Post of the day — Meme post — below.
It has been suggested that I keep a discrete post up top indicating links on the side of the blog for the fundraising sites, so people can hit the tip when they feel like/have extra money.
What does the commentariat think?
I haven’t done it in the past mostly because idiots use this as proof that I don’t make enough as a fiction writer. But that’s not the calculus — though frankly, I’m just starting to ramp up the fiction writing again, as health recovers — it’s rather that I do this every day, and people seem to appreciate it, so it should be paid. I.e. it has a value. Besides, Heinlein said writing for free is immoral. And that tastes right to me. So perhaps it’s a remnant of sensitivity from the days when I had to look good to (traditional) publisher, even if it hurt.
Of course, I’ll have to hire someone to put in the links, because Dan has been working round the clock, and I can’t figure out how to put the links in when the blog is hosted by wordpress. (They’re…. special about links.)
Anyway, day five of blog funding. Slow but not stopped! Hanging fire at 11.5k
You can choose from Give Send Go, in which case you are donating to make it possible for me to keep this blog up and not lose my mind or get incredibly ill as …. as has been the case these last ten years. Give Send Go forbids incentive donations. So, that’s that.
If you want to donate to keep Sarah marginally healthier and saner while writing blog and books, please go here: Link Here.
If you wish to more directly support my fiction writing, other than by buying books (again, this helps me do things like pay my assistant, and maybe finally pay someone to revamp my blog) and this other means is part of the funding: Subscribe to my substack, where I’m serializing the novels Witch’s Daughter and Winter Prince. (Update on Witch’s Daughter up, and Winter Prince are up. Another chapter of Winter Prince being finished after this. We … uh…. had a middle of the night wake up. Yes, reasons. No, not health.)
Anyway, to subscribe to Chapter House, the link is: Here.
And finally, a few of you informed me you are Patreon Donors. I have no idea what to do with Patreon, since it has some issues copyright and other ways. BUT I will try to do a post once a week. My warning that it will be mostly about cats is, well… a warning. It can be tons of other things, such as art or an outtake on a past or future novel. And probably will be. Unless I’m mourning a very beloved kitten and share that. (Sorry.)
Anyway, to donate on Patreon, please: Go here.
Finally, if you must send things by snailmail, yes, we accept checks, cash, cat toys* and gold coins. *Please do not send live rodents. It freaks the manager.
304 S. Jones Blvd, Suite 6771
Las Vegas, NV 89107
Now I go mainline coffee and finish chapter.
Post of the day — Meme post — below.
According To Hoyt 
Links, and the Vegas address permanently on the blog is a great idea, with an annual reminder.
Is it good or bad that Dan is working around the clock? If hourly plus overtime, or salary not exempt (get overtime even if salary), good. If salary exempt (don’t get overtime even if working it), bad. Regardless it is hard to set work balance when you work from home. Heck it is hard to set work balance when you go into work, I know. Worse either way when one is a contractor. Even worse for us programmers.
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salary and overtime, but he tends to underbill, because he forgets how much he works. Which I grant you is a personal problem.
But over the last two years it has been excessive to the point it’s affecting both of us, including health.
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I’d resemble that. I’d have to religiously have something that forced me to put down start/stop times to get it right.
It would. The job he is doing in of itself is exhausting mentally, add the length of time he is working. I’d be surprised it didn’t affect both of you and both of your health.
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Not helped when you have to coordinate with people in India and CA.
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I agree with D.
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Yes, do post links.
Perhaps as a temporary, a pinned post “Tip Jar and links to Works” with comments disabled.
Get Paid!
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Cringe. My problem with that is I don’t want to give the usual suspects (not Sarah, just the tools she’d have to use) direct regular access to any of my accounts. So I’d rather send a check to the Vegas address.
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The pinned post could include the Vegas address.
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Agree. But what would trigger comments to be enabled? Unless Dan builds Sarah her own personal tool. Sarah has already pointed out that is a nonstarter.
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Not sure what you’re asking about.
Sarah had said that “links on the blog side bar would require Dan’s help and that he’s too busy for that”.
However, it is possible for Sarah to create a “pinned post” with the links as an informational thing with comments (from us) turned off.
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yes. it is.
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Ah. Okay. 100% misunderstood your original comment. Was thinking of other blogs that I’ve read but cannot comment on because not subscribed to. You aren’t talking about that. Doesn’t help that in 35 years I avoided any internet or phone app programming. Well “avoided” is probably incorrect. Just was never part of my jobs, and playing around on tools not using, and not going to be using, wasn’t something I do or did.
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Your bank / credit union may have a bill pay service that will cut and send a check automatically.
My credit union does, with no fee.
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So does our credit union. Sarah is already in as a payee. Presume the Vegas address is the same as before? Just a matter of when there is spare money. Right now, not so much.
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Yep. And that’s fine. Don’t worry if you can’t donate. HUGS.
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And if it’s Zelle, it’s actually provided by JP Morgan Chase.
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Yes, do “keep a discrete post up top indicating links on the side of the blog for the fundraising sites, so people can hit the tip when they feel like/have extra money.”
Big grin!
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Pinned post — super brief, consisting only of “Support AtH” — at the top of the blog is a Very Much Yes kind of thing.
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Hmm. Actually, I don’t have any problems with my blog other than not doing it… But I write in HTML, not their “simplifying” tools.
Get this new pool set up, and I may experiment with my WP account a bit.
Are you hosting on wordpress.com? I’m not finding a theme name anywhere, either – that could be part of your problems, if the theme is doing something odd.
Anyway, at least a couple of weeks, if I do get into it. I need to futz with mine anyway, as I need to get back to blogging myself as part of the restart.
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Yes, please do leave a set of links for those spur-of-the-moments when we’re feeling a little flush and generous and willing to share.
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Since this is not just me — the fundraising being slow — but over the months I’ve seen a lot of my fellow bloggers go from one to two fundraiser a year, because people are donating less at a time, It might not be a bad idea to leave links up and remind every three months.
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Links sound good to me,
but I already dropped on two of three
( I have donated to others via Patreon before,
and never considered what their overhead might be,)
Since Sarah seemed hesitant, I did what I could
handle with the other two. GSG is right up front about
charging the giver with the overhead, so I expect I know what
Sarah will get from them. The substack/ChapterHouse thing is
new to me; hopefully I will get around to reading stuff,
and also hopefully Sarah gets a major percentage of what I dropped to them.
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They seem to pay out almost all of it to the author. Their take is relatively minor. Substack.
And it pleases me since it helps with the fiction.
And I saw your donations and thank you.
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Good to hear funds are continuing to trickle in! Remember, you’ll owe taxes on the funds received!
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