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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.

[contact-form 1 “Contact form 1”]

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.