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Catherynne M. Valente

@catvalenteTracked since May 2026

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Creating Rule-Breaking Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Writing About.

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829

−2.4% · 30 days

Total audience

1,810

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$1.7K

$829–$2.5K modeled range

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$1/mo

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$1/moLAB ASSISTANTYou're supporting me and I love you and science loves you. You are keeping the story beakers bubbling and the lights on in the Lab. You'll get access to the PATRON ONLY ACTIVITY FEED and the PATRON ONLY DISCORD SERVER, the monthly Character Postcard, and my eternal gratitude.

$5/moMAD TECHNICIANYou are supporting me even more. The Lab can finally get that exposition leak patched up and calm the beasts in the Quarantine Area. You'll get the PATRON ONLY ACTIVITY FEED, PATRON ONLY DISCORD SERVER, and Character Postcard as above *PLUS* exclusive access to the MONTHLY EXPERIMENT: a recipe with a high quality photo, a review of whatever I'm reading/watching/playing that month, and a comedic essay addressing aspects of writing and/or publishing and/or life on Planet Earth: characterization, dialogue, worldbuilding, marketing, extended dance sequence, pandemic coping, getting an agent, etc.

$8/moRough MechanicalsIn addition to all public posts, Discord access, and the monthly experiment (recipe and essay), Rough Mechanicals will receive an "I Made This!" photo-essay every month featuring the slow remodeling and reclaiming of my crumbling 124-year old Maine house as your humble mad fictioneer attempts to do something useful other than writing and learn the DIY skills necessary to keep it all from falling down. I do not have these skills! Hijinks will inevitable ensue. When applicable, advice and instructions will be included!

$10/moTOTALLY VOLUNTARY TEST SUBJECTSYou are a Lab-Certified Wonderful Human Being. The boiler has promised to hold off on total enraged sentience at least until next Tuesday. Now we can keep the Bad Writing Centrifuge spinning out the crap for hours at a time! You’ll get ALL THE REWARDS ABOVE *PLUS* an EARLY LOOK at whatever Cat is working on that month—unreleased chapters, short stories excerpts, poems, etc.

$15/moTOP SECRET UNVERIFIED RESEARCHYou are very popular with the denizens of the Lab. There’s a photo of you up in the break room next to the Melodramatic Coffee Maker. You'll get ALL THE REWARDS ABOVE *PLUS* receive an exclusive PATRON ONLY not-featured-on social-media top-shelf image of one of the LABORATORY DENIZENS you are helping to support. (Will this be a photo of my terminally floofy, definitely real despite appearances Samoyed puppy? My Improbably Giant Cats? Or a watercolor portrait of Synecdoche the Crackpot Robot?) WHO CAN SAY?

$20/moMAD POST DOC STUDENTYou're supporting me so much I might explode. It's a significant possibility. In unrelated news, the Lab can finally break ground on our Exploding Wordcount Accelerator! You'll get ALL OF THE REWARDS ABOVE, *PLUS* Random Access Mind: a random Thing posted for this tier every month. Could be a drawing, recording, poem, photo, story, idle thoughts on 17th century loom weights and the nuns who love them--anything. A surprise every thirty days. AND, you'll take part in FIELD WORK: You'll be able to request a subject for the media review of the month, and ask questions for semi-regular video Q&A on YouTube Live. Q&As may cover any subject, not limited to explosions, writing, or publishing. I also know a lot about contagious diseases. Why? No reason. Why would you ask that? Everyone needs a hobby.

$50/moGUEST LECTURERYou are a wonderful, generous soul who will definitely be spared when the Print Apocalypse comes. Thanks to you, the Lab can spring for running water and three out of four door locks at last! ALL OF THE REWARDS ABOVE, *PLUS* I will use your name, (or the name of one your characters, or your mother, or your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate) in a future EXPERIMENT or SHORT STORY or NOVEL EVEN (and if possible credit you). Note: it make take me a while to get to it depending on how popular this reward is.

$100/moRESEARCH FELLOWWe’ve lit a stick of incense under your photo in the break room. The boiler has been busy making you a Valentine—it’s very messy and is mostly a picture of you on fire, but that’s how psychotic boilers show love. ALL OF THE REWARDS ABOVE *plus* I will PUT YOU IN THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of my next published single volume work.

$150/moPARTNERS IN WORDCRIMEThe LAB DENIZENS are performing interpretive dances about how amazing you are with Erlehnmeyer flasks, pipettes, and typewriter ribbons stolen from passing hipsters. Let the Lab light a fire under you. You’ll get ALL OF THE REWARD ABOVE *PLUS* a MONTHLY WRITING DATE with me and other partners in wordcrime over Google Hangout wherein you and I (and possibly the cats) will write together for two hours without stopping. Kickstart your work without the convenient excuse of doing it another day.

$250/moMAD OFFICE HOURSGratitude doesn’t begin to cover how the Lab feels about you. The Table of Fictional Elements blushes whenever you walk by. This morning, the chickens laid eggs shaped like all your hopes and dreams. The boiler started singing torch songs and drawing hearts on the basement walls with BOILR + YOU written inside them. You’ll receive ALL THE REWARDS ABOVE *PLUS* a PERSONAL SKYPE CHAT where we can talk about whatever you want: getting started in publishing, your book, the latest developments in kitchen gadgetry, whether Battlestar Galactica screwed up their ending more or less than Lost.

$500/moPEER REVIEWYou are rapidly approaching sainthood in the pantheon of the Lab. All Lab denizens have been given your birthday off. There’s a poster of you secretly taped up in all the employee lockers. They’re only serving your favorite foods in the cafeteria and the Large Plotpoint Collider keeps asking when you’re going to come and visit. In thanks for your astonishing support, you get EVERYTHING ABOVE (exluding MAD OFFICE Reward) and Cat will READ A SHORT STORY OF YOURS (or 50 pages of a longer work) and CRITIQUE IT WITH YOU over the phone or skype.

$1,000/moFACULTY CHAIREVERYTHING ABOVE plus ADVANCE PAPER COPIES of anything I publish: SIGNED and PERSONALIZED with a HANDWRITTEN letter. If I don’t have anything coming out that month, you will receive a MYSTERY GIFT from the lab. This could be a hard-to-find edition of my early work, a painting or hand knit/crocheted creation by yours truly, a hand-filked song recorded just for you, it could be anything - ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT.

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829 paid members · past 30 days

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Catherynne M. Valente829 members · $1.7K/mo

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Rank	Creator and why included	Total audience	Gap vs Catherynne M. Valente	Freshness
#1	Seanan McGuireWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity	6,239	4.4K more	Aug 7, 2026
#2	Catherynne M. ValenteProfileWritingTotal audience position in Content & vibe cohort	1,810	Reference	Aug 2, 2026Stale
#3	CE MurphyWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity	320	1.5K fewer	Jul 31, 2026
#4	Laura Anne GilmanWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity	291	1.5K fewer	Jul 28, 2026Stale
#5	R. S. BelcherWritingProfile, tiers & post-preview similarity	118	1.7K fewer	Aug 3, 2026

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