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osprey_archerFor a while I’ve been toying with the idea of posting an ongoing serial on Patreon, but I’ve held back because I’m just not sure that I could write a story without being able to go back and edit earlier parts. (I mean, it worked for Reciprocity, but let’s be real: Reciprocity was a miracle.)
But then! Inspiration struck! I’ve got a couple of novels that are simply gathering dust on my hard drive, neither of which seem likely to garner a big audience if self-pubbed on Amazon, but both of which (IMO) are very characteristic of me and therefore just the sort of thing Patreon backers would like.
The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball is a middle-grade fantasy novel about two girl who become friends through the magic of time travel, or rather time shenanigans: they each end up living their friendship in a different order. There are magical adventures, like on Halloween when they gain the ability to bounce through the night as if the ground were a bouncy house, and much discussion of candy and books and the unfair fact that no one calls boys “bossy,” as well as discussions of history. When Rosie meets Piper, she is very relieved to hear that the future has not been laid waste by nuclear bombs.
The other, Sage, is realistic fiction teen novel about a quartet of nerdy book-loving girls and their senior year of high school and the difficulty of negotiating friendships while also reckoning with the fact that college is going to split your friend group to the four winds.
I’m planning to start posting The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball on my Patreon this month, on the fifteenth, and post a chapter on the fifteenth of every month thereafter until the book is over. Each chapter will be available to all patrons, and $5+ patrons would also get an ebook version of the whole novel once the serial is complete.
But then! Inspiration struck! I’ve got a couple of novels that are simply gathering dust on my hard drive, neither of which seem likely to garner a big audience if self-pubbed on Amazon, but both of which (IMO) are very characteristic of me and therefore just the sort of thing Patreon backers would like.
The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball is a middle-grade fantasy novel about two girl who become friends through the magic of time travel, or rather time shenanigans: they each end up living their friendship in a different order. There are magical adventures, like on Halloween when they gain the ability to bounce through the night as if the ground were a bouncy house, and much discussion of candy and books and the unfair fact that no one calls boys “bossy,” as well as discussions of history. When Rosie meets Piper, she is very relieved to hear that the future has not been laid waste by nuclear bombs.
The other, Sage, is realistic fiction teen novel about a quartet of nerdy book-loving girls and their senior year of high school and the difficulty of negotiating friendships while also reckoning with the fact that college is going to split your friend group to the four winds.
I’m planning to start posting The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball on my Patreon this month, on the fifteenth, and post a chapter on the fifteenth of every month thereafter until the book is over. Each chapter will be available to all patrons, and $5+ patrons would also get an ebook version of the whole novel once the serial is complete.
