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My newsletter is moving to Substack!
Starting next week, my weekly email will look a little different. It will also come from a different email address. So, if you don't see your missive on Friday at 9am...check your spam folder! My name will still be attached, and you'll also see my new Substack title:
Booked in Brooklyn
Why am I starting a Substack? A couple reasons.
One, it's easier to build community and reach new readers, because other people with Substacks can recommend their favorite creators and re-share posts that resonate with them. Readers can comment directly on posts, as well. (You'll still be able to email me back, too!)
Two, Substack gives you a home page with an archive of your past newsletters. This saves me a step; right now, I have to upload my newsletters to my website one by one as blog posts in order to maintain an archive. I'll keep the "Blog" tab on my website for now, since those posts and newsletters go way, way back, but moving forward, you'll find my newsletters saved on my Substack.
As I've been setting up my Substack this week, I've also been thinking about what I write and the format I use. The contents of my newsletter will not change! I'm still going to write about the craft of writing, my creative process, the books I'm reading and those I'm reading with my daughter, and what's going on in my life at the moment that feels meaningful. You'll still get updates on my books, sneak peeks into future projects, and access to fun subscriber-only giveaways.
However, I am planning to make one tweak to my format: instead of sharing what I'm reading, watching, listening to, etc every single week, I'm going to try making the last newsletter of each month a wrap-up of favorites. I've realized that sometimes, I have a million things to recommend, and other weeks, it's hard to come up with anything to fill that space. By making this a monthly feature, I'll be able to curate a better list to share with you all.
Please let me know if you have any issues with next week's newsletter! And remember, you don't have to resubscribe; I will transfer over my subscriber list. Fingers crossed, this will be a quick and painless transition.
What I'm:
Reading: This is one of those weeks where it's harder to make a recommendation! I started a book that didn't grab me, so about a third of the way in, I set it aside. Now, I'm listening to an audiobook that someone else recommended. It's a southern-set romance, and I'm enjoying it so far...but I'm not sure yet if I want to tell you to read it! So what I will recommend is a cute early reader series my daughter and I discovered at Barnes & Noble recently: Unicorn & Yeti by Heather Ayris Burnell. The stories are sweet and the illustrations by Hazel Quintanilla are adorable.
Watching: The new Indiana Jones movie was actually quite fun!
Eating: Homemade chocolate-chip banana bread. Yum!
Loving: I get to do an author visit for the first-grade classes at my kid's school in October! You'll hear more about that when it happens. In the meantime, here's my cutie with Madison Morris.
