I Have to Make a Decision About XVOA on July 30
Four dollars is all that came in last week. If the monthly support stays where it is, the regular news side of XVOA goes away.
If I have to go back to work full time, I have to reduce XVOA to a novel-update site. I hate saying that because it sounds like a broken clock after a while. There have already been four campaigns like this around the end of the month. All four succeeded. The last one took two weeks to fulfill, and then here came another month.
That is why I pulled the money ask back. I gave up on repeating the $50-a-day floor and went back to one of those vague little support paragraphs down at the bottom. It is not working. As of July 25, four dollars is all that came in this past week. Less than $100 came in over the past two weeks. Contributions are down about $1,000 for the month, and more paid subscriptions are leaving than new ones are coming in to replace them.
The immediate cash shortfall is $700 by July 30. I could run a fifth campaign and maybe get that handled. I am reluctant because XVOA is still about $2,000 short every month after the subscriptions already coming in. I would finish another campaign and be right back here.
If the monthly support stays where it is, I go back to work full time. XVOA becomes mainly the Author’s Room and a novel-update site. News might come out once every two weeks when I can get to it. The regular livestreams, Blackout Briefs and podcasts go away. Those are all labor- and research-intensive, and they already require every hour in the day.
Free readers who have been meaning to go paid, I need you to do it before July 30. It is $8 a month or $80 a year.
Paid readers, your subscription already counts. The one-time link below is for anyone who has room to help with the separate $700.
Help with the $700 cash shortfall.
I will post the numbers on July 30. Then I have to decide what I can actually keep doing here.
You have a gift - and that can be a curse - you are blessing to many of us - you cut thru the dark. This platform has been flooded - especially with big wigs that jumped from major media to suck up all the action with their fancy pants tech streaming - but you can write - you can see things (but I guess not the $$ signs!!). I am a subscriber because I do read and learn ... and I feel that deserves $80 a year.
I know it's upsetting, Xplisset, but people are struggling, man. This place is also saturated with people wanting to live off of Substack. I'm in the negative at my bank, or I'd support you.
It's like being in Major League Sports. Not everybody gets to be a superstar and those that don't shouldn't complain about what's happening to this country. Hang in there, sir.