Welcome to Views From Other Planes
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Welcome to Views From Other Planes
So, if you’re receiving this, then at some point you subscribed to my author newsletter.
Oops.
As you can tell from the two posts a year, I don’t do traditional author newsletters. I don’t do traditional author outfits, either, as you can tell. I thought I was going to do a wonderful monthly newsletter talking about everything I’m doing.
That doesn’t work for me. I always feel as if I’m not doing anything interesting enough to talk about. I also feel as if I’m shouting into a void.
Meanwhile, I started a blog on Medium. Then I started a second blog…okay, it was probably a third, Views From Other Planes. And that I could do! I write book reviews, movie reviews, TV show episode reviews. That’s easy! I’m talking about people other than me, for one thing, although I’m trying to get better at talking about me.
Unfortunately, it’s not working at another level. Medium has made some changes lately. They’ve taken away the three free articles a month for people who don’t subscribe, which reduces reach. And they’ve changed the algorithm. Their new algorithm adjusts how much you get paid.
It doesn’t like me. It doesn’t like me to the call of…well, I won’t give exact figures, but I’m earning about 1/5th of the already low amount I was making.
So…the little author brain started churning. What if I combined the two? And what if I moved it to a platform that allows me to paywall the really meaty posts…don’t worry! I’m not going to ask you all for money unless you want to give it. No pressure or obligation.
I think this will work better for me. And I absolutely understand if you all unsubscribe because you didn’t know you were in danger of being added to a review blog. That’s also an author newsletter because I’m absolutely going to give you all release announcements and if you peek behind the paywall, perhaps the occasional chapter or two of a WIP. That might be a while because I am deep in editing right now!
But I hope you all stick around. Not only that, I hope you all bring your friends.
To People Finding This On Substack
Hi! I’m Jennifer R. Povey. I write science fiction, fantasy, and horror. I’ve been published in Analog, Daily Science Fiction, anthologies from Flame Tree Press and Zombies Need Brains, and a bunch of other places. I self-publish my novels.
I also write book, TV show, and movie reviews. Those will be posted to this newsletter without a paywall (because I’m not going to review some poor author’s book and put the review behind a paywall, that’s rude).
Behind the paywall, I hope to provide longer analysis and more meaty stuff, excerpts from my WIPs, and…we’ll see what I come up with. I don’t make promises, because if you read the first part, you’ll see how well some of them have worked *makes sheep face*.
But I hope some of you will take a risk on me and I know the reviews will happen. Starting this week. I have a couple more queued to Medium that I don’t want to take down.
(By the way, no, I currently won’t accept your review copies. My to be read pile is already completely ridiculous. If that changes, I’ll make a post).