Important Announcement: Patreon is now up, and other things

Hello everyone. I wanted to let you all know that after much research and some frustration, I finally launched my very own Patreon page. I put the link in my profile along with a link to my previously created Ko-Fi account.

I am going to be charging on a per creation basis, so per chapter/new story. Technically, a monthly setup would be better for me, financially speaking, but as my long time readers will know, I've never been able to stick to a monthly release schedule for this story, and I'm not sure I'd be able to do it now. I have a hard enough time trying to get this pathetic, poorly wired brain of mine to work as is. If I can't stick to a monthly release schedule, it wouldn't be fair to you guys to charge on a monthly basis, so I went for per-creation.

Now if you don't know how Patreon works these days, let me explain what I myself have learned, both to help those that want to donate through it, and those that may wish to use it themselves.

How Patreon Works Now, an Overview
In May of 2019, Patreon changed it's policies so it now offers three "products", three different types of creator pages you can make with varying levels of tools. These are Lite, Pro, and Premium. Besides the tools available, the percentage of what they take of your earnings is different. For Lite, Patreon takes 5%, Pro takes 8%, and Premium takes 12%. There's also a difference in some additional charges for payment processing, but I can't remember that off the top of my head.

I'll be honest with you guys, originally, I'd intended to start with Lite, since I'd keep the most money, and if things worked out well, I'd switch to Pro. Unfortunately, that didn't work out. See, here's the first basic difference between Lite and Pro: With Lite, you can't create those tiers you see on so many other pages. That didn't bother me all that much when I was making my plans, but there was another difference I didn't know about. Lite DOES NOT allow you to charge per creation.

Because of this, I was forced to use Pro in order to be fair to all of you. I can't say I'm happy about it, and I am eternally slamming my skull into a wall for not creating a Patreon page in May before the change over because any account/creator page created before then is classified as a "Founder's account," and can use Pro with a 5% rate instead of 8% (Since before the introduction of the Lite/Pro/Premium system, Patreon just took 5%).

Moving Forward
Please check it out and consider becoming a patron. Or, if you still aren't comfortable with sending money through Patreon, you can also try Ko-Fi. Unlike Patreon, Ko-Fi does NOT take anything, so I would receive 100% of everything you guys would donate to me through there. It's one of the reasons I set up an account on both sites. With the standard account, you also can donate whenever you want with no obligation for recurring payments, though donations are set to intervals of three by default, so $3 minimum.

Technically, there is a way to change those intervals to whatever you want, but that requires Ko-Fi Gold, which is like $6 a month, I believe, and can allow you to set up monthly donations. I may go to Ko-Fi Gold as well, depending on how things go.

If you like my work, wish to see more, or if you want to thank me for the years of work, twenty-one chapters, and estimated 173, 701 words I have already written in MLP fanfiction for free, please consider donating.

I'm also posting a new, and short, prologue for A Tale of Two Suns Book 2 today, which will be out very shortly. My reasons for why will be in the author's note, and many of you reading this may have already seen it, as I will be providing a link to this post in that note. I didn't feel comfortable waiting until I had finished chapter 3 to post it and thereby double charge my potential patrons, so I'm adding it now.

Thank you