Amanda Palmer Instagram – I’m a writer again? Oh New York City with your tall buildings and elevators and weird lobby art. I love you. Publishing and management meetings galore. This mama is getting back to writing some real books and it’s long overdue. Stay tuned; I have about 7 books in mind and it’ll take a second. Meanwhile I have a new @dresdendolls record to make and tour around the world. It’s gonna work.🫠 The patreon? Don’t worry. It’s going to be the backstage workshop and lab for everything, and the living room/pub in which I collapse at the end of the day after trying to engage with whatever we are calling The Real World. Now that I’m about to hit 20,000 patrons 🎉, I’m starting to believe that IT IS the real world and everything else is just imaginary. About half of these folks are paying patrons and the other half are along for the ride; they are “free members” who get free posts but not locked content. If you don’t understand how patreon works, think of it like a subscribtion to an artist-as-magazine, or a contribution to your local museum or NPR station. You don’t have to tune into 100% of the content; it would be almost weird if you did. But you want an artist broadcasting content, because you trust them to make the right choices in broadcasting. That’s what patronage is. Not so much a store for “stuff” as a consistent support for artists and writers to make things unfettered by the strains of capitalism and sales. I’ve funded albums, videos, podcasts, poems, charity projects, documentaries, live-streamed countless concerts. Answered countless questions. Read hundreds of thousand of comments. These people know me. But also, I know them. It’s family. I’m coming up on my 10th year on Patreon and it’s changed my life. Not everybody understands it, not everybody likes it, and the beauty of it is…not everybody needs to. I’ve sent almost 2k posts to my patrons…that’s about a post every four days. The story is an always story. Yesterday I posted a patron-only transcript of my talk with bestselling author @elizlesser that I held in a venue (@gravesidevariety) that I funded in part with patron $. It’s working. Become a patron. Link in stories. 🎡♥️ #patreon