Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: thoughtful
  • Music: Glee, "Express Yourself."

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?
Tags: contemplation, requesting things
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seanan_mcguire

March 12 2013, 03:09:11 UTC 4 years ago

This would only be to move the InCryptid stories up in the queue. Velveteen, when it happens, will happen after I've had time to properly absorb and prepare the new status quo. That's something I'll have to be really clear about: I'm not saying "give me money and tell me what to write," I'm saying "toss into a general pool and periodically level up to a finished work."

digitaleopard

March 12 2013, 03:32:47 UTC 4 years ago

*laughs* I know, the stories come when they come. I should have been more clear - I meant "Let us know when it's okay to start tossing money for project 'X'." I love the InCryptid stuff, The Vel stories just resonate for me in a special way.

If my comment was a source of cranky, please tell Jen, she can throw stuff at me. Probably not cats, but I can hope.

seanan_mcguire

March 12 2013, 03:33:22 UTC 4 years ago

Nope, no cranky, I just really don't want to set incorrect expectations.