UPDATES: When They Wear the Mask & Patreon!
Today we sing the future-song, the hymn of what-is-to-come.
(tl,dr: When They Wear the Mask Cover Reveal
When They Wear the Mask Launch Dates
Official Patreon Page Announcement)
Hear the first verse lilting through your bones:
Yes! Check out this killer cover-art designed by the phenomenal Patrick Tsao, creator of the Half-Man webcomic.
A fun detail: the cover, itself, is something of a spoiler. It’s drawn directly from a scene wherein…
Well. We’ll save that dark discovery for later.
In the meantime, feast your eyes on this cryptic work of dark art.
When They Wear the Mask Launch DatesThe second whale-hum attunes us!
Hear: the first chapters of When They Wear the Mask are upon us! Do we know fear…or excitement? Maybe a little bit of both?
(As the author, I mostly know the Fear.)
When They Wear the Mask will release on my site on Monday, April 19th, 2021.
It will release on RoyalRoad and Wattpad shortly afterwards.
If you’d like to skip on ahead to the next note in today’s gibbering chorus, you can become a Patreon patron and start reading it on Friday, April 9th, 2021. In fact, one of the key bonuses to becoming a Patreon patron is getting early access to all serial fiction. So for Patreon patrons, When They Wear the Mask will actually release on Friday, April 9th, 2021.
Speaking of which…
…is today!
(As the third fluting pipes through our innards.)
A few people have picked up the link on their own (sorry and also thank you) but I haven’t been particularly active on the platform because…I hadn’t planned to go public with it until…uh…today.
Yes, today! At this very moment! (Or, depending on when you read this, at a moment in the far distant past.)
Patreon represents a very important opportunity for me (and, by extension, my writing).
The business I ran as part of supporting my writing career went under during the pandemic and my income has drastically changed over the past year. I moved back to my home town to avoid a second stint of homelessness in NYC, but things have not gone particularly well since my return. Near the barrel-bottom of my life savings, I’m extremely uncertain what happens next. Writing has been my major passion for twenty years but the pay is painfully low (even when working with a publisher) and I’m doubtful I’ll be able to make quite as much money—or, more importantly, have anywhere near the control I used to have over my working/writing/living schedule—working at a business I do not run myself.
Any Patreon subscription represents, to me, an inch more breathing room in which to write. It represents an hour more time that I can spend writing instead of desperately scraping things together and re-tabulating my budget for its hundredth iteration.
So, yes, I would appreciate very much if you would be so kind as to subscribe to my lunacy.
Become a Patron!…the transmission has ended for now…The static-shriek lullaby has drifted back to silence, squidlings.
But beware: the future remains unknown.
With great love and squelching ululation,
S. R. Hughes
