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Daniel M. Bensen

@danielmbensenTracked since May 2026

creating speculative biology, alternate history, fantasy.

Observed Aug 26, 2026 · stalePublic earnings

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Paid members

0% · 30-day rate from 23 observed days

Total audience

incl. free followers

Observed monthly earnings

$38

Starting price

$1/mo

5 membership tiers

Where the 72 observed tier members sit

Membership tiers

$084.7%

Largest observed tier is $0 Free. Tier totals include free-tier members and come from the Aug 26, 2026 public snapshot, so they do not reconcile to the paid-member total.

$0/moFree6184.7% of observed tier members

$1/moDire Shmoo811.1% of observed tier members

$3/moAdmirable Self-Flinger11.4% of observed tier members

$10/moPowersuit11.4% of observed tier members

$20/moLeviathan11.4% of observed tier members

Growth signals: Daniel M. Bensen

11 paid members · 30-day rate from 23 observed days

Membership

111211

May 202618 weeks trackedNow

Daniel M. Bensen11 members · $38/mo

The chart only uses Daniel M. Bensen's observed public history. Comparison peers are listed below, but comparable trend series are not available yet.

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8 of 9 cohort creators have a measured paid-member count; the other 1 remains unranked for this metric.Ranking data · includes stale rows

Daniel M. Bensen's paid members rank in Recommended cohort
Rank	Creator and why included	Paid members	Gap vs Daniel M. Bensen	Freshness
#4	MaeltopiaWritingContent relevance + business context	160	149 more	Aug 29, 2026
#5	StrikerWritingContent relevance + business context	141	130 more	Aug 24, 2026
#6	R'WritingContent relevance + business context	17	6 more	Aug 19, 2026Stale
#7	Daniel M. BensenProfileWritingPaid members position in Recommended cohort	11	Reference	Aug 26, 2026Stale
#8	AlexWritingContent relevance + business context	3	8 fewer	Sep 2, 2026

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93Posts total0 postsLast month16.7%Members-only

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Article Latest postPublicClouds Making Friends

So there I was, huddled under the spreading beams in the attic of a Serbian cultural center, drawing. The old men around me did the same, bu

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Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen: a time-travel romanceFormer soldier Andrea Herrera isn’t happy with where her life’s taken her. Specifically, Hell Creek, Montana, 65 million years before theArticleSep 25, 2025Public 0 0

June book reviews: And Then What? And Then What?Starquest: Sinister Syndicate of Space, by John C. Wright Wright used to be a more generous author. He’d have a character mention somethingArticleJuly 18Public 0 0 The Sink“I didn’t tell you because I thought you’d get mad,” said my thirteen-year-old. I stared at her, already tucked into her bed. Then I steppedArticleJune 19Public 0 0

Wealthgiver is FinishedCover art by Artyom Trakhanov “Let battles bloom” Andrei Trifonovich has become the avatar of Hades, which means that now he has to rescue aImageJune 19Public 0 0

April book Reviews: The Idea’s MouthPornoland by Tyson James A month ago, I quoted this book to my wife: “I don’t mean to be condescending, but your life is a shriveled, distorArticleMay 29Public 0 0 April Newsletter: Conversation PieceSo there we were, smuggling art across the Serbian border. Our line of cars drew closer to the waving border guards, and Pavlina and I grewImageMay 15Public 0 0

March Book Reviews: A Raven Nailed to a WallThe Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung Jung once interviewed a schizophrenic who claimed the sun had a penis that wavedArticleMay 15Public 0 0

March Newsletter: Area DenialI remember my first scifi convention. I was a little awed, a little Dorothy-opening-the-grayscale-door. I’d married the only girl in collegeArticleApril 22Public 0 0 February Book Reviews: Gen-X Nihilism and GumboGames People Play - by Eric Berne This book doesn’t really have anything to say that you didn’t already know, and its smirking, self-conscioArticleMarch 31Public 0 0

February Newsletter: Mushroom, Mushroom, MushroomThere is a pair of dragons on the crest of the iconostasis of the village church. Posed like cats clawing an armchair, they flank the skullArticleMarch 31$1 tier & up 0 0

Rigid When I Should Be LooseMost important things first: I’m doing an Ask Me Anything for paid subscribers and patrons tomorrow, Saturday the 28th, at 7 PM Bulgaria timArticleMarch 13$1 tier & up 0 0

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