substack – Moe Lane

The Revised and somewhat expanded ‘Audition’ is up on Patreon.

I was going to send this out to be sold somewhere, but: there’s nowhere to send it to. Novelettes and novellas are the bastard children of the writing world anyway, and all the paying venues are drowning in a sea of slush piles overflowing with AI popslop. Patreon is where the stories get sold, now. It’s all about the subscriptions.

So. Tell your friends!

Moe Lane

PS: I’m giving serious consideration to expanding my Substack to include reprints of some of the stuff found here. I don’t know if I want to, though. Or if I want to create paywalled posts for said Substack, in addition to the free posts I do now over there. It’s a tough question for me.

I need some information about Substack.

Specifically, does it allow you to attach files, and/or have an archive of saved files? How do people using paid subscriptions handle PDFs attachments? Can it be done via Dropbox, or is there something inside Substack itself?

Hopefully these are just academic questions. Alas, hope is not a plan.

My Mailchimp newsletter is dead. Long live the Substack newsletter!

The Substack one’s the one I’m updating anyway. Honestly, this is long overdue. Click on the link below to sign up for a free newsletter that will tell what I’ve written, what I’m writing, and where I’m going to be!

Patreon! And Substack! (Subscribe to both! The former is a buck! The latter one is free!)

I was given the very useful advice today to remind people to sign up to things like my Substack, which functions much like a mailing list and definitely does allow people to keep track of what I’m doing professionally as a writer. And my Patreon hungers for backers! So. Substack! Patreon! Both full of useful stuff!

Reminder: I have a Substack newsletter!

That’s another thing I’m going to be developing in 2024, I think. Right now the Substack is there as a monthly newsletter, but I could do more with it. I kind of have to do more with it, although I’m still working out what. Gotta make your own hustle, these days.

Put something up on Substack.

I dunno what to call it. Not really fiction, not really commentary. I may be even the only one who finds it a little worrisome.

https://t.co/Vx7I6yrCGN
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) April 15, 2023

My Substack roundup for January is up.

I think this is what the Substack is going to be used for, mostly. It’s convenient, and not tied to this particular website.

Moe Lane Writes Books!: What Moe Lane did in January 2023 https://t.co/GPFGkIv2Uh
— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) February 1, 2023

Doing the Substack thing.

Not a paid Substack, though. As I’m imagining it, I’ll use it as a clearinghouse for some of the stuff I write regularly. That should be useful, right?

Moe Lane Writes Books!: What Moe Lane did in November 2022.https://t.co/yGC6tUvMQQ
— Moe Lane (@Ogiel23) (@moelane) December 1, 2022

I dunno what to do with this Substack.

I put it up, on the random chance that Twitter might blow up and I wanted to lock in the name. It looks like Twitter is not blowing up, though – but does this thing have any use anyway? Lots of people use Substack, but I’m not really on fire about it. Although possibly I should be.

Suggestions welcome.

#DavesCarIDService Now available on Substack!

I know some of you don’t like Twitter – well, nobody likes Twitter; we just endure it – but if you felt bad that you were missing Iowahawk’s almost preternatural ability to tell you what the car was in that snapshot of your Aunt Mabel, well: he’s got a Substack now. $5 a month, $40 a year; and Lord, but the number of people out there upset that Substack even exists! And they’re all the kind of people you take some pleasure in seeing upset, too. Gives an extra little frisson to the whole affair.

But it’s still mostly about the car IDs.