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Brian Quentin Webb liked the forum thread, Payment options beyond credit cards
I honestly feel like crying right now and I want you to know why - I lost another preorder because a friend went to the site with every intention to buy and got back to me with "is there an option for paypal? i only see bitcoin and credit card"

I’m doing everything I can to get pre-orders, but here it’s mostly pre-order trading that I can’t afford, or relying on an affluent social circle locally. My traffic comes from fandom people who are decidedly international and they will visit the site, see they need a credit card and leave forever.

There are at least five people I know personally who would have bought the book if they could have done so with paypal. I’m already handicapped because of my financial situation and this is supposed to be a site about democratically deciding who gets to be published.

Well, my people whether they’re local Germans or fandom people from all over are incapable of supporting me, because payment options skew so heavily toward middle class American geeks.

I get that you all tried to help with the whole thing about sharing cards or getting gift cards, but that’s requiring SO MUCH more effort from potential supporters that it’s not really a solution at all.

Please, please consider PayPal at least as an additional option - I know it will probably be too late for my novel, but for the future growth of the site it might be vital.
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    Brian Quentin Webb sent an update for Shift

    Week 2 Update!
    We booked a couple more pre-orders of Shift this week. It’s quite a bit less than the weekly rate I need to hit the minimum goal of 250 copies, but I still appreciate the purchases.

    Every.

    Single.

    One.

    Every single one counts. Again, if you are looking for other ways to help the Shift pre-order campaign succeed, please consider clicking the "Recommend" link on the pre-order page or,if you have a few more minutes, reading the sample chapter (and clicking the "Read More" link to do so), then leaving a short review.

    On that note, I threw together a book trailer. Apparently, books need trailers now. Maybe I should have done a promo trailer for the teaser trailer for the full trailer first? Oh, well. Too late now. It’s out there. You can see it at the top of the book page. Feel free to leave your comments on it.

    State of the Book
    Still on schedule. Ahead of schedule, actually. Slightly. Enough that I decided to give my favorite secondary character, Guadalupé Escalanté (a.k.a. Lupé), an additional scene and round her out a bit. If you’re interested in reading an earlier scene from her perspective (and inspired by a children’s drawing of a monster), I posted one to my blog a few months back.

    Until next week!


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