Patreon! (Or more importantly - Astreiant!)

[byslantedlight]

Hmmn - another of lj's features that I've never actually used - the share button! So let's give it a whirl, because I'm quite excited about this... *g*

Originally posted by mescott at Patreon!
My Patreon is live!After a bunch more talking and tweaking, I’ve decided to concentrate on Astreiant for now. I’m doing a simple monthly appeal: if enough people

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[just_ann_now]

I know the advice is always, "Write and post reviews!" and "Tell your friends about these books!" but it's nice to have something concrete to be able to do to help a writer. It must be tremendously difficult, and courageous, to lay your heart bare and ask for this kind of help. (Interesting note: N.K. Jemisin has one of these, too, and has over four thousand dollars pledged, per month. Wow.)

I'm so pleased that Melissa has met here initial goal, and so quickly. I hope this works out successfully for her.

[byslantedlight]

over four thousand dollars pledged
Blimey - good for her! I don't think I've seen her books around over here (but they must be, surely!) - have you read any? And interesting, cos she feeds into both my minds about Patreon etc. - she's been nominated for awards and is pretty well known in her field, but she's working at a full-time job as well as writing, and presumably can't afford to write full-time despite being a successful writer already, so needs Patreon... It must be pretty scary too, because even though people might pledge money in excitement for a few months, it's still a huge leap to quit a job that would otherwise pay you (hopefully) for years...

And yes! I was so happy to see patrons creeping up and up to Melissa's first goal today - here's hoping she gets to her second (and wouldn't it be wonderful if she got higher still!)

[just_ann_now]

I've read several of Jemisin's works, most recently The Fifth Season which I enjoyed very much. I am looking forward to the sequel coming out this fall.

[fiorenza_a]

Been thinking about this, I have a friend who writes professionally, and I have ambitions in that direction myself, but not in Romance - I think we both know I'm not cut out for that. It took my friend ten years to hone her writing to the point where she got any kind of deal

[mab_browne]

I think Patreon is a great idea for professional original writers. I have mixed feelings about the increasing acceptability of the idea for fanworks however.

[ariss_tenoh]

So basically it's like a digital subscription service-cum-donation? *blinks*