Angels in the Abattoir & The 52/50 project

Musician Thea Gilmore has set up a subscription service where, for £52 per year, a subscriber will get all sorts of things, including a new song every month via email.
This is a different kind of creator-patron paradigm. For one thing, it sets the amount of money upfront.
This is indeed a subscription, a straight sale, not a donation. You don't get anything without subscribing, while some of the artists I have looked at before, are giving their work away and hoping to be reimbursed.
I like Gilmore's music but much of what is offered, the gig and backstage opportunities for instance, only work if you are in the U.K. The hand written lyric sheet doesn't interest me and neither does the set of badges. So I won't be subscribing to this. It is too expensive for what I would be getting.

Peter S. Beagle, author of The Last unicorn has a subscription as well. His is only $25.00 U.S. and he is offering 52 songs/poems, one every week, in print and recorded on an mp3. I only know Beagle for his novels but he too is in financial straits and for such little money, I am much more likely to subscribe to his project.
His e-newsletter, the Raven quotes Neil Gaiman thusly:

For over forty years, Peter S. Beagle has been the gold standard of fantasy, one of the most elegant and genuine writers of fantastic fiction out there. His short stories are jewels. In Japan they declare their finest, most irreplaceable artists national treasures, and if there was any justice in the world Peter S. Beagle would be declared a treasure and be left alone to get on with making magic."

Gaiman also has wonderful things to say about Thea Gilmore's fundraising but it seems to have been on twitter and thus harder to find. But he has paid his £52.

Bone Shop

T.A. Pratt has written a series of books about Marla Mason, Crime boss, Sorceress and twitterer. Someone else linked to her tweets, I read them, liked them and knew I wanted to read more. Pratt has written a variety of things, from poetry to short stories , none of which I've read and none of which is in my local library.

Like others, Pratt is facing hard times and has started serializing a book about Marla's early days. Every Monday, a new chapter goes up here, right next to a very attractive donate button.
He also includes author musings for those of us who like to see behind the screen.

I don't know of any ordinary fiction or non-fiction author who is doing this. I'd be interested to know if it could work for non-fiction. I don't see why not.

My only problem with these serialized novels is that I don't like to wait. I tend to go several weeks ignoring Catherynne M. Valente's book until 2-3 chapters have been posted. Then I will download them and read them all at once.
But that small quibble aside, I think this is a great idea and I hope these authors are being supported as they deserve.