You can purchase my work on several platforms. Here you’ll find more information about each platform and how I use them. This is meant to give some amount of transparency as to why I’m on the platforms that I’m on.
As a reminder, I’m an indie author, meaning that you (the reader) are the key to my success. I appreciate your willingness to invest in that success so that I can continue sharing stories with you about diverse and colorful worlds.
Gaius J Augustus Shop
You can purchase ebooks of my work right here in my shop.
Availability: A selection of completed stories and series volumes is available in ebook format via the shop. Not all stories are available.
How it works: Check out the shop! Find an ebook you like. After you purchase it, you’ll get an email from our partner, Bookfunnel, with instructions on how to download your ebook.
Benefits:
- Directly support the author!
- Read on your own device with EPUB files!
- Import the ebook into whatever reading device or viewer you want!
- Traditional ebook reading experience!
Magician’s Club HQ (aka The Club HQ)
At the Magician’s Club HQ (aka The Club HQ), you can read exclusive content, get behind the scenes news, and get rewards. The club has an integrated reading experience and community engagement features such as commenting and a community news feed. And as we grow, more features will be rolled out.
Availability: My work is available globally through the browser. Visit anytime at gaiusjaugustus.com/mchq.
How it works: The first few episodes of most stories are free. After that, you’ll need to subscribe to one of the premium tiers. There are also several stories available to all members (free & premium).
Benefits:
- Get access to my work as soon as possible!
- Sign up for free or upgrade to a premium plan!
- Pay one monthly/annual fee and read all my work!
- Integrated reading experience!
- Commenting!
- Community news feed!
Laterpress
Laterpress is a platform for indie authors to publish directly to readers. It’s a very new platform, but allows me to get my serial fiction out into the world beyond the US.
Availability: My work is available globally through the browser. Links are through my domain so you’ll have a seamless experience powered by Laterpress.
How it works: The first 3 episodes of each book are free. After that, you have a few options. You can buy episodes in batches (the number of episodes Ina batch is different per series), or you can subscribe to read all my work as soon as it goes live for one yearly subscription price!
Benefits:
- A platform made by and for authors!
- Get access to my work as soon as possible!
- Pay one fee and read all my work!
- Integrated reading experience!
Kindle Vella
As may be obvious by the name, Kindle Vella is a platform by Amazon.
Availability: Kindle Vella is currently still in beta and only available in the US. You can access it in your browser, through the Kindle app on your mobile phone, and on some Kindle devices. Not all of my stories are available on Kindle Vella.
How it works: The first 10 episodes of each series is free to read. Episodes are purchased with tokens, which can be purchased in batches from 200-1700 tokens at the time of writing.
Benefits:
- You can read right inside the Amazon Kindle app!
- Comment on each episode!
- Pay per episode!