I 'donated' to both Fledgling and Saltation in one go - I don't have a paypal account and it ended up costing me almost $100 - Australian - which is well and above what I would have paid for the books if I had bought them here... but you did promise to sign them and I can't get that over here. I didn't donate until after Saltation started as it was more cost effective for me to do two than one (but I felt really dreadful about reading Fledgling without donating).
I have only read the above books via web serialisation. It became one of the highlights of my week to read the chapter and then to go to 'book club' and read/listen to the discussion and add my 2 cents worth - or not. (I actually often pictured you rofl about some of our speculations). The great thing about reading the first draft is that when the paper copy finally gets here it will be a whole new book.
I would definitely read anything from the Liaden universe (the next one after I Dare would be a great start for me :o)). I would like to have the option of 5 or 6 sample chapters from an author I was not familiar with before buying (I like this word better - though the difference between buying and donating necessitates a much more sophisticated password protected site.) And I would pay less if I was not going to get a hard copy of some sort on completion. If it was only going to be available online or electronically then I would expect to be reading the final version not a first draft and so would not expect 'life' to interfere.
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Date: 2009-04-11 12:23 am (UTC)I have only read the above books via web serialisation. It became one of the highlights of my week to read the chapter and then to go to 'book club' and read/listen to the discussion and add my 2 cents worth - or not. (I actually often pictured you rofl about some of our speculations). The great thing about reading the first draft is that when the paper copy finally gets here it will be a whole new book.
I would definitely read anything from the Liaden universe (the next one after I Dare would be a great start for me :o)). I would like to have the option of 5 or 6 sample chapters from an author I was not familiar with before buying (I like this word better - though the difference between buying and donating necessitates a much more sophisticated password protected site.) And I would pay less if I was not going to get a hard copy of some sort on completion. If it was only going to be available online or electronically then I would expect to be reading the final version not a first draft and so would not expect 'life' to interfere.