State of the Patreon

Promised y'all a status update on Patreon stuff, here we go!

So, as is, I'm pretty happy with this Patreon. I love writing short stories, this Patreon keeps me writing them, thumbs up all around! Got the first Mage Errant anthology coming out here in a couple weeks, which I may have mentioned a time or three.

I'm also well into the next anthology, which is going to be full of stories from across the Aetheriad. (Organized by world.) Currently at about 60k words, planning the anthology for 90-100k, probably. I'm planning for this to be an anthology series, too- with lots more volumes to come. (Right now, I'm leaning towards having one main anthology per series, with further stories in the anthology series- with a couple planned exceptions.)

One of those planned exceptions? A short anthology following the future of the Young Warlocks from Mage Errant! That's right, you heard it here first, folks! Y'all are going to be getting Young Warlock stories here sooner or later!

That said, I am considering some big changes for the Patreon in the future. No matter what, there's always going to be a $1 short story level- that's the basic promise of the Patreon, after all. One change I've considered is releasing a second something every month at some new level. One possibility is serializing early drafts of my eventual nonfiction worldbuilding guide, but that's still a ways off.

I've also been looking heavily at doing a webserial for my next project after More Gods Than Stars. It's an interesting business model, and I love any idea that makes me less reliant on Amazon. If I end up going this route- Patreon>Royal Road>Amazon, I'm not sure whether I'd serialize the story on this Patreon or start another specifically for that one- I'm leaning towards the latter, but not by much. (Two Patreons sounds a bit annoying to juggle, but to do it properly here would require a LOT of reshuffling of the current tiers- I prefer the "special thanks" tier to be the highest tier on this Patreon, and I don't want to jerk that rug out from under current $5 patrons. I'm also not planning to stay with the webserial model forever if I do it, so I'd likely shut that other Patreon down once the other webserial was done. 

Most of this is all pretty tentative- I haven't settled on my plans for anything aside from the Young Warlocks stories and the multiversal anthology series, and I'd love to hear y'alls thoughts on the future of the Patreon!

But yeah, always going to keep the $1 short stories, don't worry about that!