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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
It sounds like she put this up for free and then said hey, if you want to add to the tip jar/donate that'd be great. Is that right?
Or was this something more structured like Tim Pratt is doing where it's spelled out if you dontate X you'll get this, etc.?
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I have to get in on some of this action myself.
I'm writing a fantasy serial novel about a witch or a warlock or maybe it's a vampire pilot who works for Pan Am, something like that, probably a lot like Buffy but with more sex in it, awkward sex, the kind of sex where you spend a good few weeks taking extra showers hoping you can scrub down to your memories. It's called Hungry Moon Woman, or maybe it's Moon Vampire Wizard Cat..something like that, and here's my pricing plan:
$5 And I will exclude these phrases from at least one of the awkward paranormal love scenes - "Downy mound', "Honey Well" and "Throbbing Gristle" (not to be confused with the band)
$10 And I will write your name, in biro on my flesh and send you a photo (in email). $5 extra for hyphenated names. $10 extra for anything 'South Of The Border". Add $20 if your name is hard to spell or Welsh.
$25 gets you a bookmark that I will steal from the local book store (most of them have moons on them, or pithy sayings about walking in the sand and God and bright lights and such)
$50 I will mention you in the credits of the book, online.
$100 I will mention you in the credits of the book, online, and I'll get your name right.
$200 I will mention you in the credits online, get your name right, and say that we once kissed, with tongues and everything. Add $50 if you're ugly or Welsh.
$250 Same as above, plus I'll send you a picture of all the creatures in the forest that died to get you a paper book.
$300 For a full week I will go by the name Maria Von Strumpet the Ninth and affect a faux irish accent.
$500 I will watch one of the Twilght movies in its entirety without vomiting blood.
$1000 I will watch two of the Twilight movies without vomiting blood
$2000 I will come to your house watch one of the Twilight movies with you and not beat you so hard that you vomit blood.
$5000 I will sever the finger of any enemy of your choice, Yakuza style, and deliver it to you on a purple satin bed within a hand-crafted ebony box that bares the legend : "I donated 5k and all I got was this lousy severed digit!"
$10,0000 I will discover a cure for all known diseases and then instead of letting them name the cures after me, I'll give them your name instead. I will also come to your house, cook you a dinner made from the meat of endangered animals, pour you a wine that Odin himself brewed and mop your forehead with the missing passages of the Bible (the ones where Jesus goes off to become a haberdasher's assistant in Gethsemane).
$1million - I will read any Dan Brown novel of your choosing.
Now
that's a business model.