I know you’re past this now, but would you ever consider something like the Patreon? Is that something that you would’ve done ten years ago, if it existed?
Yeah, I might have… Patreon is kind of a hard thing, because I think Patreon is much better for people who are doing something that may be not as market-friendly, but which a group thinks is very important and should be rewarded. There are certain authors I know whose work is very important to the field, like Nora Jemison. Nora’s work is really important, and it’s really good, but… and it’s sold pretty well, but I think that the idea of “(???) have to be market-friendly” is really terrifying to Nora… maybe not terrifying, I don’t think anything terrifies Nora. But you know, it’s that she doesn’t want to be beholden to that, and so her setting up a Patreon said, “look, I’m just gonna write this stuff, I don’t even have to worry about the market”, is really good use of Patreon. We set one up for Writing Excuses, and then we use the money to pay our guests, and to fly people in and stuff like that. I don’t need one because what I write naturally does very well in the market and so there’s no need or worry for me to do that. If all writing shifted in that direction I’d be fine with it, but for right now what’s working here with me is working just fine…
Yeah, the traditional model for publishing really serves you…
Yeah. The traditional model works very well when you’re someone like me. My plots and my stories and things just connect very well with a large segment of the population. (pauses) It’s also why I don’t do a lot on Kickstarter, like I think Kickstarter’s- like we did, we let people making this one board game - which, by the way, Mistborn Board Game, yeah, you guys kickstarted that very well - I let them Kickstart that, they’re like a small company that makes the board game, and I said, “you can make the board game, but you have to get a really good designer, because I can’t micromanage making a board game”, and so they get it, and that’s somebody very expensive, and then they Kickstarted, you guys supported that. I think that’s a good use of Kickstarter for someone like me, but Kickstarter ain’t just something of my own, I’d rather Kickstarter be used by people who maybe need it a bit more, so I’ve stayed away from doing this thing for now.
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