So, yesterday I transferred the GenrePunk Ninja newsletter and the associated blog to their new homes. I fired up the new system and sent out a new update, and… well, the long-dreaded “something is going to go wrong with all these changes” feeling finally came true. 

About half of the subscribers lost access to the newsletter and the sign-up forms no longer work on the GenrePunk.Ninja homepage. 

So, less “wrong” and more “disasterous” on the GenrePunk Ninja front.

Most of the methods of fixing it will mean upgrading tools I’d planned to use to paid plans. This is particularly ironic given yesterday’s newsletter was all about the complications of covering expenses that occur every month/year when your writing income is asynchronus and slow building.

So I’ve implemented some quick fixes.

I stopped using Patreon in mid 2024 because I’d overcommitted myself and had some quibbles with the platform. This new iteration is very stripped back–there’s a free tier and a “chip in a few bucks to support Peter” tier, and they’re both exactly the same. There’s no expectation to pay for any of this.

Patreon also now cross-posts everythign to wordpress, which means content is no longer siloed away into their platform and doing me no good elsewhere. Patreon will also email you new installments as they go live, if you prefer to cover things in email. 

This one gives you a copy of Loose Threads, the writing book I wrote by accident when I got every into Threads back in January of 2024 and wrote about 20,000 words of writing and publishing related advice on the platform. 

It was the month after I submitted my PhD, so I was feeling punchy.

This one will put you into the new Newsletter system, but isn’t yet connected to a welcoming sequence, so it will basically pick up right where you are now.

RSS is still a thing and the WordPress app allows you to subscribe to feeds (and even subscribe via email). The whole point of GenrePunk Ninja was putting resources out into the world that weren’t siloed away or hidden behind paywalls – the newsletter was just the delivery system.

I got lax about posting things there because my old blog was clunky and 18 years old, but one of the perks of merging the GenrePunk and Brain Jar Press stores is the freedom to use my personal website as a blog again.

The new design has just gone live and there’s a stack of GenrePunk Ninja stuff on there–including a growing backlogue of writing posts from Patreon over the years.

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