The story isn't about me. It's about you.

whatever medium you can think of, I like weaving a yarn. People tell me they enjoy it when I do. They also tell me to do more of it.

Ay, as Hamlet says, there's the rub.

I have a day job. Well, two. They pay the bills, and that's a good thing, which I am grateful for and don't (well, hardly ever) take for granted. I'd like, however, to tell more stories, and to do that, I need ways to keep the day jobs from overrunning the storytelling time. This is one of them.

I have three published books, and two collections of shorts coming out this fall (2015). As the publishing industry goes through its convulsions, however, new opportunities present themselves, and one of those is the return of the patron model of creative work. Patreon is, I believe, the most innovative and forward-looking company in the patron space, and that's why I'm here. I hope it's why you're here, too.

It's not exactly a new thing. Up until the arrival of mass-market paperbacks, everyone published this way. A Tale of Two Cities was a subscription novel, paid for prior to publication (and even prior to writing) by those who wanted to have Dickens' latest novel in their hands. Composers have long worked this way; Wolfgang Mozart sat in the court of Joseph II in Vienna and wrote stuff for him, because he was getting paid to do so. It was a feather in Joseph's cap.

As I propose to be a feather in yours. No, really. As a patron, as my patron, you'll get stories no one else gets. You'll have access no one else does. You will be able to read the stories before anyone else, to discuss them, even to affect what I write and how I write it. You call the tune; I dance. After all, you're the patron.