We’ve joined Patreon, Bateman’s Gully is waiting for you!
EDIT JAN 31ST 2022: The BuddyBate Patreon closed in Nov 2021, for reasons beyond our control. We are now publishing bator fiction directly to our audience. Please click here to check out the BuddyBate Book Club.
As you might know, we’ve been looking for the best way to keep our awesome little home here growing, and while it’s awesome that so many of you help us out by joining in with the BuddyBate button project (and thereby joining the international community too), and signing up to the sites we promote now and then, we felt like we needed something else to help keep the lights on around here.
We talked about releasing a book of bate fiction, which you guys really seemed eager for and which we’ve been working on tirelessly for the last few months.
Then we started getting messages from readers suggesting we check out Patreon.
What is Patreon? If you haven’t seen a million YouTuber’s promoting theirs, it’s a great way for an audience of fans to support and encourage creators. Patrons (that would be you, hopefully) create an account and subscribe to the creators they enjoy, selecting the “tier” that’s most suitable for them. Each tier can provide different things to you as a supporter, but our first $2/month tier gives you access to the ongoing stories we’ll be publishing every week. Other tiers might offer you something extra, like a behind the scenes look at the creative process, or merch for the stories you’ve enjoyed the most, or perhaps the opportunity to get involved in the creative process yourself. More on that to come.
It’s easy to sign up at Patreon, and discreet too. Don’t worry, your billing won’t show who you’re a patron of or what you’re reading.
So, here’s the deal… While we’re still looking into the tiers we might be able to offer our subscribers over on Patreon in the future, and the benefits we can give through those tiers to readers who support us there, we will be offering a basic $2/month plan which gets you access to exclusive fiction once a week, as well as sneak peeks at what’s coming up every Friday. We’ve also added a $4/month plan which gives you more direct involvement in future stories. Don’t worry, we’ll still be posting all the awesome reader experiences here and we’ll likely be continuing some of the great stories you’ve been enjoying on the blog, but we know you love the fiction posts and it’s something we want to deliver more of.
In order to write more fiction for you, we need to get paid enough to at least cover the hours it takes.
Patreon offers us the best option for us to continue to grow. It gives you more of what you want (our steaming hot fiction), while also supporting us. We want to keep that cost low for you, something you can plausibly afford each month, hoping that the numbers of you willing to support us will make that worthwhile.
If you’ve read our fiction you know it’s good. While we think it’s worth far more than $2 a month we hope you’ll agree that it’s worth at least that minimal fee. Not only do you get those weekly posts of ongoing fiction, we’ll be posting previews of what’s to come each week to keep you going, and if you’re willing to take the next tier up you can be involved in the process too.
We’ve kicked things off there with a brand new story. Bateman’s Gully is planned to run for several months, following the story of Harry and Dave (and their friends) as their bromance becomes increasingly bate-centric. Subscribers in the “Donor” tier will get access to all of these posts as they arrive each week, giving you something great to look forward to reading on your days off, on the train home or on a break at college, while those in the “Participant” tier ($4 per month) will have the option to name characters, steer the story, and help us to develop new themes and locations for future fiction.
We think this is a great way for you to get involved in creating the story and being a part of it, while giving us plenty of inspiration, too!
We know that a lot of readers have been looking for a way to support us and while you can only buy a membership to EnglishLads or buy a BuddyBate lapel pin so many times, this is a great way for you to support what we do AND get something great out of it every week.
You can find part one of Bateman’s Gully at our Patreon today, we look forward to seeing you there and reading your comments on this awesome story as it develops. The next part will be arriving on Friday 6th September. Of course, you’ll have access to all previous publications there under your chosen tier so you won’t miss out on any of the story.
Thanks for listening, I hope you’ll be willing to subscribe for the extra content and help us to continue to grow this great community.
I love your stories. I’m ready to join patreon. But. I like to jerk to these stories. Any chance you can voice record the stories?
Of course down the road if there were videos acting it out. That would be amazing I