Hello!
It’s time for me to mix things up a bit.
With that said, I’m going to try Patreon. Whoa, whoa, before you panic, I’ll address the important thing first: I’ll still release my stories for free.
You can find me here: https://www.patreon.com/markgraham
What I am going to do is release on Patreon first and two or so weeks later, release out on my personal site as well as the other places I post. So Patreon users will get first view and some users can even view drafts as I write them.
Higher levels will be able to share their thoughts on what they’d like to see in a story as they read the drafts or suggest the next story I write or even enter to win a custom short story.
The levels I plan to use are shown at the end of this post and I’d welcome feedback on it since this is all new to me. I may have to change things as I figure it out but hopefully nothing too drastic.
I hope the balance between early access and releasing for free for everyone is fair and I appreciate your support. Even if you’re not interested in Patreon or early access to stories, the donation keeps me working on non-commissioned stories and is just a pretty cool thing to help with. I know it may be easy to just wait for the free release but I’d ask that you consider supporting artists that create things you enjoy.
Thanks!
$2 “Human”
- Access to stories and general TF/TG posts when they are first published, two weeks before I publish them to my own site and others.
$5 “Bitten”
- Access to stories and general TF/TG posts when they are first published, two weeks before I publish them to my own site and others.
- Access to drafts as I work on a project.
- Users can comment on drafts and make suggestions on characters, the story and more. If I like a suggestion, I may include it in the story.
$10 “Feral Were”
- Access to stories and general TF/TG posts when they are first published, two weeks before I publish them to my own site and others.
- Access to drafts as I work on a project.
- Comment on drafts and make suggestions on characters, the story and more. If I like a suggestion, I may include it in the story.
- When I don’t have a specific story I need to work on, I’ll create a poll for users to choose what I should write next. Whether to continue an older story or create a new one.
$20 “Skinwalker”
- Access to stories and general TF/TG posts when they are first published, two weeks before I publish them to my own site and others.
- Access to drafts as I work on a project.
- Comment on drafts and make suggestions on characters, the story and more. If I like a suggestion, I may include it in the story.
- When I don’t have a specific story I need to work on, I’ll create a poll for users to choose what I should write next. Whether to continue an older story or create a new one.
- Once a month or two, get entered into a knock out drawing for a custom 2,000 word story. Winners get removed until all $20 backers get a story written and then it resets to include everyone again.