I didn’t think I could manage a Patreon. I’d want to run such a thing like a subscription magazine – a fixed amount of shiny new content every week. I didn’t think I had the capacity for that; I hate deadlines. I had a Patreon, of course; I’d created an account some time ago, but I never had any ideas for it, and I’ve never been any good at marketing.
After a trip to Anthrocon, I returned home to sort through some old stories to see if there was anything I could spruce up and sell, to pay off the rampaging credit card bill. What began as a simple creative audit turned into a deep-dive of long-forgotten stories stretching back forty years.
This was it. This was the content. I could post five thousand words a week for seven years without running out of material.
So I blew a foot of dust off the Patreon account, smartened it up a bit, set up two tiers, and launched.
The five-dollar tier is a basic subscription; it buys between four and six thousand words a week, posted every Sunday. I also added a ten-dollar tier, probably just because it seemed to want more than one tier, for incomplete stories and alternate takes, the sort of work-in-progress material that gets pushed aside when the story goes in a different direction. The WordPress blog, right here, will keep readers up to date on the behind-the-scenes material. None of these stories were written in a vacuum. Which is good; I need to breathe.
Nice to see some of these stories in the light of day. Hope to see you there.
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