07-16-2025, 09:50 PM
(07-16-2025, 09:39 PM)UltraBudgie Wrote: I read a couple of fantasy/scifi authors regularly and many of them now have Patreon accounts where you can read their next books chapter-by-chapter as they write them.
Some are $1 or $2 a month, I think the most expensive one I subscribe to is $5 a month. And it all goes to the author!
Well worth it.
Anyway it is very interesting that it is a new experience. Each chapter thread they release has a comment section, and the other fans will chat with the author, ask questions, point out rough spots, etc. It is interactive!
It is almost like stories around a campfire with friends.
Anyway what the authors do is after they've finished, they do an edit pass and then put the book up on Amazon or to another publisher. Some of the Patreons I've subscribed to because I didn't want to wait for the next book in a series!
It is great fun and innovative and I like that it bypasses the gatekeeping publishing houses, which frankly have gotten rather annoyingly biased in the last few decades. They are still operating like they have a lock on the distribution channel like with paperback book stores back in the 1900s. And just look at the fiction books on Goodreads for example and you can see much social bias, sadly. So new technology FTW!
That sounds like an interesting (and free) approach to writing stories as a means of revenue.
3rd Parties usually suck.... and more than half of that world is ruled by 3rd parties.
