BLog Funding Day One

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Having proven myself unable to actually mail rewards on time or anything close to it — even email rewards — (though this year has been exceptionally bad on the personal front. Yes, I can tell you how, if you have a pint and two hours) I’ve decided to completely revamp the fund raising, so it’s “self fulfilling.”

THAT SAID, LAST YEARS DEBTS WILL BE PAID. I WILL PUT THE MP3 HERE FOR DOWNLOAD SOMETIME THIS WEEK, AND THEN THE LINK TO DOWNLOAD THE COLLECTION OF USAIAN STORIES. IF YOU DONATED TO LAST YEAR’S FUNDRAISER AT A LEVEL TO GET A FULL TUCKERIZATION AND/OR MENTORING, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT sahswag@outlook.com. AND IF YOU WANT PHYSICAL BOOKS, AND DONATED AT A LEVEL TO GET ONE (OR MORE) PLEASE SEND ME YOUR SNAILMAIL TO sahswag@outlook.com.

Anyway, meanwhile this year we’re going with three places to donate.

If you just want to keep this blog going, ensure I have some compensation for my work here every day, and that my husband has less cause to growl at my being head-down in the blog at all hours, there is a place to donate at GiveSendGo.

Note by the rules of GiveSendGo, I’m not allowed to offer incentives. All I can promise is that I’ll work at this blog as hard as I can for the next year.

Also that goal is for the TOTAL fundraiser, so I don’t expect to hit it on GSG, no. But it’s important to know what the total is. Years ago Jerry said I should be making 50k out of the blog and tried to push me to fundraise. This is not even really adjusted for inflation.

I also know everyone is having a tough time right now, so note THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY, it’s just an attempt to be paid for my work.

If GSG doesn’t appeal to you, there are two other options: I have started a serializing blog on Substack, called Chapter House, where I put two novels — Witch’s Daughter and Winter Prince — already started in public. Starting tomorrow I will start adding two chapters a week to each of them till done. I’d like to start a third — mystery — novel, but we’ll see how I do with these first.

Note that if you just hit subscribe on that, it will be the UNPAID subscription. Which means you won’t get the new chapters, though I’ll try to put up a new or old short story there once a month or so. For the paid subscriptions, and to help the blog’s funding roll, go here: PAY FOR SUBSCRIPTION.

I have no idea if substack is NORMALLY retarded about making it difficult to subscribe for money, or if I did something wrong in setting it up. I suspect the later?

AND also being updated tomorrow, with something, probably a cat story (TBH) is a new Patreon. (Note I’m also trying to provide non-political gathering spaces for those who want to hang but have turned off politics.) Sarah’s Patreon.

Will all the stories be about cats? I doubt it. You’ll probably get random cut scenes and art, too, just because. BUT stories about cats is the worst case scenario, and I want to provide truth in advertising, since I’m a crazy cat lady with a writing problem.

If you want to support the blog by check (or cash, wrapped in aluminum foil. You know who you are. And yes, more than one of you.):

Sarah A. Hoyt

304 S. Jones Blvd, Suite 6771

Las Vegas, NV 89107

And that’s it for day one. The image above is free and released under creative commons, of course, as always.

26 thoughts on “BLog Funding Day One”

  2. Sarah, when I hit subscribe on SubStack, it gave me a full set of options, and free was one of them; the default was Annual. Since I already have a subscription to Schroedingers, my options may have been set differently.

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    1. Ah, but there’s one on top that is free. Or at least it showed it to me when logged out.
      Um…. Schrodingers isn’t aid. I mean I probably will allow payment because some people want to give me money. BUT it’s just a newsletter.

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      1. Oh, I know. But I’m not sure how SubStack handles things differently depending on who you’re subscribed to, and how. It’s not necessarily anything you did or didn’t do.

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  6. I subscribed through Substack. One of my credit careds blocked the transaction, but the other one worked. Depending on finances, I may be able to do GSG as well.

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  9. Are there links to the Patreon, Substack, and GiveSendGo pages somewhere?

    Looked for them in posts and the sidebar… Am I missing something? If not, putting them in the post where you mention them would help us do the thing you’re asking for (and which I will be happy to do…just need to know where).

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    1. i was gonna put the GSG link here, but I can’t find it where i thought it was, and I am at work, so I don’t have my home email to give the linkage.

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  10. Several odds and ends here.
    I think I chipped in a hundred last go round, didn’t do it for the swag, so no biggie.
    Still moderating Sarah’s Diner over on Baen’s Bar and making sure to post the link for every new Schrodinger Path.
    Will continue our arrangement to provide you Beta reads and copy edits at the friends and family discount.
    Will eventually get around to doing another donation. How much depends on my research on how to turn poker into a reliable revenue stream.
    And so really sorry about the kitten. Reminded me why I’ve decided to not ever take on another pet, trading joy for the inevitable sense of loss.

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  11. I chipped in to GSG. I’ll try to add a little more later, when the medical stuff’s paid off. (Does the warranty end when the last payment’s made, like a car? #askingforafriend)

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    1. I thought Rodney explained that, something about “busting the warranty limits”…. ;-)

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    3. warranty end when the last payment’s made, like a car
      ……………..

      On medical? HaHaHaHa …. wait your friend is serious? Pretty sure warranty was void the minute the procedure was completed.

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