Dear Dets! After reading your thoughts about your Patreon, I decided to show my appreciation for your creative gifts by donating the cost of a 4-volume set of The Hobbit/LotR to Puerto Rican hurricane relief.

YES THAT IS STELLAR – THAT IS EXACTLY THE IDEA, nonnie you are a gem *hugs*

You should advertise your patreon more

Hey Nonnie! Totally true, bc I don’t promote it at ALL, and I don’t think I will, tbh – I only set it up bc someone asked me about it. Here’s my reasoning.

I live in a two-income home, which we are slowly (god, so slowly) paying off. I have a good job, which I love. I’m able to feed myself, my family, and pay for childcare using my earnings and a bit of forward planning (I love my garden!! and I love baking). We budget carefully, and we save a bit of money each week, donate a bit each week. We’re not flush, but we are chugging along ok. We’re ok.

Other folks who sell their work, art, words, time and effort, are finding it hard to manage rent and food. They need transport, utilities, clothes. There’s natural disasters everywhere when you turn the TV on these days. All those folks need a donation or a contribution WAY more than I do.

So, though the thought is super appreciated, but I’m sorted for money! If people would like to show their appreciation to me, I am always turned into a stammering blushy squirmy mess by a nice review, the nightly kudos email, a bit of art, a song, or just a keysmash. Seriously, that’d do it, for me. I am a simple potato with simple needs 🙂

I’m honestly HONESTLY more content with money flowing towards those folks who need it. But thank you, Nonnie 🙂

Do you have a Patreon or online tip jar or PayPal or something where you accept donations because you’re amazing and your song “Light on the Horizon” literally brings me to tears every time I even think about it much less sing it and you really deserve to be massively rewarded for all the amazingness you bring into the world and I kind of would really like it if I could do that?

hey Nonnie!

I didn’t – as of two seconds ago! Now I do. Here it is!

Dets has a Patreon now omg

I want to stress, though, that I do not need money. I have a good job that supports myself, my family AND my hobbies. So don’t feel obligated, ever! I appreciate the thought more than I can ever say, though, and I am so SO HONOURED that you think my music is worth actual real-world money!

(no really, that last thought is making my whole head implode)

Lastly, I’d like to direct folks towards the lovely @kailthia, who could use a little extra far far more than I do. Please donate to her, if you can! This post has details!