$900 Per Month

My Patreon campaign just hit $900 per month!! Many, many thanks to the glorious 240 patrons who have made it happen so far.

It suddenly feels so very do-able - so much so that I've now edited my "self employment" target goal to $1000. It can happen - it will happen ... all it takes is another 100 people to part with a buck a month. Sign up now and make it so! Huzzah!!

Reanimator Part 4 - The Scream of the Dead

Herbert West: Reanimator Part 4 - The Scream of the Dead - now online for $1 and over patrons at my Patreon Creations Page. If you're not a patron yet, get on over and add your dollar a month to the pot. And if you are a patron, be sure and listen right to the end :-)

Artwork by Jon Cape

The Statement of Randolph Carter at Patreon

I've just posted my reading of H.P. Lovecraft's classic horror short story, The Statement of Randolph Carter at Patreon. 

The new MP3 features embedded art by Jon Cape

You already have access to this for free in the December 2014 Sometimes Christmas podcast, but this is another little extra for the fab-mungous men and women who have rallied to the cause at Patreon for $1 and above - a bumper-chat free audiobook-type MP3. You can just load it up onto your phone and listen, with no need to listen to me talking about last Christmas :-)

Click here to go to the post at Patreon and listen / download

The Voyage Resumes! Blood and Smoke 7 at Patreon!

That's right - change of plan. On my last Sometimes podcast, I said I was going to wait until I 300 patrons at Patreon until I resumed the Blood and Smoke podcast. Well, I got impatient. So I had a think about it and realised I was putting the cart before the horse somewhat. Surely the smart thing to do is put the content people want at the site, and then encourage them to sign up to go and get it, right? Right; that's what I thought.

Click this link for Episode 7 at Patreon

So, I recorded an episode. To make the writing and recording more manageable for me, the story content of the podcast isn't as long as the first 6 (which are now also archived at Patreon), but it's quality, not quantity that counts, right? Right; that's what I thought.

The first six episodes are still free, but to get your ears on Episode 7, you have to sign up to become a $1 a month or more patron. In UK Sterling, that's 67p. That's less than a Mars bar a month!!

So go on, do the right thing and help fund me into self-employment. My work is flourishing since I started this Patreon thing, and if we want it to continue, then this Patreon thing must continue to grow. 

And it will, right? Right; that's what I thought :-)

I salute you! 

Man / Woman

Spent hours writing - or rather re-writing - a scene in U&F 4. I had to change a character from a man to a woman. I thought it would be a fairly quick process, but oh no, none of the man's actions or dialogue worked anymore, nor did his partner's reactions to him / her, and so I had to re-do the whole thing - or the whole thing so far, anyway. But it's all good news as the scene is more to my liking now ... which is nice.

Oh yes, and as you may have noticed, I said "his partner". I'm writing police procedure ... which is also nice - and enlightening too.

After the Plague 2

Altogether now, "Urrrrrrr!" "Urrrgghhhhhhhh!" "Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" The undead continue their shamblings in After the Plague Part 2, a second scene from a zombie apocalypse. Now at Patreon for $3+ a month.

Zombie image by Jon Cape.

Herbert West: Reanimator. Part 3 Now at Patreon

Part three of H.P. Lovecraft's, Herbert West: Reanimator - Six Shots by Moonlight - is now available as an audio MP3 from my Patreon page for $1 and over patrons.

"It is uncommon to fire all six shots of a revolver with great suddenness when one would probably be sufficient, but many things in the life of Herbert West were uncommon. It is, for instance, not often that a young physician leaving college is obliged to conceal the principles which guide his selection of a home and office, yet that was the case with Herbert West. When he and I obtained our degrees at the medical school of Miskatonic University, and sought to relieve our poverty by setting up as general practitioners, we took great care not to say that we chose our house because it was fairly well isolated, and as near as possible to the potter’s field..."

If you're not a patron, fear not, the story will appear on the next Sometimes podcast  :-)