I have a Patreon! It’s a place for me to share a few things that don’t quite fit in my main blog, as well as share early access to treats and research with people who’d like more of that, sooner. It’s also a chance to have some conversations in the comments.
What’s Patreon about?
Patreon – as you might be aware – is a way creators can share material with people who are interested in supporting or following them. Posts can be public or limited to a specific tier of support. Patreon’s great ofr four reasons.
1) More stories! I have a lot of bits of extras and side stories, and I love getting to share them.
2) We can have conversations in the comments! Conversations are great. (You’ll need an account to do this, but there’s no cost for commenting on my public posts.)
3) A place to talk about some things that don’t quite fit on the main authorial blog, like writing tools and process, updates on specifics about the progress for books, etc.
4) A way to support my writing. Some of my readers (thank you!) have asked about ways to support me beyond buying books and sharing about my books with others. This is a way to do that, but I want to make sure all the content will be available to everyone over time.
Backing me means you get early access. Read on for more about the details of that.
The tiers
All tiers get exactly the same access – choose the one that suits your budget best! You can also pick your own number over $1 US.
If money’s tight for you, it’s absolutely fine with me for you to subscribe for a month and then cancel when you need to. (There will be continuing new content, of course.)
What Patrons get
In 2025, Patrons are getting a new instalment in three different series of extras every month. There will also be a public post about something relating to writing or research. (Got something you’d like me to talk about? Send me a note or a message and let me know.)
Check out the specifics planned for 2025.
Each set of stories is grouped into a collection, arranged in chronological order, so you can catch up or reread easily when you want to.
Extras
These extras are designed so that you don’t need to have read a specific book to enjoy them. Some of them are prequels to an upcoming book. (For example, A Fox Hunt or Schola Tales). Others take place alongside multiple books, with enough context to make sense of what’s going on. (Ritual Time, which follows Cyrus over about 15 years.)
If there are spoilers for plots of specific books involved, I make a note at the top of the post.
Extras will have had basic editing (typos, taming my commas, etc.). They won’t yet be revised for details in keeping with the larger arc of the extra or upcoming books.
When the full extra is ready, I’ll share it with everyone on my newsletter. I’ll also share a link to the entire extra in my Patreon to make it easy for patrons to get. (Check out the Completed Extras collection for those links.)
Sound intriguing? I hope you’ll join me on Patreon in some form.
Creating an account on Patreon
Here’s how to get started if you don’t already have a Patreon account. If you have any concerns about privacy, here’s some information from them about privacy choices.
Once you have an account, you can follow me (click the follow button on my page to get an email when I make a new post) or subscribe to a tier (read on for more about those options.) I’ll also be including links to all my public Patreon posts in the newsletter after they go up, so you can also keep up there.