Not today, but next Sunday. Am I excited? Hell yes! This will be my seventeenth consecutive year of writing one or two books in November, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). According to the NaNoWriMo website, over the past sixteen years, I've completed a total of 24 projects and 1,862,052 words. I calculate over twice that number of completed projects when I include non-NaNoWriMo months of writing. Heck, last year alone, I wrote 1,141,946 words. I've been a little off that pace this year, but still managed to produce a lot of books. (I currently have 57 stories on SOL under three author names.)
What that also means is that it's pledge week. You know, like public radio? Except this is money that goes in my pocket to pay for my websites, printing, and providing ALL my books for online reading at no charge. They are available both here on SOL and on my personal websites. All thanks to my aroslav patrons on Patreon.
The benefit to me is obvious, but what's in it for you? I have two major tiers of patronage. At $5 per month, you get everything I release before I release it anywhere else. That includes new eBooks as well as online serials. Patrons are currently reading my new work, Pussy Pirates, a story in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle Universe. Everyone will get it here as well, starting November 3.
Next Sunday, patrons at this level will begin reading Liam's Place At the Table, the vastly rewritten and improved version of Wayzgoose's American Royalty 1: Coming of Age. In the meantime, I'm putting out new versions of some of my older stories, like The Art and Science of Love, all of which will be released here, but will go to patrons first.
At the $10 per month level, you get to watch me making sausage. The Sausage Grinder tier gets to read everything new I'm writing, as I write it-raw and unedited. Believe me, November is a big month for these folks. I've already begun writing a new Swarm story, tentatively titled The Assassin. I have eleven chapters written on this story so far focused on concubines who join the planetary militia. The colony will also deal with a surge in concubines as they take refugees from Earth and unhomed concubines whose sponsors have been killed in battle.
Starting Sunday, I'll have a new NaNoWriMo story starting with nearly daily posts. This one is called It Ain't Immortality, But…
Theo is a septuagenarian with a heart problem. He is invited to take part in an experimental program that will reset his cellular age to his mid-thirties. He'll still be an old man. He'll still look like an old man. But he'll have the energy and vigor he had as a young man. With this new lease on life, Theo needs to decide what to do with his next twenty years.
He decides to take up photography and try to really get to know his subjects. He talks to each person he photographs on his journey and learns their story. Usually, this involves sharing food or drink and listening while the person entertains him with some important aspect of his or her life. The book will be Theo finding, photographing, and listening to the stories of the people he meets.
Chapters will be coming on a near daily basis for my Sausage Grinder patrons as I write during November. They get it raw and unedited, often giving me advice as to where the story should go next! Of course, Sausage Grinders also get all the new works the Advance Release tier gets.
So, there is my annual pledge drive promotion. Join me and get the latest and greatest from your favorite author! -aroslav (aka Wayzgoose or J-Hop)