Pursuant to my posts this morning, I think I'm going to start sharing my novel in chunks with Patrons starting this week. This SF novel, inspired by The Peloponnesian War, tackles rising nationalism, war propaganda, & historical revisionism while imagining how to build a better society. It's been burning in me amid our war-torn world, & if trad pubs don't see this as relevant or marketable, they're out to lunch.
Grumpy ML is going to start sharing this story weekly with Patrons.
Sharing it that way does not preclude a later traditionally published version does it?
It seems a low risk way to build an audience, and get your name known, which is probably valuable.
Not in pieces! The format of a work significantly impacts our complex relationship to first publication rights. I have to mail short stories to interested Patrons *off* Patreon, because they're complete works, but a serialized novel "draft" can still be sold to a publisher for first full-text publication.
This will ideally help me grow the Patreon account, too. π€π»