dave Eggers (“You choose the beast, Dave chooses the words”), and other advertised perks.

Late last year, McSweeney’s announced it would become a nonprofit. “We’ve always been a hand-to-mouth operation, and every year it gets just a little harder to be an independent publisher,” Eggers told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Now there’s the opportunity to raise money around a certain project or to write a grant for it, or even crowd-fund for it.”

Donations to the McSweeney’s Kickstarter campaign, however, are not tax-deductible; one doesn’t need to be a nonprofit in order to use crowdfunding websites.

Meanwhile: Eggers’ 826 Valencia has opened a new shop in San Francisco.