Hi!

Happy new year! Hope you liked the new audio, thanks for all the lovely welcoming messages. It feels so good to be back! Like I mentioned in my last post, I have some big updates/announcements to make.

You can listen to the audio version below, or if you don't have time to listen to me ramble, keep reading.

🌨️ LISTEN ON SOUNDGASM (8:01)

🌨️ LISTEN ON WHYP (8:01)

ROE V WADE FUNDRAISER

I've finished the last of the custom audios for the Roe V. Wade fundraiser for pro-choice organizations, finishing the fundraiser and...

We raised over $1700 for reproductive rights in the US and around the world!

I'm so beyond proud and grateful for your generosity and empathy, I learned so much from reading your comments and messages about what this issue means to you and what you were going through.

I definitely want to do more fundraisers like this in the future, since there's lots of issues that I know are important to me and to so many of you. If you sent me donation proof and DIDN'T recieve an audio from me, please shoot me a message or an email at augustwinteraudio(at)gmail.com, it's definitely possible I missed someone!

ANNOUNCEMENT

Later this month, likely the fourth week of January, I will be launching a Patreon!

I've given this a lot of thought, and it's the result of a lot of changes over the past few years, both work-wise and personally! More and more, I've been feeling like chances like this don't come along that often, and I should grab this opportunity to take this fun and creative pursuit more seriously and see where I can take it.

The idea of making creative content using voice acting and writing, and potentially making a living off it is a dream that I really want to chase. I have an incredible audience on here, and I would love the ability to make you more content, better content and more often.

If you have the ability and desire to support me on Patreon, I would be so incredibly grateful. You'll be helping me to create more audios for you and everyone.

If you can't or you don't want to, that's obviously totally cool too! The good thing about this is that any support I get from Patreon will help me create more free audios too, so no more three or four month droughts.

The mission/philosophy of the Patreon is to be about content, not selling access to myself in a way that's parasocially unhealthy. I'm hoping that the Patreon will let me be a bit more engaged with my audience, but only in a way that's safe and respectful for everyone.

In terms of what you get for your money, I'm still figuring my tiers out, but I want there to be a lowest tier that gives some value for just a few bucks a month, like early access to free content. In the higher tiers, there's going to be Patreon exclusive audios, and different kinds of content, like SFW roleplays, NSFW rambles, chatty audios, song covers, NSFW and maybe SFW writing, and who knows what else! I also want to give some Patrons a chance to vote on exclusive audios and decide what kind of content they get.

I'm hoping that the Patreon, especially the higher tier(s), will be a a space for me to play around and try different stuff, and get your feedback on what you want more regularly.

Okay, that's it for now! Watch this space for the Patreon launch later this month, I'm really excited (and nervous) to be working on it. If you want to support me in the meantime, check out my Throne wishlist, I'm so grateful for all the gifts I've received on there so far and they've already let me improve my audio set-up, so all my 2023 audios should sound better than ever!

Thank you so much for listening and commenting on my work! You're the reason I've got this far, and this whole audio journey has meant so much to me and totally changed my life.

Appreciate you all so much and take care,

August🌨️