IMPORTANT: I HAVE MOVED AWAY FROM SUBSTACK TO MY OWN WEBSITE AND I HAVE A BOOK COMING OUT
Most of you hopefully know this but in early August last year I moved my newsletter from Substack to my own website via Ghost. Unfortunately when Substack promise that you can leave and take all your subscribers with you they fail to mention that none of the subscribers who clicked “read in app only” will any longer receive your newsletter. Those readers will simply think you have vanished. This has cost me much stress and money over the last ten months and I ended up having to go back into Substack and write a piece about it, in an attempt to clear the mess up and get the message to those subscribers who thought I’d evaporated. It also meant, quite painfully, that a lot of people who would have wanted to find out I had a new book out actually didn’t.
I’m keeping my Substack account open for now, with no paying subscriber option, solely to try to get the message (including via this post) to the last of the in-app only subscribers that I’ve moved, so please note that the place to sign up for my newsletters is here on my website www.tom-cox.com. All paying subscribers from the era when I was on Substack will be able to read all the writing there and you can log in and check/update your account using the email you originally used to subscribe on Substack. I’ve also kept quite a bit of the writing free and, since moving, introduced two low rate subscription levels, in an attempt to not exclude as few people as possible who are keen to read all my writing but are on a limited budget.
It’s now precisely a week until my third novel Everything Will Swallow You is published in paperback. You can read an extract from it here. And if you pre-order it from Blackwell’s you get FREE international delivery AND I’ll be heading up to the Blackwell’s warehouse next week to sign every copy they have (plus a fair bit of my backlist).
Apologies if you received two emails from me today. As I said, it’s just part of my last attempts to clear up a mess caused by Substack. There are still a lot of people in the dark about it and hopefully this message might find a few more of them. And if you are one of those who thought I’d vanished please subscribe to my writing HERE, and not on Substack.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Tom
I have the same sitch (my own customized site, book), but no one goes to “blogs” anymore, in my experience, at least. Blogged since 2000 or so (all if it intentionally gone because as I say, “Eh, I can make more crap for no one to read,” heh). I would “rather” write my stuff on my own site and have full control over all things including subscriber list. But I’ve tried getting people over there and had no luck. Hope you do and thanks for the heads-up re: the SS “quirks.”
How are you liking the experience of being on your own turf with your own website? That's a big item on my to-do list.