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Oh, other than – and it is a huge bonus, relying on whether or not you really take pleasure in my posts or not – the truth that you’ll be seeing my emails extra typically and extra persistently any further. As soon as per week, and all the time on a Tuesday.
Clearly if you happen to can’t stand receiving my posts by e-mail then this information will devastate you and it’s an absolute necessity that you just discover the unsubscribe button on this submit 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 normal 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. Greatest magnificence buys and e-book suggestions and journey stuff and all types of helpful bits and items, interspersed with a few of the extra ridiculous life updates and observations that burst forth from my fertile thoughts.
It’ll really feel like 2013, yet again. Besides that it’ll be coming from a barely completely different place.
Earlier than you start to panic in regards to the olden days and feeling as if all the pieces is being uprooted; this web site isn’t going anyplace. You’ll nonetheless be capable to drop in for a pootle about within the archives and most of the new issues I publish might be right here, too; however the majority of my writing will now be on Substack.
Why? Properly, now we have to maneuver with the instances, child! There’s a complete submit about this – the primary submit in our new residence, really, and it will likely be arriving in your inbox quickly – however in essence, if you happen to make content material this present day then you really want a platform to submit it on. So that individuals see it. Except you’re a devoted magnificence weblog, otherwise you submit recipes, or issues that most people are prone to Google and hunt out, it’s very tough 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 exact query is inside this submit.)
I really feel totally lucky to have such an enormous readership right here, however numerous my writing isn’t the type of stuff that’s essentially very searchable on-line. It’s there for enjoyment before everything. And it might be pretty if extra individuals might take pleasure in it.
I’ve been trying right into a platform for my writing for some time and have chosen Substack. It simply looks like a very pretty 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 even 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 needed to create and use.
And there’s positively a pull, for me, in that I don’t should construct or keep any of that platform – simply go online and spend 100% of my time writing issues, fairly 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 won’t, 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 obtainable utterly freed from cost. My new weekly submit is totally free. In case you are receiving this submit by e-mail then you’re routinely subscribed – I’ve merely moved my present subscriber record over to the brand new supplier. You don’t must do something in any respect – properly carried out, congratulations, be excited for the years forward!
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Proper. This isn’t goodbye, it’s an enormous hey once more. Good day once more to common posts, to extra writing, to a bit of 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 therefore a few years and have seen me via so many various weblog eras and iterations. That is going to be the very best one but and I couldn’t consider higher individuals to deliver alongside for the journey.
You’ll get your first e-mail from the brand new residence at round 10am BST tomorrow – if you happen to don’t see it then take a look in your spam filter, and if it is in spam then be sure to mark it as “not”. Till then, my loyal associates!