I am considering doing a thing.: seanan

I am considering doing a thing.

So here's the thing:

I am writing a lot of stories set in the history of the Price-Healy family, slowly pushing my way toward the modern day. There are also stories set in the present day, such as the Antimony-centric novella, "Bad Dream Girl," which is going to appear in the anthology Glitter and Mayhem. A lot of these get given away for free on my website, in a variety of formats, with covers and everything. I like keeping the canon centralized.

That said, unless an anthology is commissioning something, it can be hard to carve out the time for what is essentially unpaid work. I need to prioritize my time according to what I'm getting paid for (which is why, for example, the rate of "Velveteen vs." stories went up so sharply when I got a print contract). So...

How would people feel if I opened a "tip jar," with the understanding that for every X amount of dollars, I would add a story in one of my universes to the master list of Paid For Things? Those stories would still have to fit around everything else, but it would make them easier to schedule, and would also make my lights easier to keep on. The stories themselves would remain free on my website, so if you didn't want to donate, you could just stand back and wait for nature to take its course.

Thoughts?

anna_en_route

March 11 2013, 23:52:50 UTC 4 years ago

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I would feel very good about that indeed, provided it wouldn't put too much pressure on you (and that people avoid acting like entitled a-holes). You've given us an awful lot of free entertainment and it would be nice to be able to contribute something towards it.
I'd also be willing to tip for a page with an ordered list of links to the Sparrow Hill road stories (apologies if this exists and I just missed it)

alicetheowl

March 12 2013, 01:22:27 UTC 4 years ago

It's coming out in the summer of 2014 from DAW, and so The Edge of Propinquity has taken down all but the first chapter. Tips will have to be in the form of buying the book.

(My source.)

March 12 2013, 02:52:49 UTC 4 years ago

Ahhh=) cool, that makes sense.
I should note that I did actually manage to find all the stories, it just took a lot of guessing about web addresses, the stories are not easy to get to but they are still there....

I hope the new book comes out for my geographical region at some point

seanan_mcguire

March 12 2013, 03:10:26 UTC 4 years ago

They are? I will have them removed immediately. Thank you.

March 12 2013, 04:18:53 UTC 4 years ago

Well it was a few months ago, maybe they've been taken down completely since?

March 12 2013, 03:26:59 UTC 4 years ago

I read them all, too, back before it was picked up for publication. I'm looking forward to the book. :)

March 12 2013, 03:27:45 UTC 4 years ago

They are not there anymore, thanks to fast-moving administrators.

March 12 2013, 03:29:52 UTC 4 years ago

Oh, good. I'd saved a bookmark before the announcement, and I deleted it when you announced it was going away. It hadn't even occurred to me to check.

March 12 2013, 03:23:06 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you.

I've contacted the administrator at TEoP and asked them to take down those stories; they were restored by a server backup. I would REALLY appreciate it if you would delete any local copies you may have saved. Those are no longer canonical, and I'm not comfortable with the fact that they got re-posted and were found.

March 12 2013, 18:32:28 UTC 4 years ago

No worries =) (and no local copies either).

Sorry to have caused you discomfort.

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