After much back and forth, I've decided to divorce my newsletter provider (MailChimp), and I'm taking the house, car and everything else. I've never loved the interface - maybe I'm not techie or smart enough, but I kind of put up with it because I wasn't sending that many newsletters anyway. Then they decided to start charging a chunk of cash for the pleasure of sending 2-3 newsletters per year (well over £100/year), so I finally made the jump.
As we speak, I'm trying to import the spreadsheet with contacts to Substack, but seems a human needs to review it, and with it being the holidays and all, I'm happy to be patient. This isn't the time of year to get pushy with anyone.
So the new address is Aleksandr Voinov | Substack (or find me manually at @aleksandrvoinov). If you're on my mailinglist, you should soon get joined, but if you want to be 100% sure you'll join me there, feel free to subscribe there. Substack is functionally very similar to a mailinglist (you get emails), but there are other things I really like, such as the ability to do polls and comment, and actually have a community. So yes, you can message me (or engage with other readers) and I'll respond.
There's an option to put up a paywall and have a paid subscription. It does look better than the same option on Patreon, but I won't make people pay to access what will essentially be an author newsletter and a kind of more frequent blog. I might offer a paid tier for actual writing/chapters and maybe add my ebooks to it (pre-release), but I expect 98% of all posts will be free and remain free.
So the big news is that I'm giving this whole author thing another shot. I'll tell you on Substack what I got up to and what I did the last year and where we're going from here. The short version: three books lined up for next year, my financial/professional situation has changed, and everything will be different next year.
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