April 2024 Update (Patreon)

Getting back into the swing of things with these updates, bear with me here.

Hello folks!

It's been a few months (oi vey, a quarter of a year already!?) since I did a proper Update. Since I'm so behind on things, I'm going to use a lot of Subheadings to break things down. I'll start with the This Month stuff, and then backtrack from there.

What's Happening This Month on Patreon

Well, first off I am super appreciative to announce that OnlyFans Girl has a new Patron Saint, which means I'll be kicking off this month with an OFG Week. There were fears that we might end up seeing a downturn in OFG production, but that is no longer the case!

Beyond that fantastic news, I'm really happy to say that the new Side Story Sponsor tier has kicked off strong and filled up for this first month in a couple of hours, and there's already been discussion going on. It looks like we're definitely going to see some Unexpected Affection chapters, some more D&D Group chapters, and a start to Masseur and the Milf 2.

Tentative Writing Schedule

1st Week of April: OFG Week, starting tomorrow-Saturday

2nd Week of April: Sponsor Week (UA, D&D, MatM2)

3rd Week of April: FoF and QTNW

4th Week of April: Housekeeping work (AMA/OFG compiled bundles), maybe some more D&D chapters or something else on my mind

There will also be a Le Francais release in there somewhere.

General Patreon Update

This is more of an 'a place for Break to rant about something Patreon Related' section because some of y'all find this stuff interesting rather than an Update per se.

Last Year we ended April with 422 members of this community, and this April we're starting with 761! That's a pretty awesome amount of growth in 12 months when I look at it like that.

The thing is, when I look at the trends, two things stick out to me.

1) The larger the Patreon gets, the larger the 'drop' is every month on turnover. We were up around 840 at the end of March - I know some of you folks are managing Subscription issues by just cancelling and re-upping every month, but that seems to be getting less common now. Seeing those numbers change on the 1st of the month is one of those 'Well, Fuck... time to try and fix that!' in a Sisyphean sort of way.

2) The numbers have actually been fairly stagnant since the start of the year. I'm not sure if this is because of something different I've been doing (maybe missing these updates?) or something Economy-wise. Patreon removed the Exit Surveys for some reason - not that they were very useful most of the time - and I never want anyone to feel like they should feel bad about needing to prioritize their own budgeting over supporting me, but I wish I could KNOW what it is, hahaha. Maybe I need to dive back into Reddit and hit up the HaremLit/RomanceforMen subreddits that seemed to dislike me last time.

Either way, a healthy business is one that's growing. I'm hoping the new tier will help with that, but I also need to make sure I'm releasing more of the content in more places.

The good news is that, for the past couple of months, I haven't hated the back end of Patreon as much in the first few days of the month! Last year there were more than a few that had me banging my head against the wall for how their system would break. Now it seems to be running a little smoother... other than when they disappeared all of the funds from February, but I got that fixed (only took a week of emailing with support :/ All is good now.)

Updates on Series

I figure it's worth it to just get a list out there, for you guys and for myself, about what's going on with the different stories and series. Presented in alphabetical order so as not to suggest priority:

• Afterparty: The Bully Epilogue: On the sponsor list

• AMA: The Boyfriend: Hiatus for another couple of months before I start working on Arc 2

• Erection of the Runelords: On the Sponsor list.

• Font of Fertility: Actively being worked on

• Le Francais: Actively being worked on, big thanks to ThL!

• Love Cruise: On the Sponsor list. Haven't heard from commissioner in months.

• Masseur and the MILF 2: On the sponsor list

• OnlyFans Girl: Actively being worked on, has a Patron Saint again!

• Porcelain 2: On the Sponsor list

• QT: Florida Man: On the Sponsor list. I still like the concept, but it got buried behind other priorities.

• QT: Nashville: On the sponsor list. (What's this, you might be asking? Alpha Reader tier can see the start of it, much work left to go on it though)

• QT: North West: Actively being worked on

• Single Parent Pal-entine's Sequel: Hiatus for now, will eventually hit the Sponsor list

• Unexpected Affections: On the Sponsor list. Haven't heard from the original commissioner in months.

• Untitled D&D Group Story: Actively being worked on, still needs a title

• CLOSED STORIES: Afterparty: Backyard Games, Double or Naked, Dungeon Building: A Bugbear, Technically We're Still Engaged, Triple-Blonde Study

Character Art Updates

Bayushi is hard at work on Becks for the March release, but he's a working artist and I am but one small client compared to some of the other work he's shared with me that he does in the non-NSFW space. A poll for this month's character will be going up this week!

Also, I'm always on the lookout for talented artists who are Open for commissions AND have a price point that makes sense for me to commission at. If anyone has a favourite artist that has a Twitter I should follow to watch for, let me know!

Other Project Updates

Along with the series, there has been various talk about other projects here on the Patreon, and I haven't given an update on them recently so here's the skinny:

The Anthology: Authors are, in fact, cats. Difficult to herd, easily distracted, and tough to communicate with in large groups. I still really want to make this project happen! But I too am a cat, and a cat herding cats is even worse than a regular person because I have all the same issues. One (count 'em, one) author actually finished their story from the list of 9 I started out with. I blame myself for poor communication and leaving folks to their own devices more than anything, and want to get this project back on track.

The Illustrated Novella: Bayushi and I have gotten the character concept art nailed down for this project, and it's now waiting for me to finish the story before we start looking at the illustrations. That means carving out writing time from other projects though!

The Comic: We hit the milestone for the sexy comic, and I've started looking at ideas - the problem is, writing a sex comic is actually kind of hard. I've written comic scripts before, and some of them were pretty good in my opinion, but an Erotica comic? Packing in the plot and making the sex feel natural is warring with the limited space. I need to allow myself to be a bit more Porn-Minded than for most of these stories to make progress on this. I also kind of feel like I need to get the Illustrated Novella running more before I do polls for this.

Personal Update

Two big things going on in my life right now.

Thing 1) Winter did not help with losing weight. I'm going to be entering a bet here soon now that the weather has gotten better though; a (healthy) weight loss bet. With who, you might ask? A friend? Another author? No. My mother. We both need to lose weight - I probably have more I need to lose, but she's older (obviously) so I should be able to overcome this disadvantage XD. The bike is coming out of the shed, the tires are getting pumped, and I need get my legs pumping again before I look at more serious workouts.

Thing 2) I am going to need to move this summer, and the search has already begun. Dealing with banks and financial stuff is a general stressor for me even if things are OK, so I can derailed for half a day when I need to handle stuff around it. Not great for the workflow, but it needs to get done and I'm an Adult, God Damn It. Still, at some point in the next few months, I'll probably need to take at least a few days off to handle the physical move.

Oh, and the real estate situation (buying or renting) in Canada is fucking ridiculous.

The Song in QT: North West

For those of you who have gotten this far, well, here's your reward.

The song Kyla played for Harri on the way to the Rez in Chapter 23 got a LOT of good guesses, but no one ended up earning the Internet Cookie.

"The chaos of a fast guitar. A guttural shout. The kick in of fast rhythm guitar and smashing drums. Another scream, isolated, and then thick and almost operatic vocals over a speeding rhythm.

She’d picked perfectly. Not trying to calm down my adrenaline, and nothing too on the nose. The song transitioned into almost a groove, then picked up again quickly. The organised chaos of the song was a match to how I was feeling. To the spiking of my emotions, but bringing me back to that central groove that let me think clearly. It was the same way a firefight was going to go. Moments of extreme violence interspersed with strange, almost uncomfortable calm.

I drove through the song, and it descended into its final driving beat that had me bobbing my head lightly as I glared out the front window. The final beat cut off into silence."

The Song was BYOB by System of a Down

I think that's more than enough ranting and raving from me for now.

Cheers all!
~Break.