Shipping later this month to qualifying supporters on Patreon will be an exclusive short story collection, Patreon Stories: Volume One, and here are my first photos of the signed trade paperback edition! I’ll post photos of the signed Limited Edition hardcover as soon as I have those, too.
Please visit my Patreon page to learn about the different rewards I’m publishing exclusively for my supporters. I’d love to see you there!
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!
This was one of the original stories I wrote just for Walking With Ghosts, but I also ended up sending it to Lilja for his Shining in the Dark anthology because I couldn’t say “no” to being part of that line-up and I had nothing else ready. The story has now been translated into 6 or 7 languages for other markets thanks to Lilja’s anthology, and seeing your name and story in another language never gets old (at least to me!).
“A Mother’s Love” can be read over on Patreon where readers can access more than a dozen of my stories immediately for a pledge of just $1 or more.
Please visit my Patreon page to learn about the different rewards I’m publishing exclusively for my supporters. I’d love to see you there!
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!
“The Temperament of an Artist” is an extremely early story of mine, written in middle school and sent out on submission without any revisions because I was a young idiot who just couldn’t wait to mail a new story to the editors I found in the Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Sigh. I still owe a lot of them apology letters for sending them so many bad stories those summers when school was out.
Most of what I published in the 1990s is dead and buried in a folder on my computer for good reason, but at the time I was just having fun and trying to sell short stories like my literary heroes.
“The Temperament of an Artist” was the second story of mine to see print, published in a little paper zine in 1995 that doesn’t even seem to have existed if you search the web for information now.
I revised the manuscript a few times in high school and college, but still, I was surprised to like this one as much as I did when I opened the dreaded “old stuff” folder while considering the contents for Walking With Ghosts.
It’s not great, but it’s kind of fun, I think. Especially if you put yourself into the head of the wildly optimistic thirteen-year-old kid who wrote it while believing his work could set the world aflame.
“The Temperament of an Artist” can be read over on Patreon where readers can access more than a dozen of my stories immediately for a pledge of just $1 or more.
Please visit my Patreon page to learn about the different rewards I’m publishing exclusively for my supporters. I’d love to see you there!
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!
As promised when I launched my page on Patreon one year ago this week, I’ll never be super pushy to try to convince you to sign-up. That’s just not my style. And besides, I think we’ll both be happier if my supporters really want to be there in the first place.
That said, my first year on Patreon has truly opened my eyes to how much I can accomplish and how much further I can take my work with the help of a small group of enthusiastic supporters.
Thanks to those supporters, I have written more new short stories in the last year than ever before, I’m working on new special editions and revised editions of past books, I’m preparing TWO novels for publication in 2019 (and they might be serialized on Patreon first), and I’m even publishing fun exclusive items like a brand new novel told via a chapbook series just for my supporters and even a one-time only Limited Edition called Patreon Stories: Volume One, which I will print in August for qualifying supporters and which will NEVER be reprinted or offered again in any form or fashion:
In fact, if you sign up to support me on Patreon at a qualifying level by August 31, you CAN still qualify for either the signed trade paperback or signed Limited Edition hardcover of Patreon Stories: Volume One, which will ship next month!
In the future, only supporters who have been at the qualifying rewards levels for six months will receive the exclusive “never-to-be-reprinted” books, but I waived that this year since we’re all still learning about how Patreon and the rewards work.
So this really is your chance to get in on the ground floor of something I plan on doing for many years to come.
FUTURE PLANS & HOW MY SUPPORTERS MAKE THEM REALITY:
I’m especially pleased to report my writing plans have completely changed thanks to my experiences with my supporters on Patreon.
For example, the next two books I’ll be writing in 2019 and 2020 are books I’ve had on my mental back burner (one of them since 2006 or so!) because the idea of finding a publisher for them is painfully unrealistic. I have to admit, thanks to some bad advice early on in my career, I’ve spent too much time trying to write novels that New York publishing companies might embrace. That was a mistake and I’ve finally learned from it. Only took me [counts on fingers] 25 years! (YIKES!)
Simply put, big publishers don’t buy stories like the ones living inside my head, demanding to be put on paper. Yet these are the stories I want to be writing and, thanks to my supporters on Patreon, I can write them without having to kick myself every day over why I’m not doing something “more productive” to pay the bills and keep the lights on and feed my family.
Thanks to my supporters on Patreon, these books I want to write will be written AND I will keep the lights on, pay my bills, and feed my family at the same time. I literally couldn’t do all of this without their help.
Also, for the record, I do think readers who already like my work will really like these new books, so it’ll be a win-win for all of us.
Here’s A Modest Request:
Please consider supporting my work on Patreon at whatever level you feel comfortable with; your support really will be appreciated and it will help me push my work even further along than I ever thought possible.
You can read more on Patreon or you can read more about the different rewards on this special page on my website and you’ll be able to see a few examples of what I’ve done so far for my supporters.
ALSO: THERE’S NO OBLIGATION:
Please know, if you change your mind after a month or two and want to cancel your support, it’s no big deal! You can modify your support or cancel at any time.
Finances change, interests change, real life happens, stuff comes up; trust me, I completely understand! There will be no hard feelings or annoying “please come back” sales pitches thrown in your face.
Even if you just give supporting my work a try for a month or two, I would really love to see you over there.
Thank you again to everyone for all of your support and encouragement over the years. In the end, you’re the battery cells that makes it possible to get the work done. Thank you!
Best,
Brian
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a reminder about my short stories on Patreon, but since the last update I’ve posted “The Gorman Gig” and “One Way Flight” for my supporters to read!
As a special bonus, I’m also including the first draft of my “Story Notes” that will appear in Walking With Ghosts.
Patrons can read these stories immediately — and so can you for a pledge of just $1 or more.
Please visit my Patreon page to learn about the different rewards I’m publishing exclusively for my supporters. I’d love to see you there!
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a reminder about my short stories on Patreon, but since the last update I’ve posted “What They Left Behind,” “Among Us,” and “The Final Lesson.”
As a special bonus, I’m also including the first draft of my “Story Notes” that will appear in my first full-length collection later this year.
Patrons can read these stories immediately — and so can you for a pledge of just $1 or more.
Please visit my Patreon page to learn about the different rewards I’m publishing exclusively for my supporters. I’d love to see you there!
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!
One Candle Against the Night is a novel I’ve been thinking about for a very long time, so the challenge of writing and publishing the story as a serial chapbook series for my supporters on Patreon seemed like the perfect way to make sure this book finally gets written.
The first installment is “One Candle Against the Night: The River Town” and it was published last month as an exclusive chapbook for my Patreon supporters at the $5 or higher Rewards Levels.
Each chapbook is “housed” in a custom-printed envelope with a fine linen finish and my private press logo printed on it in silver metallic ink. To make these chapbooks a little different from others I’ve seen, the “endpapers” (the inside-covers) feature a printed “faux marble” artwork design. Each chapbook is also signed and hand-numbered.
Here are some photos of how “The River Town” chapbook turned out:
I’ve posted my short story “Answering the Call” for my supporters over at Patreon! As a special bonus, I’m also including the first draft of my “Story Notes” that will appear in my first full-length collection later this year.
Patrons can read the story immediately — and so can you for a pledge of just $1 or more!
Please visit my Patreon page to learn about the different rewards I’m publishing exclusively for my supporters. I’d love to see you there!
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!
I forgot to mention I posted my short story “Running Rain” for my supporters over at Patreon in January.
Patrons can read the story immediately — and so can you for a pledge of just $1 or more.
Please visit my Patreon page to learn about the different rewards I’m publishing exclusively for my supporters. I’d love to see you there!
Thank you, as always, for your continuing support!
Given how hectic this time of year is, I thought I’d better post a reminder that TODAY is your very last day to sign-up over at my Patreon page to qualify for some of the BIG REWARDS that launch in January!
This includes your very last chance to qualify for “One Candle Against the Night: The River Town,” an exclusive chapbook for my supporters at the $5 or higher Rewards Levels.
If you haven’t checked out the rewards I’m offering on my Patreon page I hope you’ll swing by right now. I’d love to see you there!
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