For those who subscribe to my weblog posts by electronic mail then you definitely may discover one thing barely completely different concerning the subsequent one, arriving tomorrow: it’s being despatched by a brand new supplier. There’s completely nothing to fret about as a result of – for you – there isn’t a different change.
Oh, other than – and this can be a huge bonus, relying on whether or not you really get pleasure from my posts or not – the truth that you’ll be seeing my emails extra typically and extra constantly any more. As soon as per week, and all the time on a Tuesday.
Clearly for those who can not stand receiving my posts by electronic mail then this information will devastate you and it’s an absolute necessity that you just discover the unsubscribe button on this put up proper now after which click on on it. For everybody else, this could all come as good and thrilling information. As a result of it’s good and thrilling: we’re returning to an period of standard weblog posts. We’re going again to the times (and the title) of A Mannequin Recommends – unbiased critiques and barely unhinged takes on the world out of your favorite erstwhile model. Finest magnificence buys and ebook suggestions and journey stuff and all kinds of helpful bits and items, interspersed with among the extra ridiculous life updates and observations that burst forth from my fertile thoughts.
It’ll really feel like 2013, another time. Besides that it’ll be coming from a barely completely different place.
Earlier than you start to panic concerning the olden days and feeling as if every part is being uprooted; this web site isn’t going wherever. You’ll nonetheless be capable to drop in for a pootle about within the archives and lots of the new issues I publish might be right here, too; however the majority of my writing will now be on Substack.
Why? Nicely, now we have to maneuver with the occasions, child! There’s a complete put up about this – the primary put up in our new house, really, and it will likely be arriving in your inbox quickly – however in essence, for those who make content material this present day then you really want a platform to put up it on. So that folks see it. Until you’re a devoted magnificence weblog, otherwise you put up recipes, or issues that most of the people are prone to Google and hunt out, it’s very troublesome to get new eyes in your content material. I imply, how many individuals will actually be Googling “what does a merman’s penis appear like?” (The speculative reply to that specific query is inside this put up.)
I really feel totally lucky to have such an enormous readership right here, however lots of my writing isn’t the kind of stuff that’s essentially very searchable on-line. It’s there for enjoyment initially. And it will be beautiful if extra individuals might get pleasure from it.
I’ve been wanting right into a platform for my writing for some time and have chosen Substack. It simply looks like a extremely beautiful place to be, the place it’s straightforward to remark and reply to feedback, straightforward to reshare different individuals’s work and to construct up nice communities. You can too depart voicenotes, written notes and video content material to your followers and maintain dwell video streams: it’s as if somebody has delved inside my mind and designed the precise platform that I’ve all the time wished to create and use.
And there’s positively a pull, for me, in that I don’t need to construct or preserve any of that platform – simply go browsing and spend 100% of my time writing issues, relatively than spending half of my on-line life updating web site plugins or attempting to work out why the hell feedback can solely be WRITTEN IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
You’ll see (otherwise you may not, I haven’t totally labored out the settings but!) that there are numerous methods to make use of Substack. Some individuals cost for his or her content material, some individuals cost for all of it on there, others have their newsletters accessible fully freed from cost. My new weekly put up is totally free. In case you are receiving this put up by electronic mail then you might be robotically subscribed – I’ve merely moved my current subscriber checklist over to the brand new supplier. You don’t must do something in any respect – nicely performed, congratulations, be excited for the years forward!
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Proper. This isn’t goodbye, it’s an enormous good day once more. Howdy once more to common posts, to extra writing, to a bit return to how issues have been earlier than shortform content material took over the web and all of us developed the eye span of a gnat. See you subsequent week. An enormous, real heartfelt thanks to those that have adopted for thus a few years and have seen me by so many alternative weblog eras and iterations. That is going to be one of the best one but and I couldn’t consider higher individuals to carry alongside for the experience.
You’ll get your first electronic mail from the brand new house at round 10am BST tomorrow – for those who don’t see it then take a look in your spam filter, and if it is in spam then ensure you mark it as “not”. Till then, my loyal associates!