“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.
Tag: patreon
THE GOBLIN is now available on Patreon for free members.
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.
The Revised and somewhat expanded ‘Audition’ is up on Patreon.
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.
Tweet of the Day, I Am Not Accommodating iOS On My Patreon edition.
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.
Patreon Microfiction: ‘Up Above.’
‘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.
Patreon Microfiction: Deep They Delved, Once.
‘Deep They Delved, Once’ is a Fermi Resolution story, but it hasn’t jelled yet. Maybe this week.
Patreon Microfiction: Keep Your Distance.
Alas for the hero of ‘Keep Your Distance,’ humanity can understand aliens that hate them. Humanity can understand aliens that love them. What it has difficulty grasping is the idea that there may be aliens who simply couldn’t care less.
Soooo… ‘The Goblin’ is up on Patreon.
“The Goblin” is 4K words, and I apologize in advance.
The September Patreon stuff is up!
Huzzah. Short story is only three thousand words, because I realized I needed to work out who those guys actually were. I have a better feel for them, now.
Behold!
- Short Story: Deadlime. A Fermi Resolution story! I have thoughts on what these guys might do.
- RPG Material: Resurgence, Part Five: Problems. This may be the last one of this batch.
Patreon Microfiction: Rationalization.
Yeah, ‘Rationalization’ works as a title on several levels. You gotta feel at least a little bad for that entity, though. The situation is obviously not optimal, only nobody involved and making dumb decisions particularly wants it fixed. They just want somebody to blame. We’ve all been there.