When you subscribe to my weblog posts by electronic mail then you definitely would possibly discover one thing barely completely different in regards to the subsequent one, arriving tomorrow: it’s being despatched by a brand new supplier. There’s completely nothing to fret about as a result of – for you – there isn’t any different change.
Oh, other than – and this can be a large bonus, relying on whether or not you really get pleasure from my posts or not – the truth that you’ll be seeing my emails extra typically and extra persistently any further. As soon as every week, and at all times on a Tuesday.
Clearly in case you can’t stand receiving my posts by electronic mail then this information will devastate you and it’s an absolute necessity that you just discover the unsubscribe button on this put up 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 standard weblog posts. We’re going again to the times (and the title) of A Mannequin Recommends – unbiased evaluations 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 among the extra ridiculous life updates and observations that burst forth from my fertile thoughts.
It’ll really feel like 2013, once more. 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 every little thing is being uprooted; this web site isn’t going anyplace. You’ll nonetheless have the ability to drop in for a pootle about within the archives and lots of the new issues I publish can be right here, too; however the majority of my writing will now be on Substack.
Why? Nicely, we’ve to maneuver with the occasions, child! There’s an entire put up about this – the primary put up in our new house, really, and will probably be arriving in your inbox quickly – however in essence, in case you make content material these days then you really want a platform to put up it on. So that individuals see it. Until you’re a devoted magnificence weblog, otherwise you put up recipes, or issues that most of the people are prone to Google and hunt out, it’s very troublesome to get new eyes in your content material. I imply, how many individuals will actually be Googling “what does a merman’s penis seem like?” (The speculative reply to that individual query is inside this put up.)
I really feel totally lucky to have such an enormous readership right here, however loads of my writing isn’t the form of stuff that’s essentially very searchable on-line. It’s there for enjoyment at the start. And it could be beautiful if extra folks may get pleasure from it.
I’ve been wanting right into a platform for my writing for some time and have chosen Substack. It simply looks as if a extremely beautiful place to be, the place it’s simple to remark and reply to feedback, simple to reshare different folks’s work and to construct up nice communities. You can too depart voicenotes, written notes and video content material in your followers and maintain reside video streams: it’s as if somebody has delved inside my mind and designed the precise platform that I’ve at all times wished to create and use.
And there’s undoubtedly a pull, for me, in that I don’t need to construct or keep any of that platform – simply go browsing and spend 100% of my time writing issues, relatively than spending half of my on-line life updating web site plugins or making an attempt to work out why the hell feedback can solely be WRITTEN IN CAPITAL LETTERS.
You’ll see (otherwise you may not, I haven’t absolutely labored out the settings but!) that there are numerous methods to make use of Substack. Some folks cost for his or her content material, some folks cost for all of it on there, others have their newsletters accessible utterly freed from cost. My new weekly put up is totally free. In case you are receiving this put up by electronic mail then you might be routinely subscribed – I’ve merely moved my current subscriber checklist over to the brand new supplier. You don’t have to do something in any respect – nicely carried out, congratulations, be excited for the years forward!
If you don’t want to obtain my future ramblings then please unsubscribe by clicking on the hyperlink on this electronic mail – it’s proper on the backside. When you ever change your thoughts, otherwise you hear folks whispering about that good A Mannequin Recommends on Substack – “it’s like listening to Woman Whistledown!” – then simply search me out and re-subscribe. There will even be an enormous banner on the high of my web site with a hyperlink to take you to my posts, in case you get actually, actually misplaced.
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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 return to how issues had 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 by means of so many various weblog eras and iterations. That is going to be one of the best one but and I couldn’t consider higher folks to carry alongside for the experience.
You’ll get your first electronic mail from the brand new house at round 10am BST tomorrow – in case you 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 buddies!
