September Patreon Update

I imagine most of you saw the other post, but I'll reiterate it anyway. Given my inactivity, next month is free of charge for existing patrons. More on this later.

The update itself is fairly brief.

• Demon's Throne 2 is finally entering the home stretch. It's longer than I intended. It'll be out in October, but final date will depend on when I send it out for beta reading.
• Demon's Throne 3 will be the next book, and basically continues on after DT2. I'll worry about what book comes after it once I get there.
• Audio for Heretic Spellblade 3 should be out before the end of the year, but I don't have a firm date yet.
• Circumstances mean that I need to change cover artist for Heretic Spellblade. In fact, I already found a new artist (and Demon's Throne got one months ago). I did a Messenger-level poll that gave me some surprising character results, and gave me some confidence to do a different cover for HS4.
• Going forward, I intend to make sure that I have all of my covers in order early. This ended up being a stressful situation and I was fortunate that the artist I wanted was available early (some can take a while). I already have the cover for HS4, and just need to determine what characters go on the last 2 covers.

Anyway, with that out of the way, let's talk about Patreon. Again.

I'll also keep this fairly brief, although I'll talk a little more about some of my Patreon misgivings.

The first one is simple: I dislike how easily Patreon can become a way to take money from people while giving little (or nothing) back. That's why next month is free, because it seems fair to me.

The second problem is thornier, and relates to the way I write and Patreon itself. I just read a comment about how consistency is key, and I basically agree. I tend to overpromise and underdeliver, which is the opposite of what people want to see. Given I started this mostly as an experiment to do different stuff, and the money isn't that big of a deal, I'll use next month to either get things in order (which means changing something about my approach) or reassess the Patreon as a whole.

If this doesn't work for you, that's fine. I'm a supporter of a bunch of creators across various platforms and I know how this works. There should be enough going up over the next month to make up for this month and to let me assess where I go next.