PSA: Fledgling Supporters, take note!

[rolanni]

If you subscribed to Fledgling sufficient unto receiving a thank-you book from the authors, and you have not heard from and responded to Scott Raun, now is the hour!

Please feel free to post the following link -- with explanation and following the rules of courtesy -- in those places you Fledgling readers may gather: http://www.korval.com/fledgling/

There are approximately 175 people who stand in danger of not receiving their books, because their addresses cannot be verified. Please be sure that you are not among their unhappy ranks.

Thank you!

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thank you for thinking of this.

I went over to the US Post Office site and fed in the information for sending Fledgling to the UK. It would appear that, cheapest, we're looking at $14.20 for one book, which is, frankly, somewhat more than we had budgeted for postage out of the donations*. The post office has been going, er, batshit the last few years with rates, which of course we didn't -- and couldn't -- know in 2007, when this all started. (We have, for the record, seen four postage rate increases since January 2007.)

Because we are freelancers, the IRS considers any money we take in to be taxable -- that's just how it is.

Let me poke around for a couple minutes and see if I can set something up with PayPal. I will make a new post at the top of the journal detailing what I may discover.

Watch the skies!

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*the accounting for Fledgling and Saltation went like this: 33% off the top for taxes; split the remainder in half, one half to postage and (so we thought at the time) printing, the other half to keeping the authors under roof.