Some Small Campaign Changes (Patreon)

Hey all,

As I try to get back on my feet, I have edited my goals and tiers a bit to better match what workload I can support while working fifty-plus-hours a week at my day job.

First off, the PubClub ongoing. I want this to be a core feature and plan to get this back underway this month--in fact, I should be posting the first bit of a new one later tonight. I do need to wrap up Birthday Party, but I feel like I ended up crushing myself with expectations (again). 

Speaking of crushed by expectations, Changelog. When I had an extra day off every week, revising three stories and writing another in addition to penning six or seven other new stories was a conceivable tempo. Now though, between life commitments and attempts to keep writing from consuming my life again, that is just not possible.

That said, the idea of Changelog is not going away, however, it is are getting a bit of a refactor for the time being. Once we reach $150, the Followup of the Month feature will unlock. In short, each month I will post a poll of several stories which I feel are open-ended enough to run with. The winning story will get revised, and I will also--as you might expect by the title--write a follow up to it to get them out to novelette length or more (about 20k). Like Changelog before it, this will come with cover art and, at later milestones, more art will be inside as well!

The basic version will be free to all paid patrons and once the Plus edition becomes available, it will be free for Publisher's Club members. Readers Club members will be able to upgrade their issue for a discount--although eventually I would like it to be free for all of you. 

I do still want to do a Changelog anthology, but that might turn into an annual which follows up on a few of the year's most popular stories--or it could be an actual anthology where I take submissions from other writers. Something to figure out later, I suppose.

Beyond that, not much else to say besides be excellent to each other!

- Misty F