Hello my darlings,
This newsletter has been a bit absent recently as you may or may not have noticed. This is because I have overwhelmed myself with work in an attempt to not think too much about the fact that I am still sitting in my apartment, unjabbed, a full year later.
I wanted to send you all a little update, because I have been reading a lot and I do have a few half finished drafts to send to you, but for the past few weeks it has not felt good or moral to send them here. I have already paused payment for those of you who pay both because I do not feel good charging for a newsletter that comes so infrequently, and because the decisions and commentary made by top brass at Substack lately have been questionable at best. It’s time for me to go.
This newsletter will be moving platforms and shifting very soon.On your end, nothing will change. The newsletter will continue to come, just from a different place. This will not be my first rodeo of this kind.
Many of you have been here with me inside my brain since the TinyLetter days. Last week marks two wonderful years talking about books here with you all, and it’s time to do a bit of a reevaluation. My career is in a totally different place: I have a book coming out in June; I co-own an independent media site; and I’m feeling more secure than ever. That means there’s probably space for this newsletter to shift into something else, and I have some good and exciting ideas for what that might be.
Ultimately, I’m a child of blogs. I had a xanga and a livejournal and a Tumblr and a blogspot and a A03 page. It’s important to me that no matter where my career goes, I have somewhere I can write where the only oversight is mine. This newsletter isn’t dying, but it will reemerge something a little different, a little more open, and definitely somewhere else.
K