Catherynne M. Valente

WELP. In addition to literally everything being on fire on every level, Patreon has chosen to not delay their marvelous billing changes and plow on ahead with them as of this month. Many changes took effect at Patreon today, with more to come in November--pretty much all devastating to creators' inc

Note: I am still recovering from left-hand (of darkness) carpal tunnel surgery, with stitches scheduled out on Friday. But work and Halloween wait on no primate, so I'm going to try to get all the October rewards up before pain takes over. Thank you all for your patience and support while I invest i

Before we get to the rest of this month's rewards, I want to make a public post explaining a few things from the Patreon creator backend (ha ha). Recently, Patreon added a "subscribe for free!" button to all creators' front pages. Great idea, right? Easy click button to get people onto the free feed

Good afternoon, cozy folk. So here in this, the Year of Our Last Fuck Given (and Last Pipe Burst!)2023, I want to get a little more organized with Patreon and my schedule so that I can feel less like I live in a constant tsunami of failing. Thus! Some changes! All beneficial and aiming toward gettin

Hello, everyone! I hope this Thursday is treating you as well as a Thursday in 2020, the Nurse Ratched of years, can be expected to treat anyone. Two notes of interest to some or all of you before I disappear into the last chapters of this bloody stubborn book! One, the annoying PBS/NPR pledge-drive

Hello there Patrons! And apologies for the flood of notifications, I had no idea that would happen until, you know, it happened. Ahem. So it has been over a year here on Patreon. A year of experiments and recipes and photos and giveaways and Laboratory hi-jinx. Books have launched, beloved pets have