Matthew Hughes's Blog: barbarians of the beyond - Posts Tagged "patreon"
I've created a Patreon account
Well, I've done it.
I've created a Patreon account so that people who like my work and want me to keep on producing can support the effort with a dollar or a few each month.
In return for which they will not only get my sincere gratitude, but all kinds of rewards.
If you're interested, here's where to go: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4687520
I've created a Patreon account so that people who like my work and want me to keep on producing can support the effort with a dollar or a few each month.
In return for which they will not only get my sincere gratitude, but all kinds of rewards.
If you're interested, here's where to go: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4687520
Fourth Hapthorn novel?
In December, John Joseph Adams invited me to send him a story for the 100th issue of Lightspeed in April. I remembered that it was John, then slush reader for The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, who would have been the first person in the world to read a Henghis Hapthorn story. He passed “Mastermindless” on to Gordon Van Gelder, who made it my first sale to F&SF.
So it seems appropriate to bring old Henghis back onto the stage. I’ve just sent John a 10,000-word novelette, “Hapthorn’s Last Case,” which picks up his story a couple of weeks after the end of the third Hapthorn novel Hespira. The long-dreaded change from science to magic now looms in the offing.
I hope John likes it.
As I was finishing the draft, it occurred to me that those 10,000 words could make the opening of a fourth Hapthorn novel. That’s one of the projects Patreon may make possible if I draw enough patrons.
I’ve arbitrarily set a total of $1,000 in monthly pledges as the level at which I could afford to stop writing so many short stories for mags and anthologies and go back to mostly writing novels. But I may lower that bar as time goes by. I’m still feeling my way into this new kind of relationship with my readers.
If you’d like to be my patron, here’s a link.
So it seems appropriate to bring old Henghis back onto the stage. I’ve just sent John a 10,000-word novelette, “Hapthorn’s Last Case,” which picks up his story a couple of weeks after the end of the third Hapthorn novel Hespira. The long-dreaded change from science to magic now looms in the offing.
I hope John likes it.
As I was finishing the draft, it occurred to me that those 10,000 words could make the opening of a fourth Hapthorn novel. That’s one of the projects Patreon may make possible if I draw enough patrons.
I’ve arbitrarily set a total of $1,000 in monthly pledges as the level at which I could afford to stop writing so many short stories for mags and anthologies and go back to mostly writing novels. But I may lower that bar as time goes by. I’m still feeling my way into this new kind of relationship with my readers.
If you’d like to be my patron, here’s a link.
Ghost Dreams sold
PS Publishing wants my novel, Ghost Dreams, a contemporary fantasy novel about a commercial burglar haunted by the ghost of a woman who was railroaded into an insane asylum back in the 1940s. We'll make the deal after the holidays.
This is the fourth novel I've sold to PS, one of the UK's foremost small presses, and my twentieth sale overall.
I am grateful to my Patreon patrons for supporting me while I was writing Ghost Dreams. Their pledges make it possible for me to write longer works, instead of short stories and novelettes to sell to magazines for nine or ten cents a word.
I'm about to finish the first draft of a Dying Earthesque fantasy novel about three odd characters -- one of them a kind of god -- and all three of them unreliable narrators. It's been an interesting experience shaping the story. Again, Patreon pledges made it possible for me to do another novel-length work.
If you would like to be my patron, please visit my Patreon page.
This is the fourth novel I've sold to PS, one of the UK's foremost small presses, and my twentieth sale overall.
I am grateful to my Patreon patrons for supporting me while I was writing Ghost Dreams. Their pledges make it possible for me to write longer works, instead of short stories and novelettes to sell to magazines for nine or ten cents a word.
I'm about to finish the first draft of a Dying Earthesque fantasy novel about three odd characters -- one of them a kind of god -- and all three of them unreliable narrators. It's been an interesting experience shaping the story. Again, Patreon pledges made it possible for me to do another novel-length work.
If you would like to be my patron, please visit my Patreon page.
