Stage Two, Amazon and What's Coming Next. (Patreon)

First off, I want to thank all of your for you amazing support. When I started writing crude fanfiction two years ago, I never imagined that things would spiral so horribly out of control that I'd eventually be releasing some real books for sale. Thanks to you, the fifteenth book cover is now in production and should soon be completed. I now have covers for all of the most important Pinwheel stories in their correct order, and for many of my side projects and one-offs. Equally importantly, I believe that I now possess the writing skills to go back and bring all of my older work up to a standard where I feel pretty confident selling it as a product on Amazon and other websites.

I have always dreamed of making something for people to enjoy, I have folders full of terrible comic books that I drew as a kid, and screenplays that will never see the light of day. Now thanks to your patronage I am realizing that dream, and I wouldn't have had the funding, nor the motivation to reach this stage without you. If you pledged one dollar, a hundred dollars, or if you just commented every now and then, thank you!

Once the editing on Black Velvet is completed, I intend to do an editing pass on pretty much all of the stories that have covers up to this point. Several are already complete, I don't foresee any serious hurdles except for the original Pinwheel, which may need some more lengthy rewrites. It shouldn't take too long, but there will be a short delay before the start of the next project while I get all of that sorted out. I will of course be providing daily updates as I always do during editing, and I'll be making new Ebooks and updating the Pastebin files with all of the changes. I probably won't be updating other websites with these changes, simply because the logistics of resubmitting so many stories is quite insurmountable at this point. That may change, but it's not my priority right now.

The end result will be a completely overhauled library of stories edited and updated to the best of my abilities, all with professional titled covers, made into Ebooks that will be fit for sale. Writing the stories and raising funds was Stage One, selling the Ebooks is Stage Two, and if all goes well I would like to eventually reach Stage Three which is selling merchandise (and providing it to Patrons of course!) Things like posters, t-shirts and novelty pillowcases are already within reach, maybe even limited print runs. I think that would be a lot of fun. That all depends on how well it goes with Amazon of course, (don't count your Krell eggs until they hatch and start blocking vents).

I'd also like to engage with you guys on the subject of how you'd like me to deliver these retail Ebooks to you. I feel like it would be wrong to charge for them in one place and provide them for free in another, but we're still a little ways off and there's plenty of time to get your feedback on the subject. Would you like the retail Ebooks to be exclusive to a Patreon tier? If so, what do you think is fair? Would you like for the retail Ebooks to be free for everyone up until the day they go live on Amazon? That's also an option! Should I personally email a zip file containing all of the Ebooks to everyone who ever pledged? If you have more ideas, let me know. Perhaps I should run a poll?

Regardless of what happens with the retail Ebooks, I will continue to produce regular Ebooks that will be available to everyone for free (they just won't have the covers included and maybe some of the special formatting), and I will continue to upload all of the stories to Pastebin and the various other websites that I post on. Paywalling any of the content would be functionally impossible, as I get my motivation and enjoyment from writing my daily updates and releasing my stories on sites like Literotica and Stories-Online, so by their nature they have to remain free or it would defeat the purpose. Even if you choose not to pay a penny, rest assured that you will always be able to read my stories and view all of the artwork. But if you want the super duper game of the year ultimate edition versions of the stories with both bells and whistles included, then I hope that I can produce a worthy product.

So let me know what you think, and here's hoping that we can keep this forward momentum going into next year!