New years update (Patreon)

Happy New Years everyone!

It's now officially been a full year since the first chapters of Emberscale Alchemist became available for readers and I have to say I'm blown away by how everything has gone.

The year certainly had its ups and downs, and further downs, but 92 chapters (94 initially, but I merged some of the prologue), over 225,000 words, and counting, all without Kori even getting her class, was definitely not how I saw things going.

I know I haven't been as reliable as even I would like over the past several months. I hope that since chapters resumed in early December that I have been better at communicating when to expect chapters and getting them out at least close to when I said.

Now for the good news, I am committing to a proper schedule. Chapters will be out in the early AM (Atlantic Standard Time, -4 GMT) on Wednesdays and Fridays going forward. If I am going to miss that time for whatever reason, which hopefully will be a rare occurrence, I will let you know on Discord.

We are also further ahead on Patreon than the promised 9 chapters, by twice that as of a few minutes ago, so I'll be raising your tier benefits to 8/12 chapters ahead of RR, though the only reason they'll catch up to that is if I miss a chapter for whatever reason.

Now for the less good news, though not for any current subscribers. New members aren't really "Early Supporters" anymore, so I'm going to retire those tiers, and the "Elder" discord role that goes with it. Any current supporters will maintain the same subscription, this will only affect new subs, and the Elder role will be maintained for everyone who was a supporter in that first year. (If you're not on the Discord and were a supporter, you'll still receive the role if you have the grandfathered early supporter subscription, if not and you resub and join the server, then you'll need to ping me to assign the role manually).

I haven't decided if the price should change with the swap, sub prices are a bit lower than what I see with other authors but I'm leery to make changes until I've proven that I can keep up with at least the 2/week for a bit.