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Going Full-Time on Patreon
5 years ago
Hey everyone,
I can't begin to express my warmest and deepest gratitude for those who supported my Patreon in spite of the financial hardships many of us are facing right now with COVID-19. It's been surreal. As a story writer that doesn't have much art associated with my work, I honestly did not expect the extent of support I've received on that platform. In a way, it's overwhelming, but the good kind of overwhelming.
This leads me to an important announcement I'd like to make. I will be going full-time on Patreon. What does this mean?
I've been writing AB/DL and babyfur fiction for over a decade. The vast majority of my work has been free. I've kept it free because it was important for me to garner readership. I believed that no one, in the right mind, would spend any money to read my work. So what changed between then and now?
After spending years writing and reading other author's work, I realized that I spent more time on submissions than most authors did. Friends and readers noticed. They would occasionally urge me to monetize my work since I was writing stories with lasting appeal. They weren't the one-and-done erotic fiction pieces that I was doing with Lion Stories. These stories not only had the potential of world building, they could also serve as a foundation for endless artistic possibilities. Then Patreon came along. Since a lot of my creative fuzzy friends were doing, I thought, "Why not?" After about a year of curating content on Patreon and setting up a gateway for people to support me for as little as $5/month, I was able to develop a brand that people liked enough to invest into. And when economic opportunities dried up due to COVID-19, my readers stepped up in a big way and encouraged me to keep moving in that direction. I was so encouraged by the outpouring of support, I decided to reverse my original plans to step aside from CrinkleCat this year.
If you like my free stories, I strongly encourage chipping in the price of a cup of coffee monthly to read the best I have to offer. Thanks to the support I'm receiving, there will be Patreon-exclusive art coming this summer, and I cannot wait to show you!
That said, I'm not going to walk away from writing free stories entirely, but unless the stories are commissions meant for public consumption, I won't be publishing as many stories on FA as I used to.
Thank you for understanding! See you on Patreon!
I can't begin to express my warmest and deepest gratitude for those who supported my Patreon in spite of the financial hardships many of us are facing right now with COVID-19. It's been surreal. As a story writer that doesn't have much art associated with my work, I honestly did not expect the extent of support I've received on that platform. In a way, it's overwhelming, but the good kind of overwhelming.
This leads me to an important announcement I'd like to make. I will be going full-time on Patreon. What does this mean?
I've been writing AB/DL and babyfur fiction for over a decade. The vast majority of my work has been free. I've kept it free because it was important for me to garner readership. I believed that no one, in the right mind, would spend any money to read my work. So what changed between then and now?
After spending years writing and reading other author's work, I realized that I spent more time on submissions than most authors did. Friends and readers noticed. They would occasionally urge me to monetize my work since I was writing stories with lasting appeal. They weren't the one-and-done erotic fiction pieces that I was doing with Lion Stories. These stories not only had the potential of world building, they could also serve as a foundation for endless artistic possibilities. Then Patreon came along. Since a lot of my creative fuzzy friends were doing, I thought, "Why not?" After about a year of curating content on Patreon and setting up a gateway for people to support me for as little as $5/month, I was able to develop a brand that people liked enough to invest into. And when economic opportunities dried up due to COVID-19, my readers stepped up in a big way and encouraged me to keep moving in that direction. I was so encouraged by the outpouring of support, I decided to reverse my original plans to step aside from CrinkleCat this year.
If you like my free stories, I strongly encourage chipping in the price of a cup of coffee monthly to read the best I have to offer. Thanks to the support I'm receiving, there will be Patreon-exclusive art coming this summer, and I cannot wait to show you!
That said, I'm not going to walk away from writing free stories entirely, but unless the stories are commissions meant for public consumption, I won't be publishing as many stories on FA as I used to.
Thank you for understanding! See you on Patreon!
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