New Website—Same Online Magazine


Sir Socks as himself

So, our part of our experiment has failed on this current site. The one that has to be paid for. (sirsockslechat.com) We didn’t get any charities to promote. One talked to us and then we heard nothing else from them. One just wanted to talk about dogs and forgot about the cats. Others just didn’t plain respond.

We haven’t received donations after we got this paid site up and running. We have no money coming in to pay for this site. We also don’t get enough hits on the site every month to have paid advertising. So, that was also a failure. We do get hits. Just not enough to do these other things we wanted to do with the online magazine.

So, this issue is the last one on this site. The site is going down later this month. (October 2019) However, we still have our backup site at sirsockslechatvideo.blog. So, all the articles will be found there.

We do plan on keeping the magazine going a little while longer. At least long enough to serialize my memoirs. We will still post how many copies Cat Tales of the Frisky9 Scarf Army sells. We also want to put another Cat Tales book about the Ambassacats out to benefit Battersea. Hopefully, Gladstone will be ready to rally the ambassacats as my girl gathers all the information and pictures for the book.

Please continue to enjoy my magazine and my memoirs. There’s still more to come.

No Charities


image from Ali Noel Vyain

It is to my extreme displeasure to announce that we have not had any charities to save up money for every month. I do know both Clarabelle and my girl have reached out to different charities to see if they were interested. One was able to get an initial response from their chosen charity. The other one heard nothing.

I myself was in contact with a charity briefly. Unfortunately, they wanted to tell the sad tales of dogs in need and my magazine is about cats. There also wasn’t enough information on the charity either. They don’t have a website. I don’t have a problem with any charity helping dogs. However, because it is a cat magazine, the charity does need to focus more on cats.

For the book Cat Tales of the Frisky9 Scarf Army, the charity is Dingo Venezia. That particular organization has a history of helping more than just cats. In fact the first animal rescued was a dog named Dingo. So, of course we will focus more on the cats, but also acknowledge that they have helped dogs as well. I don’t know if they still do help anyone other than cats.

So, without charities, and no donations whatsoever, I see no point in keeping this paid website. We have our free back up site at sirsockslechat.video.blog It is better than nothing. Perhaps you the readers would prefer a book to take with you than to donate to this site. I don’t know what you’re actually thinking.

I just hope you don’t believe that writers should always work for free and don’t deserve to earn money from their work. If you do, then I don’t know what will happen to people like my girl who work as much as she does and gets seems so little in return. Perhaps you don’t value writing work or understand what it all entails? It’s sad when people expect to get creative work for free. It’s taking advantage of the creative people who could easily starve even though they work. Often times creative people have their creative endeavors and a regular job too. That’s a lot of work in case you didn’t know…

So, yes, I’m disappointed, but then again I do know that even though I am serializing my memoirs in my online magazine, that not the whole book will be online. There are some behind the scenes that can only be found in the ebook version. I don’t know if it will be in print someday. I don’t know what plans my girl will be making in that direction. When I know, then I will let the rest of you know too.

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