Full Moon Discount
Thanks to you, as of May 2025, The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain has reached readers in 38 countries and received excellent Reviews.
The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain is free to read up to Chapter 9 where I have inserted a $5/month paywall, less than the price of an eBook. If you want to contribute more, let the monthly plan continue, select the $30 annual plan or become a Founding Member. Whatever plan you choose, please share the book with your networks.
I also have a PowerPoint presentation for sharing with trade associations, patrons of the arts, and the movers and shakers in the political and media landscape. With your help, I will be able to create audio versions in multiple languages.
While Substack and eBooks are wonderful, we do love reading real books while swinging in the hammock on a summer day or curled up in a big leather chair next to a winter fire.
So, for all you lovers of real books, The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain is available in paperback, hardcover and eBook formats and I offer a monthly Full Moon Discount during the week around the full moon at Barnes & Noble Press and Amazon. Upcoming full moons in 2025 include July 10, August 9 and September 7.
My Full Moon Discount is generous—$15 off the hardcover (discounted to $24.75) and $10 off the paperback (discounted to $14.75).
The net to the author for hardcover and paperback sales is already meager so why am I taking it even lower, leaving me with virtually no profit on Full Moon Discount sales?
The answer is simple math combined with faith in my readers. I trust that many of you will transfer—the $15 hardcover and $10 paperback Full Moon Discounts or whatever you’d like to contribute—from the coffers of the Big Booksellers to me, the writer, via platforms with higher payouts as detailed in this chart.
To ensure a greater percentage of your contribution ends up in my bank account and not with the Big Booksellers, use Substack with its 85% payout to the writer.
PayPal (thplattbooks@gmail.com) and Buy Me A Coffee deliver 95% returns.
If you want me to receive 100% of your contribution—no fees—send a tip via Ko-Fi or use Venmo (thplatt). Thanks!
I hope, when you howl at the full moon each month, you’ll remember The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain, share the story with your family and friends and help support the person who wrote it.
Thank you!
T.H. PLATT
The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain is a 100% reader-supported literary work. Your contributions allow the author to continue researching and writing, to translate the work into multiple languages, to create audioBooks and take this story from book to film. Thank you!