How This is Going to Work
Okay, so, I initially planned to release the whole novel on patreon at once, but my partner correctly pointed out that patreon is an ongoing subscription. Dreams of Sapphos—beyond Part I, which you can find here on the website for free—will be uploaded a chapter at a time every two weeks. I considered monthly, but the rest of the book is 26 chapters and a little over two years is too long of a release schedule—longer if you factor in short stories.
That will buy time for me to write more short stories and get to work on book two. Does that mean book two will continue seamlessly from the end of Dreams of Sapphos? No, absolutely not. And it's perfectly okay to unsubscribe during the wait. As I write this it occurs to me that a monthly release schedule would probably enable me to have book two ready by the end of book one, but again, I just don't wanna do it that way.
There’s also the fact that, the more I think about it, the more I believe Dreams of Sapphos would work really well doing an initial release as a bi-monthly serial. It just fits the way its written more. You can see my post Welcome All for me details on that.
So that's the way it's gonna work. Read Part I for free on the website, then subscribe for a new chapter every two weeks. Short stories will have a less structured release. There's a bunch that take place between the first two books and will be released as such, others will just be released when they're in a decent enough state or I feel like it would be a good time. World guide entries will be posted whenever too. But be warned: they're as behind-the-scenes as it gets. Unedited, often just notes depending on what it is, and raw ideas that may or may not make it into the stories. They're the most likely to be in flux as they'll be added to and tweaked as long as new stories set in Orbis are written.
This is also a good place to drop a small disclaimer:
I’m an indie author, and the work posted here and on patreon represents a work in progress. Writing a book is a long and costly process, so I ask that you bare with me. I’ll only post works that are more or less feature complete, but everything is open to edits and tweaks right up until physical publication.
And I do want to publish physically at some point in the future. I love holding a book in my hands and am a firm believer in removing the power of corporations to monopolize everything in a digital-only, subscription-based hellscape. Which seems like a weird thing to say considering I'm locking my stories behind a digital subscription... But self-publishing is expensive and I'm not a mega-corporation—or even a regional family business. But if all goes well and I can realize my dream of making a semi-decent living as an author and creative, I'll publish everything that gets posted on patreon in physical form for you to treasure or trash, share around at book groups or sell on the second hand market, donate to your local library or an indie book shop.
Not to feed into A.I., though. Fuck A.I.
Thank you all for reading this overly long rundown of the workings of my patreon going forward. I'm not much of a blogger, so updates might be sparse and poorly constructed. I'll do my best to remedy that. And if you want less structured nonsense from me, check out my bsky.