Well, folks, I've really let this page go to waste, failing to use it for nearly three years! I really need to be better about that sort of thing...

In that vein, I'm going to be turning here to Subscribestar as my primary premium-level content hosting location, thus avoiding the likes of Patreon (which I finally got rid of last month, since, again, I wasn't really using it at all) and PayPal (which I occasionally linked to on my Bitchute videos in the hopes of cultivating some financial backers for my narrative efforts). It's time to finally, firmly plant my feet on the ground and say, "Not everything I offer is going to be free anymore. I am worth receiving fiscal reward for my creative efforts." 

I've been historically terrible about this, for years. But I'm at a point now where, quite frankly, I cannot afford to keep putting in the amount of effort that I always do, year in and year out, and just accept that I won't receive any money for these  efforts. And so, I am returning here to Subscribestar, and hope that it can start yielding tangible results.

There's no telling whether this will be a success or not yet, but as long as there's hope, I will cling to it, no matter how small. 

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In the event anybody comes upon my humble Subscribestar page and finds themselves wondering why I have it listed as an '18+' channel, I'd like to take a moment to offer a proper explanation. 

Subscribestar allows for the posting of text, photos, videos and audio files by content providers for their audience. As I have already made clear, I fully intend to utilize this platform predominantly to monetize my genre fiction works moving forward, since my primary publisher, Booksforabuck, has closed shop. Over the years, I have produced my works in several formats, including traditional print, digital print, audiobook (self-read and recorded), and audiobook-as-YouTube-video, as well as a handful of podcast episodes devoted to telling short works.

A great deal of my material, especially my Amelia City horror stories, involves a healthy amount of brutality and gore, which could be construed as 'Adult Only' by certain audiences or content platforms. My rambles about the publishing industry and the state of indie genre fiction's overall quality tend to become rife with profanities and insulting hyperbole for the purposes of demonstrating more clearly my points. Even my Tamalarian Tales high fantasy novels indulge in explicitly violent scenes, harsh language, and themes often not deemed 'appropriate to the general public'. 

While I generally detest the oversensitivity of the modern audience, I understand and appreciate that I must make adjustments to allow for their saturation into the market of available readers/listeners. It is as a result of this understanding that I have opted to mark my channel here '18+', so that my potential readers and listeners will understand from the word 'Go' that they are not necessarily setting themselves up for a consistently pleasant or 'clean' fiction experience or look into the narrative arts/businesses. 

Thank you for your time and understanding folks. Hang tight, and take the chance to subscribe now as a supporter for only $1/month, because starting with the next post, I will be presenting for your reading pleasure the next Tamalarian Tale of the Fourth Age- "Not So Epic"!

Greetings and salutations, all, and welcome to the Subscribestar channel of longtime genre fiction storyteller Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy, better known in the niche corners he inhabits as Byronofsidius! 

There's going to be a host of unique material coming specifically to this channel, most of it genre fiction. Some will be in text format, some presented as audio readings of new material. A couple of my old, out-of-print works will also be making their reappearance via Subscribestar, such as 'Wraiths of Formuth', an Amelia City novel that's been out of circulation for about four years now.

I appreciate any and all support subscribers can offer, and don't want to overcharge for something I enjoy doing to begin with. As such, access for the moment is only $1/month! I encourage any and all, of course, to spread the word as well, and let genre fiction be read by those who seek it out.

Cheers, ladies and gentlemen!