An In-Depth Guide to My Patreons!

Please read carefully, as there has been some confusion lately. Read VERY carefully, please please!

I have three different patreons that are meant to cater to different types of shoppers.

If you want no extras and just stories, there are two patreons you are interested in. The Per Novel Patreon, and the Per Short Story Patreon. (Note: The monthly subscribers at the $10 tier (Otters, Cindercorns, Spicy Ponies with Bite) receive ALL benefits of BOTH of these patreons.)

These two are for those on a budget, fixed income, etc, and cannot do a subscription.

ALL Patreons receive content AT THE SAME TIME. The only time delay is how long it physically takes me to log in and out of accounts and set up the posts, which is usually no more than twenty minutes. I switch up which patreon gets the files first, so there is zero benefit in timing to any.

The novel Patreons (monthly AND per novel) receive the novels approximately 3 days prior to the retailers. The short stories will only be released to retail after I have a suitable large collection of them. No patreons will be receiving a copy of the story anthology, as they have already received the content.

The Per Novel Patreon can be found here, and ALL it gets are novels from ALL of my pen names, announced or otherwise. Only books valued between $4.99 and $7.99 are included, and no anthologies are ever included with any Patreon.

This patreon does not include ANY other perks; it is the novels and only the novels.

Examples of anthology: Pets in Space, Dirty Deeds, Water Witch. So, this counts collections of novellas and shorts only I have written, and it also counts anthologies where I’ve only contributed one story.

This patreon is billed via a charged post, and payments are taken from accounts on the 1st of every month.

The Per Story Patreon can be found here, and ALL it gets are short stories from ALL of my pen names, announced or otherwise. It receives no other perks.

This patreon is billed via a charged post, and payments are taken from accounts on the 1st of every month.

The next Patreon (Monthly) is where ALL the perks reside.

The Monthly Patreon can be found here, and it gets everything… depending on tier.

This is a monthly subscription billed at the time you sign up.

$2 (Tip Jar) and $5 (Pixies) get short stories, a backlist read along with author notes, and anything else all patrons receive.

The $10 (Otters), $25 (Cindercorns), and $100 (Spicy Ponies with Bite) receive ALL new novels, get sneak peeks depending on tier level, read alongs (Spicy Ponies with Bite rarely get read alongs of unreleased novels; as soon as I have more finished of Grave Affairs, they will be getting a scene-by-scene read along of Grave Affairs, unedited and full of warts.), and whatever else I have time to do when I’m not writing books.

I do polls for which read alongs to do next. If I give a gift book along with the new release, they vote on what’s coming next. Stuff like that. If I have a question for readers, they are often the ones I ask first.

The monthly Patreon is where a lot of the community stuff now happens, including polls, etc, etc, etc. (And Q&As, although I sometimes do those on Facebook as well.)

The Per Novel patreon is delivered solely by bookfunnel in messages moving forward. The Monthly can download from a post, as they pay in advance of seeing the content.

The Per Novel issues the books via a charged post, which is billed on the first of every month. So, if you buy a book on May 16, it will be billed on June 1. The system tracks if payments have been issued, so if you receive a book and you did not pay the bill, you’re removed from the list of eligible people to receive the link. So, I recommend you check on the 2nd to make certain you are billed.

The Monthly Patreon is paid in advance, and you have the choice between monthly or yearly subscriptions. (Yearly subscribers receive a 10% discount on the overall price of the subscription.)

The short story Patreon is billed via charged post, and the payment date is the first of every month.

I hope this helps clarify the situation.