Aphorisms -- a user-funded chapbook

Details on Hogarth's project are here:

• http://www.stardancer.org/kherishdar/about.phtml

"This project was funded by reader donations. Each donation of $15 sponsored a new short, which is posted on the haikujaguar livejournal and archived here. A chapbook of all 25 incense stories will be offered for sale once the full run of stories has been sponsored and posted.

You may choose to join the list of patrons, or you are welcome to enjoy the incense stories that other people have made available with their donations. If you prefer to read on Livejournal, each incense story is tagged under the aphorisms of kherishdar for easy browsing. You may also wish to browse the author's information on the Ai-Naidar, or search the author's illustrations of the Ai-Naidar on Stardancer.Org."

Comments from the author:

"Well, after trying to sell the flash fiction shorts (they're ~500 words each) to markets that took them and failing, I conferred with readers and we worked things out. They agreed as a community to pay pro rates for short fiction to see each short go up on the website, for 25 pieces. Everyone donated what they felt they could, and when I hit the "cap" for the short story, I'd post it.

The results: I was paid over 4 cents a word per short for all 25 shorts. When I discussed the chapbook illustrations, people insisted they wanted to pay for that also, and have done so, at roughly $35 a plate.

I'm about to put the cover up for sponsorship; I'm just going to leave that as an open donation for a week so that people who want to get their name on the Patron list on the website and in the physical copy can do so.

By the time I put out the short story collection, I'll have made more money on this project (and spent none) than I have on any other piece of writing I've done, and that's counting the really long sales I made to Strange Horizons."

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