Since I haven’t been earning much money from subscriptions to my Patreon — which these days has little to offer except my weekly reviews and very infrequent fiction posts, since I’m not a fast enough writer to come up with exclusive fiction content regularly — I’ve finally decided to take advantage of the feature that lets non-members buy individual posts or collections of posts for a one-time payment. I don’t know if I’ll sell much this way, but it’s worth a try. Some people might be more willing to pay a one-time fee for permanent access to a story or collection than to pay a subscription for monthly access, even though my subscription prices are extremely low.

The stories in my Original Fiction tier are now available to purchase for $3 each, which is more than I wanted to charge, but it’s the minimum Patreon will allow. Partly because of that, I felt it made sense to sell complete collections of my TV review series rather than individual review posts. The review collections are available to purchase for $12 each, or $10 for the shorter ones. My fiction collections — Troubleshooters, Arachne Universe, and General Fiction — are $18 each, and include access to annotations from the Behind the Scenes tier and artwork from the Tip Jar tier as well as the stories. This is quite a discount compared to buying the stories individually, but comparable to the price of a story collection, so it seemed reasonable. (It didn’t make sense to offer annotations individually if I couldn’t go below $3, particularly since the annotations for the Patreon stories collected in Aleyara’s Descent and Other Stories are now available for free here on Written Worlds.)

Of course, a fair number of the stories on Patreon are now available in my print collections, but if someone’s curious about the collections, maybe they could buy a story there to see if they’re interested enough to buy the whole books. And the majority of the stories are still exclusive to Patreon (at least for now), as are my review series.

Unfortunately, Apple’s iOS app has set things up in a way that they charge a fee of about 45% extra if you buy through that rather than through other means like PayPal, and it seems that’s the only way to buy outside the US at the current time. Sorry about that.

Incidentally, Patreon has recently updated its software so that you can now offer the early part of a post as a free preview, so when I edited my fiction posts to add sale prices, I also moved down the “Paid access starts here” bar to give readers a little taste of the stories, which hopefully might spark a few sales.