What’s it Like to Be a Creator on Patreon? My First Month

I’ve never crowdfunded anything before now, though not for lack of thinking about it. I have contractual obligations on everything novel length at this point, and with Tor’s new novella imprint paying so much for novellas, it didn’t make much sense to crowdfund them. So I looked at the type of fiction that generally pays the least no matter how I try to publish it – short fiction.

Oh, short fiction, you are great, but $100 does not cover the 20-40 hours it takes to make you.

I’m not a fan of...