I have official made the decision to begin treating monetization through ebooks as an afterthought and not a main goal. For most completed stories I am still going to release them as ebooks as they reach different readers than the ones that look for free stories. Patreon backers will still get a coupon code to get a free copy when stuff comes out as well, but you should expect less releases going forward.

My hope is that concentrating on making most things permanently public will get me more Patreon backers. But I know this might not happen and I have accepted with as irregular as my output can be because of my health issues this all might become more of a passion project than an attempt to be something I make a semi-living from. Even if there’s where things settle I’m going to keep writing as much as I can and maybe without the pressure to be trying as hard to monetize things I might even be able to work more regularly.

Going forward I won’t be taking things down from free places once they are finished. I MAY take SOME stuff down from here, as I’m not super skilled at even simple web design and things on here are already a little unwieldy on the backend. But stories at Hentai Foundry and Literotica (and anywhere else I end up starting to post things) will now be left up even if that story later gets posted as an ebook.

With that in mind I’ll slowly be reposting old stories to both Literotica and Hentai Foundry. I’m going to do so slowly, but I’ve got a big back catalog of stories to throw up so hopefully there will be a steady drip over the next few months.

I also have a ton of half-finished stories, especially ones set in Alaria. I really do want to be going back and cleaning those up and taking a swing at finishing them. I plan on slowly working in old stories to my story rotation to try and finish them off (and have already started that with continuing the Fall of Almery Keep).

I’m enjoying the less stressful workflow of cycling through poll-driven stories and will continue for now to stick to just those. Anything I pick back up will become a poll driven story even if it WASN’T one. Five stories also seems to be a good number to have in my project queue, and if I try to keep sticking to shorter entries it seems I can, when things are going good, cycle through them all in about a week. So my plan is to keep my active project queue to five stories unless someone picks up one of the two backer driven story slots from Patreon. As stories get finished others will replace them, and I’ll make sure one of them is always an older one.

Since I want to try and shift any monetization attempts more towards Patreon I will be trying to think of ways to make that backing more than just a tip jar (while being realistic about how uneven my output can be). For now I have two plans:

1. As of when I’m posting this there are still the two open backer driven story slots. For those that don’t know this gets you a poll driven story that will be posted publicly like all the rest, except only you get to see/vote in the polls for what happens next.
2. When it comes time for me to choose what project will be replacing a finished one in the project queue I’ll be throwing a poll up to help choose this out that ONLY Patreon backers will get to vote on.

As far as genre of stories I plan to keep it all Fantasy with Alaria stories. Anyone who’s been following me for a few years knows that I hit genre burnout two or three times a years, and based on the that last couple of years I expect late fall to be the next time that might happen. I’d LIKE to keep plugging away at Alaria stories year round, so maybe come spooky season I can try working in a superheroine Halloween project and juggling multiple genres going into winter. If I keep doing just the poll driven stories (or releasing things that aren’t in small chapters) perhaps I’ll be better able to handle mixing genres in the future.