TheRealDissonance

Back From Hiatus + Patreon Benefits Update

Added 2022-02-15 16:31:57 +0000 UTC

Hello, everyone! I recently came back from hiatus on RR, and with it I released an update regarding why I stopped writing for a while and what's going to happen going forward. If you'd like to know about the context of this post and why I'm making today's choices, you can check out my update post here:

Post-Hiatus Update - Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG | Royal Road

On that note, I'll be updating you guys here assuming that you've seen the post I left up there. There isn't any easy way to say it, so I'll just state it outright:

I'm cancelling my Patreon benefits. From today onwards, I'll be removing the benefits of the tiers and releasing Saltworld for free until the end of Book 1. My advanced chapters might return later this year when I get started with Book 2, but at the moment, writing, my job, and college are stressful enough. The expectations and pressure that Patreon brings on top of that would be too much for me to handle in the long term.

So, for now, I'll be leaving my Patreon open purely for people that want to support me. I would've preferred to do otherwise, but I believe that doing this would help me dodge burning out and going on hiatus again. Patrons will still receive free copies of all the published books, but at the moment, my advanced chapters will have to make their return a bit farther into the future. I'm really sorry to do this to the people who have decided to pay for the annual patronage.

If any of my annual patrons see this, please feel free to request a refund from me if you feel that the patronage is no longer worth that money. I'm not sure how we'll go about it, but if you're taking this option, please message me so that we can figure things out.

Once again, thank you all for reading the story and supporting me.

I'll see you guys in the next chapter!

(I'll be posting my final Patreon advanced chapter alongside this update, so that you guys at least get something after my lengthy silence. Please take it as a apology from me both for this decision, and my lack of communication and consistency thus far.)