Changes are coming to FPSF
As we enter into our sixth(!) year of publication, changes are coming to how Flash Point SF publishes its stories. Heretofore we’ve published under a simple format – one story, every other week, both free to read on our website and distributed to our subscribers via email.
The big change will be to our website posts. We will no longer be posting our new stories every other week; instead, we will publish groups of them as “issues” at the end of every other month, starting in February.
Why? Because our annual Kickstarter this year was a bit of a wake up call. For a majority of the campaign, it looked as if our Kickstarter would not reach its funding goal, and this highlighted the risks of the “all or nothing” funding model we rely upon. If FPSF is to survive, it needs a more stable funding model. We have such a model (potentially) in our subscription service, but in order to get enough subscribers that we feel able to move away from Kickstarter campaigns, we need to offer real value to folks thinking about hitting that “subscribe” button.
To that end, our subscription email model won’t change at all. Our subscribers will still receive a new FPSF story every other week as an exclusive offering. If you want each story hot off the presses, $1 a month is all we ask. If you don’t want to subscribe, that’s okay too, but we’ll now ask you to wait a bit longer before stories are free to read on the website.
We’re hoping folks see this as a fair shift toward self-sufficiency for FPSF, one that rewards subscribers without hiding the best flash stories on the internet behind a paywall.
Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last five years, whether it be by subscribing, backing our Kickstarters, submitting your own work, or reading our stories and sharing them with the SFF community at large. We couldn’t be more grateful and hope this shift allows us to continue putting out amazing flash SFF for years to come.
Best,
Thomas J. Griffin & M.A. Dosser
Co-editors, Flash Point Science Fiction
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