Blog Funding Days, 7 of 15

THE DAILY POST IS BELOW.

ALSO BEFORE STARTING THE RITUALIZED BEGGING, AN IMPORTANT AND JOYOUS ANNOUNCEMENT: DAVE FREER WON THE PROMETHEUS AWARD WITH HIS NOVEL CLOUD-CASTLES.
If you haven’t read it, go here to buy it. (Yeah, yeah #commission earned.)

NOW: Blog Funding Days, 7 of 15.

Someone told me my blog would fund if I posted a picture of a pair of boobies, so with deep confusion, here it is:

And very nice boobies they are! I guess there’s a lot of bird lovers around, yes?

Okay, ladies, gentlemen and small invertebrates: This here blog doesn’t write itself, the comments don’t manage themselves, and I spend a sizeable amount of my work day dealing with bloggy matters. My non-work days too, as Sunday must also be worked in, or I must do posting in advance. And don’t get me started about cons or vacations, particularly when in other time zones.

So, because it’s been brought to my attention that people actually like to be patrons of the arts — or in the case of this blog — the craft (No, not that craft, silly. Whatever this is, it ain’t witchcraft) I have set up three ways to help fund the blog.

(And yes, last year’s donors will get their rewards, even if I’ve been impossibly slow. No, I won’t bore you with why. I’ll just shut up and work on fulfilling promises.)

The first is Give Send Go. They forbid the use of incentives to donors. So if you give via GSG you’re doing it for the satisfaction of helping According to Hoyt stay up and for me to be compensated for my work. Yes, that total is scary but I never intended for it to be carried by GSG alone. That’s the funding goal for all methods, for the year. A keeping-track-of goal, you might say. To donate to Give Send Go: Link Here.

But if you want to get something for your donation, and particularly if you want to incentivize (totally a word) my fiction writing: I’ve started a substack called Chapter House, in which I’m serializing two novels, one fantasy and one Space Opera, at two chapters a week. (The idea is for Witch’s Daughter to get two new chapters on Wednesday, and Winter Prince two on Friday. because July is h*ll this year (Fun with DOCTORS! People and cat doctors. Yeah) these might slip for the next two/three weeks. After that they won’t.
Go to Chapter House, read the free portion of the books, and consider subscribing to receive the updates. You get a chance to read the novels as they unroll and perhaps to talk/argue about them. You’ll also get them at the end in ebook format. (I’ll try to have a free story once a month or so, for the free subscribers, but no promises) Anyway, to subscribe to Chapter House, the link is: Here.

And for those of you who have Patreon and just want to donate in a system you already have, I have one of those, and I will be posting life events, and excised scenes, and art, and … well, be warned, likely cat stuff. Because I’m owned by cats. Anyway, to donate on Patreon, please: Go here.

Finally, if you must send things by snailmail, yes, we accept checks, cash, and cat pictures. Do not send pictures of our cats, though. We’ve already seen those.

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