Blog Funding Day 7 of 15

THE NORMAL DAILY POST IS BENEATH THIS ONE.

Hey, what do you know. Posting boobs worked!
Continuing on a theme, have some tits. What’s best? The tagging on this assures me they’re GREAT tits. So, have some GREAT tits. (They are very pretty.)

And I promise a Great Big Fat Tit at the end.

Now, for the serious side: This blog takes up a lot of my life. And when I’m not feeling well — yes, Dan had surgery but I managed to catch a cold at the hospital — sometimes all I can do is the blog. You can tell because I end up posting really late. So, in a way it’s my job, and therefore, yeah, okay, I should be paid for it. This is a realization that took me a long time, and somewhere up in heaven, Jerry Pournelle is laughing that he finally won that argument.

Yes, I write fiction, but funding the blog will help me offload some of the other not-writing stuff I do which make it even harder to find time for writing. Like maintaining the blog links — note that there are new ones, please — and maybe even (aspirational) getting my writer’s website as well as that promotional site for writers to the right of Lenin set up.

And hey, maybe I’ll have time to write more fiction and that will make me so much money I won’t need to run funding days next year. (And probably twice more before December because, yeah. This year!) It could happen.
But that’s not THIS year….

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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