Basically, that’s the deal: $40/month, and I start writing game worlds, minus the copyrighted crunchy bits. Patrons will get first look, readers will get to see the stuff later. If that interests you, the donation link is here.
Tag: patreon
The Monday Update to the I Wish To Replace This Computer fundraising drive.
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A very good day: we’re up to just under $390 in the thermometer.
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My Patreon has been updated (Patrons-only).
It’s a short story that has been sent to existing Patrons of my Patreon account; it should also be available who sign up now. I should also note that if I hit $60/month at Patreon I’ll be putting up a short story a month here (Patrons will get the story first, mind you). In case that’s an incentive.
Book of the Week: Lost Majority.
The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for Grabs – and Who Will Take It
Go.
Read.
This.
Book.
I first did when it came out in 2012 (heck, Amazon quoted my review in the Review section); and its arguments were extremely helpful in letting me see early the warning signs that the 2006/8 Democratic coalition wasn’t up to snuff when it came to winning the 2014 electorate. Go read it, and remember: nothing in there says that what happened to the Democrats can’t happen to the GOP, either. It can. It probably will, too.
And so, adieu to Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson’s Worlds.
Moe Lane
(Book of the week is a feature provided by my Patreon supporters. See here for further details, and here to support my writing.)
I have updated/put up a new reward on my Patreon account!
Clearly, the existing stuff wasn’t really getting people’s interest, so I have deleted the ones above $40 and added a new $60 level.
Original fictional content! (Once per month.)Starting at $60/month I will do original fictional material (1,000 words, or short-short story level), once per month, and put it on the blog. This cannot be game-specific material, or anything else that would violate another person’s copyright. Aslo, I will take patrons’ desires (when expressed) into account, although I reserve the right to not write anything that I’d find personally distasteful or objectionable.
So let’s see how that goes. If this experiment works, I might go in that direction a bit more.
Book of the Week: Lord of Light (We hit a Patreon goal!).
Patreon link here: they need buttons, frankly. Anyway: time to bring back Book of the Week as a regular feature. I’ll do it every Sunday, so that I can remember it easily, but we’ll begin with one for the rest of the week: Lord of Light. I mentioned it, like, five years ago, but it really is one of the best science fiction novels of the 1960s, and maybe the best one that Roger Zelazny ever wrote. It’s kind of about Hinduism (explicitly), kind of about Buddhism (explicitly), and kind of about how Enlightenment can take you over even when you don’t want it too; but it’s mostly just good. It’s so good, in fact, that I don’t know if anybody’s ever really tried to top it.
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All right… so what do you *want* to buy from me?
I’ve been experimenting with Patreon over the last few days, as you folks know, and I’ve come to a conclusion: while I’ve figured out pretty much what I want to sell to people it turns out that apparently it’s not something that people are particularly eager to buy. Which is actually kind of funny, because you’d think that I’d have worked that out first. Oh, well, that’s why it’s called an experiment.
So, back to Square One. What do people want to buy from me? – After all, clearly there’s at least some interest in what I do. I just need to figure out what people are willing to kick in a buck or three extra for, that’s all. And that I’m willing to sell, of course.
Contact form under the fold. And it should work; I just tested it.
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I have added goals to my Patreon page/experiment…
…in a fashion that hopefully suggests that I am taking the idea of Patreon seriously. I’ve decided to add goals that would both provide interesting content to my readers, and keep me from constantly having a lopsided writing ratio of six political posts to two non-political ones (a real problem in an election year). We will, as I said, see: I’m calling this an experiment for a reason…
An exciting new front in MoeLane.com’s attempts to leech money out of the Internet!
I have set up a Patreon account: MoeLane. Essentially, it’s a micropayment system (either monthly or one-time) designed for smaller content producers. Apparently this site of mine here arguably counts, as I am a quote-unquote ‘creator.’
Even if you don’t want to do this, if you have friends who are artists, musicians, writers, and/or do anything else that involves creating original content and putting it on the Internet you may want to let them know about this service. Patreon takes out a small (less than 10%) percent of the money that gets collected, in order to handle credit card processing (and stay in business); this does not seem particularly onerous to me, and the whole process is pretty much fire-and-forget. Check it out.