Continue the Chronicles. Support the Archive. Help the stories grow.
Welcome to the Paid Reading Archive: a growing collection of Chronicle continuations, deeper records, author notes, and selected subscriber-only material from across Simon Phillips’s author platform.
This site is built as more than a simple blog. It is an evolving archive of stories, worlds, histories, future records, mythic fragments, author reflections, and novella-linked material. Some pieces are open to every reader. Others begin freely, then continue behind the paid archive for readers who want to go further.
The paid archive exists for readers who enjoy the free Chronicle openings and want access to the deeper continuation of each piece. It also helps sustain the long-form work behind the site: the research, worldbuilding, novella development, Chronicle writing, and independent publishing that shape the wider platform.
How the Paid Reading Archive Works
Many Chronicle entries begin with a free opening section.
That opening is designed to let any reader enter the atmosphere of the piece: a historical moment, a damaged station record, a mythic fragment, a modern account, or the beginning of something stranger beneath the surface.
Where a Chronicle continues behind the paywall, paid readers can carry on into the full continuation.
The structure is simple:
Free readers can read the public opening.
Paid readers can continue into the deeper archive.
The paid continuation may include the fuller Chronicle, deeper records, archive notes, additional context, connected world material, or selected subscriber-only entries tied to the wider novella and Chronicle branches.
The aim is fairness, clarity, and trust. You can explore the site freely before deciding whether the archive is something you want to support.
What Paid Readers Receive
Paid readers receive access to the growing paid side of the WordPress archive, including:
- full Chronicle continuations where a public opening leads into a paid section
- deeper archive material connected to the Chronicle branches
- selected subscriber-only entries linked to the novella worlds
- paid reading added to the WordPress archive over time
- author-side material connected to the long-term development of the site
- a direct way to support Simon Phillips’s independent author platform
This is not a locked door placed across the whole website.
It is a deeper reading layer for those who want more than the public opening.
The free site remains open, active, and useful. The paid archive gives committed readers a way to step further inside.
The Chronicles Inside the Archive
The Paid Reading Archive connects to the four Chronicle branches on the site.
The Forgotten Chronicle
Historical moments, lost places, old records, buried consequences, and stories shaped by memory, survival, and the long shadow of the past.
Paid continuation may include fuller historical Chronicle entries, deeper context, and archive-style reflections connected to the historical branch.
The Future Chronicle
Station records, frontier systems, damaged technology, missing reports, strange signals, and science-fiction accounts from places where human ambition has begun to fail.
Paid continuation may include fuller future records, deeper station material, and selected entries connected to Simon’s science-fiction novella worlds.
The Mythic Chronicle
Ruined cities, strange foundations, mythic records, damaged archives, forgotten powers, and fragments from worlds where old stories still press against the present.
Paid continuation may include deeper mythic records, archive fragments, and connected material from the fantasy side of the author platform.
The Modern Chronicle
Modern unease, human systems, present-day tension, strange events, reflective accounts, and stories that sit closer to the world we recognise.
Paid continuation may include deeper modern records, selected essays, and future paid material connected to this branch as it develops.
Choose Your Support Level
The paid archive currently has two supporter options.
Both give access to the same paid reading archive.
Monthly Supporter
$5/month
For readers who want to support the archive month by month and continue reading paid Chronicle material as it grows.
Yearly Supporter
$50/year
For readers who prefer to support the archive long term at a reduced yearly price.
You receive the same access as the monthly option, with a lower overall yearly cost.
What Remains Free
The paid archive is an added reading layer. It does not close the whole site.
Free readers can still access:
- the homepage
- About page
- Contact page
- novella series pages
- Chronicle landing pages
- free Chronicle openings
- selected full blog posts
- Author Journal posts
- book reviews
- Life in Japan posts
- release announcements
- public updates connected to the novella worlds
The site is designed so readers can explore freely, discover the Chronicles, learn about the novella series, and decide in their own time whether paid access is right for them
A Note from the Author
I built this site as a long-term author platform: a place for my novellas, Chronicles, archive entries, author notes, and connected worlds to live together in one organised space.
Paid support helps me keep that platform independent.
It supports the time needed to write longer Chronicle entries, maintain the archive, build the novella pages, prepare new releases, and continue shaping the worlds behind the fiction.
There is no pressure attached to that support. The free side of the site remains open for readers who want to browse, follow updates, or read the public openings.
For those who want to go deeper, the Paid Reading Archive is the place where the fuller records continue.
Thank you for reading, supporting, and spending time inside these worlds.
