Zombies never made as much sense to me as revenants do. I can buy the idea of a spirit taking control of its old body and piloting it with the, ah, detachment of the grave more than I can really believe in a shambling zombie with a hunger for brains and warm flesh. The latter just seems to require more steps, I guess.
Anyway.
I cannot counsel that enough. Let Sleeping Djinni Lie. Wishes are dangerous.
He provides a necessary and valuable service for the community. He does not overcharge for his services. He is scrupulous in adhering to local law, customs, and moral codes. So, indeed, what he does with the fruits probably Ain’t Your Business.
This isn’t a nag at people to fix their credit card information, just a reminder that if your card gets declined you’ll end up not seeing the paid stuff at my Patreon. Or possibly not even the free stuff. I’m never going to give anybody grief for ending their support for me here, but if it’s just that something technical happened with a credit card expiration or something, well…
PS: You can tell your friends about my Patreon, mind you. It is, as they say, allowed.
“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.” The conceit of “Beneath Their Notice” is that the grass has an opinion about that. And possibly even a response.
I’m trying to sweeten the pot, get some signups that way. THE GOBLIN was recently made available for people with paid memberships; this is the free-membership version. Check it out, and you don’t need to tell me that the protagonist is at least mildly awful. I wrote him to be that way.
I was going to send this out to be sold somewhere, but: there’s nowhere to send it to. Novelettes and novellas are the bastard children of the writing world anyway, and all the paying venues are drowning in a sea of slush piles overflowing with AI popslop. Patreon is where the stories get sold, now. It’s all about the subscriptions.
So. Tell your friends!
Moe Lane
PS: I’m giving serious consideration to expanding my Substack to include reprints of some of the stuff found here. I don’t know if I want to, though. Or if I want to create paywalled posts for said Substack, in addition to the free posts I do now over there. It’s a tough question for me.
Short version is: part of the change on this is that Patreon is doing a mandatory switch to a subscription billing model, instead of first-of-the-month billing. I don’t expect to get any new readers from Apple products anyway; my readers seem indifferent to the proposed change; and every time something does change in this sort of thing, somebody unsubscribes*. It’s not in my best interests to mess with the status quo, in other words.
So no thanks.
Starting 11/1, if you purchase a Patreon membership or show from our Patreon store through the iOS app, Apple will charge you a 30% fee. This fee will not affect members who join 10/31 or earlier. We recommend using a different app/platform to make purchases starting 11/1. pic.twitter.com/le8leCmWRa
— Night Vale podcast (@NightValeRadio) October 21, 2024
*Yeah, I know the last two points come across as contradictory. They’re also both true. Sue me.
‘Up Above’ would have been an interesting novel for me to have written, twenty years ago. Oh, well, I was kind of busy at the time. Besides, twenty years ago I wasn’t as good a writer.
