Blog Funding Days, Day 13 of 15

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THE DAILY POST IS BELOW!

Hi!

My name is Sarah A. Hoyt and I run this blog, in addition to writing novels, cleaning the house, managing to keep the mathematician in touch (eh!) with reality, writing the occasional short story, attempting to manage my publicity and publishing. I’m tired. very. And frankly there are — right now — weeds in my front flower beds that are taller than my sons. (Who are both over six feet.)

The main reason to run this fundraiser is that I write this blog and treat it as a job. So, I think I should get paid.

The secondary reason is that I’d like to contract out some of the stuff, particularly the stuff I am really bad at, like putting links on this blog/blog maintenance for both here and MGC, and setting up of my writer site and…. other sites, as well as publicity and all that. Which necessitates money.

The tertiary reason is to keep paying my assistant who does things like remind me of anthology deadlines and book medical appointments for me and/or the cats, because otherwise it will eat my life. (Yeah, she’s not expensive, but she’s very good and deserves to be paid also.) Also to pay my copyeditor. Because you REALLY don’t want my books with all their typos upon them. Those of you who subscribe to Chapter House are probably getting a feeling for how bad those typos are.

I’d like to get enough of this delegated that I can sleep in on alternate Sundays. Maybe.

Anyway, mostly it is “I do the work, and would like to get paid.”

We think we found a way to mail out rewards (They’ll be coming from SAHswag) and I’m going to assemble that collection of USAian shorts this week, well before the due date at the end of next month. It might take me a little longer to kill all of you who paid to get killed. And mailing out physical books WILL be the end of next month, for various reasons. (Mostly time.) So, watch your mailboxes, real and virtual.

This year, for various reasons, but mostly because Give Send Go Forbids it, but also because I’m trying to simplify life, not complicate it, I’m doing either “no reward” or “Reward is obvious from subscription.

The first option to donate 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.

’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. Anyway, to subscribe to Chapter House, the link is: Here.

(For subscribers: I’ve first-personned (totally a term) Winter Prince, and finishing 2 new chapters now. More on Friday.)

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.

(For the subscribers on Patreon: I ended up making the doughnuts, and they are just as good as I remember. Downside: ate too many. They’re very More-ish.)

Finally, if you must send things by snailmail, yes, we accept checks, cash, and gold coins. Just package those really well.

304 S. Jones Blvd, Suite 6771
Las Vegas, NV 89107

Oh, and while funding looks really low, I found in the past that about half comes in after I close. I don’t know why. I think it’s people keeping it in mind then finding the money. So, it will be lower than last year, but not THAT low. Probably. I hope.

And now more pretty pictures, which someone mentioned might be suitable for screen savers (though I think you’ll need AI embigenning for that)

20 thoughts on “Blog Funding Days, Day 13 of 15”

  1. Pretty, pretty!

    Apparently the reason we have wendigo stories about cannibalism, is that an awful lot of tribes/settlers would spread out in the winter and live in hunting camps, so as not to kill off and scare off all the game and furbearing critters.

    And if you weren’t lucky in finding enough game, your hunting camp might starve and resort to cannibalism.

    St. Kateri’s best friend (female) lived in a camp like that, and narrowly escaped getting eaten after her husband died of sickness.

    So yeah, let’s blame the wendigo, rather than our neighbors who nearly killed us; and yeah, that’s also a reason to move to another town before next winter.

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  3. Okay… Confluence is this weekend, which has historically been a fun con, but which is oddly more like an East Coast than a Midwest con. (I say oddly, because of course Pittsburgh says “pop” and has other Midwestern markers.)

    And I happened to check their webpage, because sigh.

    Obviously their webpage dates back many months ago… but they have a bit explaining how they reluctantly made masking optional this year, because they realized that the hotel guests and staff were not going to be wearing masks or testing for Coof at all, period.

    (And yet, we’re talking a decision made in 2022 or 2023, when masking was optional or totally forgotten at other Pittsburgh cons last year.)

    Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up…. And their concom still has a Covid Reporting Form for attendees, which honestly sounds like a “We want to increase our own liability toward lawsuits” form.

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  5. It took me a few days to decide on an option, but I now have a 1-year subscription to Chapter House. Thank you for the choice!

    Lovely pictures as always! Although I found myself counting fingers. And Lady Liberty looks like she is about to grab a waffle cone from DQ??? Just kidding. ;-)

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  6. Note that Chris Muir’s Day By Day for July 19 is a support strip for According To Hoyt’s fundraiser.

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    1. It doesn’t bloom. Also it’s fairly yucky looking. Look, nothing grew in CO. Weeds taller than me are a shock.
      OTOH tomatoes are invading. Or at least we’ve been trying to eat them into submission, and keep getting more.
      Attack of the killer tomatoes. :D

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          1. Oh, I forgot, fried green tomatoes and tomato pickles.

            Can’t dry anything this year in New Hampshire. It’s been raining at least every other day, and the non-rain days are so humid you have to take a bath to dry off.

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    2. It’s a volunteer.

      The problem with the volunteer loosestrife was that it would be bent double by rain, and it grew too close to the walkway and when full grown it would entirely cover it.

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