Giveaways Launched! 🎉

Almost exactly 3.5 years after the beta programme began, our Giveaways platform is finally officially live. 🥳

As part of the launch I set up a proper marketing site for publishers and authors:

I need to create something similar for Plus one day!

From Considering Leaving to Plus

This was a fun journey:

Distribution, Deletion, and Bugs

I finally launched the reviews distribution and filtering I’ve been working on for a few weeks now.

But in the process I seem to have introduced a bug — or maybe massively exacerbated a pre-existing one (still figuring it out…) — where users semi-regularly get frozen or blank pages. I’ve got soo much stuff to do across life and work but trying to resolve this is taking up all of my time at the moment. 😭

In other news, users can now swipe to delete notifications in our mobile apps.

WOW: A Book-Inspired Workout

I asked Jacinda to make me some conditioning workouts and she only went and named the first one after my favourite read of 2025. 🥹

This was extra special as Jacinda isn’t a book girlie herself, but she knew this would be a touching surprise!

Give this workout a go, especially if you’re a fan of Krakauer’s Into Thin Air. Details are in the description. Let me know how you get on. Can you beat my score? 😁

Extra Subscriber Emails

I’ve been talking about wanting to do more for my paying readers. I surveyed them a few weeks back but only got one response, so I decided I’m just going to start sending out an extra email in the weeks when I don’t send this one and see what happens.

I imagine it starting out as a more “dispatches”/bullet-point list-style thing and we’ll see how it evolves.

There are links at the bottom of this email to subscribe if you’re curious as to what I come up with! 👀

What I’m Reading

Hopefully finishing Jazz and moving straight onto Morrison’s Paradise to read alongside The Stacks Book Club.

Have a great week,

Nadia