{"id":13918,"date":"2025-03-25T10:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13918"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:26:30","slug":"blood-ties-jennys-version-a-patreon-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13918","title":{"rendered":"Blood Ties (Jenny&#8217;s version): A Patreon update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m being so lazy and just copy\/pasting this blog post, for the most part, from the one I made on Patreon. But you&#8217;ve seen my to-do list. You can cut me some slack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over on Patreon and Ream, the core Fablemere trilogy is wrapped. All three will be\u00a0available in ebook and paperback by the end of this year. I&#8217;m so happy I got to write it, and I&#8217;m so grateful to everyone who supported it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens to that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/JennyTrout\">Patreon<\/a> tier now? What happens to <a href=\"https:\/\/reamstories.com\/abigailbarnette\">Ream<\/a>? Well, the Patreon tier will still exist. It&#8217;s just call The Library now. Fablemere will stay available for $3 and up patrons, but the focus will shift from just that universe to other works that I&#8217;ll serialize before going to paperback and ebook releases. If you read my stuff on the Radish and Yonder apps, it&#8217;s similar to that model. Subscribers will see it before it goes to publication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, I&#8217;m working on a rewrite of my first-ever novel, <em>Blood Ties Book One: The Turning.<\/em>&nbsp;I&#8217;ll be releasing the updated version on the 20th anniversary of its first publication, June 6, 2026, as <em>The Turning, <\/em>as part of the <em>Blood Ties (Jenny&#8217;s version)<\/em>&nbsp;series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m actually doing the <em>(Jenny&#8217;s version)<\/em>\u00a0thing, because Taylor Swift re-recording her masters was a <em>massive<\/em>\u00a0inspiration to me when making the decision to pursue the rights to these books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Turning<\/em>\u00a0will be the next work I post on the $3 Patreon tier, and on Ream. It won&#8217;t be a weekly upload, however. Fablemere was written with the expectation that it would be serialized, meaning shorter chapters that are all about the same length, between 1,500 and 3,000 words long. <em>The Turning<\/em>\u00a0is a traditional novel, and the chapters range between 3,000 and 6,000 words, and I&#8217;m rewriting it all. Because the project isn&#8217;t finished yet, the uploads might be two weeks apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, take all of that into account and decide if the Patreon and Ream is still right for you. Chapters of <em>The Turning<\/em>\u00a0will begin posting on April 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the super cringe blurb it was originally published with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I&#8217;m no coward. I want to make that perfectly clear. But after my life turned into a horror movie, I take fear a lot more seriously now. I finally became Dr. Carrie Ames just eight months ago. Then I was attacked in the hospital morgue by a vampire. Just my luck.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>So now I&#8217;m a vampire, and it turns out I have a blood tie to the monster who sired me. The tie works like an invisible leash and I&#8217;m bound to him no matter what I do. And of course he&#8217;s one of the most evil vampires on earth. With my sire hell-bent on turning me into a soulless killer and his sworn enemy set to exterminate me, things couldn&#8217;t get much worse &#8212; except I&#8217;m attracted to them both.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Drinking blood, living as an immortal demon and being a pawn between two warring vampire factions isn&#8217;t exactly how I&#8217;d imagined my future. But as my father used to say, the only way to conquer fear is to face it. So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ll do. Fangs bared.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m being so lazy and just copy\/pasting this blog post, for the most part, from the one I made on Patreon. But you&#8217;ve seen my&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/?p=13918\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blood Ties (Jenny&#8217;s version): A Patreon update<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13919,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions\/13919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennytrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}