i'm starting a club

I've started a One a Month Club: a simple way to support the work I make online without paywalls, tiers, or gimmicks.

The One a Month Club

Here's something I've been sitting with for a while.

I've been making things online for years now. Writing essays here, publishing fiction, building Road Less Read, tending Lunaseeker. Zines assembled on my kitchen table with scissors and reclaimed paper. Posts written late at night when the ideas stop being polite and start demanding to be let out.

I love this. I love it with a ferocity that sometimes surprises me.

And the honest truth? It costs. Not catastrophically. But consistently. Hosting, domains, time, tools. The small, persistent infrastructure of a creative life.

I've never been comfortable asking for support. There's a voice in my head that says you haven't earned it yet, that the work isn't enough, that asking makes you smaller somehow. I'm sure some of you know that voice. (It lies, by the way. I'm working on that.)

But then I came across what Manuel Moreale wrote about his One a Month Club, and something clicked.

His thinking is simple: no tiers, no gimmicks. If you decide to support, you get everything, regardless of how much you contribute. The minimum is $1 a month - low enough to set and forget, but real enough to matter. The plus part means you can give more if you want to. That's it. No artificial scarcity. No perks withheld. Just people who believe in the work, choosing to say so.

I adore this model. It treats support as an act of kindness rather than a transaction. It says: we're in this together.

So I'm doing it.

I've set up my own One a Month Club. If you've ever read something here and felt less alone, found a book through Road Less Read that shifted something in you, or wandered through Lunaseeker and stayed longer than you expected... this is how you can help me keep going.

What do you get? Everything I make. The essays, the book notes, the fiction, the zines when I manage to post about them. The same things you'd get anyway, because I don't believe in locking words behind gates. You also get my genuine, lasting gratitude. Which I know doesn't pay anyone's bills, but I mean it.

What does your support do? It keeps the lights on. It pays for zacharykai.net and roadlessread.com and lunaseeker.com to exist. It carves out a little more time for me to write instead of scrambling. It's the difference between this being a thing I do on the margins and a thing I can build toward.

I'm not going to pretend I've got it all figured out. I'm a neurodivergent twenty-something in Australia trying to make a life out of making things. Some months are easier than others. The internet is my livelihood and my lifeline, and I want to keep showing up here for a long time.

So. If you want to join the club: there's a support page linked below. $1 a month. Or more, if you're so inclined. Or nothing at all, because the work will always be here either way.

Thank you for reading. Genuinely. The fact that you're here means more than I know how to say.

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