If you’re following these posts on a regular basis, please seriously consider putting tips in my tip jar on a monthly basis! I need financial help. Can you spare $5 today (or soon) and perhaps $5/month?  If everyone who enjoys any one of my three blogs (at wordwhisperer.net, yellowballoonpublications.com and/or krisandkritters.com) would do that, it would be a huge help!

Some people put up a pay wall.  Not me.  But I do figure I write enough worthwhile stuff to earn a $5 tip every month.  That’s less than two cups of coffee.

With AI shooting me in the pocketbook at the moment while early adopters try it out as a sales copy option, I’m doing everything else I can to bring in additional streams of income (writing books, offering my voiceover talents and public speaking coaching services), but they haven’t been enough (at least, not yet!) to recoup what I’ve been losing in sales writing income.

True, I’ve just rolled out the additional services to the public, so it will take some time for them to attract potential clients.

In the meantime, I have a mortgage, grocery, and other bills to pay — and goats, cats, fish and laying hens to feed.  The critters cost quite a lot to feed, and the idea of giving some of them up because of what I hope and fervently believe is a temporary financial crunch gives me a stomach ache. I cherish my critters!

I hate to ask for anything for myself. But it’s time to do it. (Waiting any longer will earn me an ulcer!)  If there are any cheerful givers out there who can truly afford to help out, even just a little each month, I’m reaching out to you now.

Please and thank you – from my pets, too!

Charli

Patches

Mr. Tumnus and Tillie

Two of my 12 hens, stealing food from the cat dish in the kitchen because I left the door open inadvertently…