Guess what — I haz a Patreon now (much to my surprise).
Here’s what happened.
Last week I finished up the reading on Toba, the next supervolcano in the series, feeling a little overwhelmed.
We’ve checked out the volcano a couple of times, so I decided to focus in this coming post on the Youngest Toba Tuff’s climate effects ~74,000 years ago and look into whether it really did almost wipe us out.
It turns out that there are many different opinions on each point, and so I needed to clear my head before writing about it all.
That was a purrfect opportunity to do what promised to be a quick task on the to-do list: setting up subscriptions to chapters in my Decade Volcano and the two housecat eBooks by making them paid posts over on bjdeming.net.
The instructions looked simple enough, but it wasn’t simple at all — probably because of my inability to do block editing, which is required for subscriptions on the WordPress platform.
I’m an old-fashioned HTML type, and even try to avoid CSS!
Those of you who also subscribe to that blog know how it turned out. My initial free posts went fine, but I just could not get the paid subscription post to work.
To make a long story short, I looked for alternatives today and ended up on Patreon, which is incredibly easy to use.
If you visit the link, you will see my plans there: the DV book chapters and other exclusive content on volcanoes and volcanism, guided by member suggestions and questions.
Nothing changes here — I love this blog and am so glad that you all like it, too. Only the future plan is affected:
- The individual supervolcano posts continue, followed by parts 2 and 3 of the VEI 8 series, as mentioned.
- Instead of then doing a new eBook on supervolcanoes, I will write that same “book” as member content over on Patreon.
I think that will work out better in the long run than doing it as an Amazon Kindle book, which was my original thought.
Meanwhile, Fridays here continue to be feline, Saturdays have their Dog Day Afternoon, and general Sunday Morning Volcano posts resume after the VEI 8 series is completed.
Thank you for your ongoing interest and support!
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