hi thanks for being a patreon a flash
fiction online I'm Anna Yeatts the
publisher of flash fiction online and
today's staff interview is with me roughly
how many readers do you have so this
makes me so proud okay so at last check
the website flash fiction online.com
itself was bringing in over a half
million unique readers every year which
is so exciting but I never been steadily
increasing every year so I think that is
up to be like over forty five forty six
thousand per month is that a lot yeah
that's a lot can you pronounce horror
for horror horror horror or or poor
knocks up not the person who works on
the street horror for poor scary stuff
what equipment do you use to film your
videos so currently at this moment it's
a Canon Rebel T six I which is amazing a
DSLR camera which makes all the
difference in the world and a ring light
I'm not sure what brand it is but I can
leave that down the description it's
below a green screen everybody needs a
green screen which is probably not green
right now if you're watching this
hopefully it's something cool like I
don't know a cityscape or London Bridge
or something I don't know um I do my
editing on a little Mac laptop and then
most of my my video editing is with filmora
or are you the only one at
in producing this videos I would like to
see yes but actually my 14 year old
daughter is way more of a mad genius
when it comes to youtube than I am and
so I'm like could you come look at this
and tell me if it's to cringey she's
like mama okay what is the money that
you make on patreon go to so that my
name may go patreon it goes straight to
the authors really it comes in from
patreon generally on the 1st of the
month and then on the first the month I
turn around directly and out of my
people like out I pay the others so
they're saying thank you very much why
are you always selling things I'm always
selling things because I'm just trying
to pay the bills people how hard is it
to actually get published at flash
fiction online it's actually really hard
to get published a flash picture online
we get thousands of submissions every
month and we buy three original stories
and one reprint every month so if you
run those odds I'm trying to do the math
in my head and it's just not working
right now because I'm staring into the
ring light that's really bright the odds
are not in your favor you've got to get
out of slush pile you I should we get
through the winning round you have to
get through edits and rewrites if we ask
for those yeah it's tough
I'd like to think it's because we're
actually a paying market we're gonna pay
you in cold hard cash now to get a
little bit more personal do you have any
kid I do I have two kids I have a
fourteen-year-old daughter who is
actually helping me with this video
she's interviewing me by the way as
she's the genius behind everything
technical that happens here I flash
fiction online and then I have a seven
year old Sanchez like mama kindly led in
the Zelda with me does that include pets
I have a very old dog her name is Lucy
she's 17 and we need to put her in the
bedroom otherwise she'd be walking
around you could hear her nail clicking
on the floor what genre do you
prefer reading horror what do you write
horror in romance I'm actually going to
grad school right now and I'm on the
romance track because I heard that's
where the money was
what's your favorite book my favorite
book Fight Club but Chuck Palahniuk I can't
say his name Palahniuk the hardest
part of a writer is being on camera
and you have to say words like Chuck
plan yet what's your favorite color red
what's your favorite song
do you even listen to music anyways
favorite movie movie laughs favorite
author Nora Jemisin yeah or Chuck Palahniuk
or george RR martin is this the only job
that you work oh all right I've lost
track of how many jobs I have I think I
have like twelve jobs is this your
favorite job oh yeah of course
as it appears that you're really busy
how much free time do you have
Oh what's every time what's your
astrological sign I'm a virgo what do you
do for fun
Does wine count why do you move your
head so much when you're filling your
videos I don't know I don't know okay
okay get where those like Vice things
like that you like hold wooden and a
watch shop and I'm gonna put it through
the back of the screen and like is it
difficult to film videos because of your
kids and pets yes they're very loud I
love them how do you solve this problem
I lock them away the little cages and
then they shake the bars Mama do we
need to call Child Protective Services
Shh
all right I think that got to all the
questions that I have for you okay
thanks for being a patron of flash
fiction online we really couldn't do
it without you
I have to let my children out
now
