Fundraising Post, Day 8 of 15

POST OF THE DAY BELOW THIS.

Part of the reason I hate fundraising is that it’s so tedious. I mean, here we are on day 8 and what can I tell you about the reason I’m fundraising, that you haven’t heard before?

OTOH of course there are people who only check this blog every week or every other week, or whatever, or who were on vacation and haven’t seen this. Or who skipped the fundraising posts because they simply didn’t want to deal with it but won’t remember if I don’t repeat. Or–

Every time I do a fundraiser there will be people who say “Oh, I missed it” and send stuff late, who never actually saw the post.

So the way I’m dealing with the tedium of showing you the same info over and over is either silly stuff (Like the ornithology pics this week) OR by giving you something beautiful.

Today it’s beautiful pictures obtained while I was playing with midjourney bot.

Anyway: As to why I’m fundraising. I spend a lot of time every day on this blog. If the blog doesn’t pay its own way, I’m going to perhaps have a lot more of fill in posts and things, even when I’m not having fun with doctors type of weeks. Mostly? Because I can’t justify it.

Mind you, the way this is going, I’m really to have to push on the fiction, to make ends meet. And that’s fine. It’s just choices, and I should be doing it anyway.

It’s just there’s only so many hours in the day, so… I try to make these hours pay as well, since I do work at it. (Yes, to an extent it’s also fun, but so is fiction and it’s fun of a peculiar kind that comes with a sense of obligation and a need to have to will power to work.)

Anyway, so the blog is fundraising. Which not only pays me for my work, but allows me to pay my assistant (No, not Indy. Holly. She does things like remind me of short stories due to anthologies, and makes arrangements for conventions and stuff…) and people to do my websites and– Eventually younger son and lovely fiance to run stuff like boxes from Sarah’s garage, which is on hold but not lost. Lovely fiance is also doing audiobooks of the Dyce series, for which I must pay. (Yes, I know I could do kickstarter. And might.)

(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.)

Anyway, for all those reasons, and for me to have time to sleep now and then:

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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