I Have Been Naive

There comes a point when, listening to numerous voices whose perspectives I respect and whose success is undeniable, that one has to finally cave and accept that they have been going about things all wrong.  I have arrived at that point, and it makes me a bit maudlin.

If I continue producing every post on this Substack as completely free to read, keeping nothing behind a paywall, nobody will take the plunge and opt to support these efforts financially. People on the whole don't seem to have much respect for things they don't pay for; I already sort of knew this, keeping my commercial novels off of programs like Kindle Unlimited.

So, there will be Subscriber-only posts coming to this space in the future. Not a lot of them; not even a notable percentage. But there will be stories and/or chapters of longer works that will be only for paying subscribers in the future.

I can't be naive and just hope for support; I'm going to have to start asking for what I'm actually worth.