Okay, I suppose I shouldn’t be calling myself ‘baby’ at my age, but this IS my very first youtube video. Lookie! So why am I doing this? Well, for one because I have all those opinions and because two, and more importantly, because I need to draw attention to my Patreon. Yes, I am starting a Patreon. I put it off for as long as humanly possibly, mostly out of a misplaced sense of pride. You know, that I shouldn’t *need* to have a Patreon. But I do need one. Publishing pays well only for a very few, and while I am far luckier than many, that doesn’t mean I’m pulling in enough to pay the bills. Publishing is also slow, which means that even once you have a book deal, it may take half a year or more before you see a dime. So here I am, the woman who has never considered herself especially good at social media, diving into the deep end out of pure necessity. We won’t even talk about how …