Since the last issue of Full Send came out on January 1, 2023, I've moved, twice. I met a girl at a party and (later) married her. I now own a house and a dog. I meet people for coffee and I have friends over for dinner. This project of building a sweet little life for myself in Oklahoma has kept me busy. Too busy, up until now, to add a newsletter back into it.

When Full Send ended, I said "I don’t know what the next thing will be. I want it to be another newsletter, because I love this form, but I don’t know when or where. I’ll think of something. I’ll let you know. I have your email."

This is me keeping that promise. Septology comes out one week from today. You can sign up to receive it right here; I have not automatically put you on the list.

I am not here on business; I am here because it is fun to go on the computer. With that in mind, I will not charge you any money and I won't track opens and clicks, either. What you do with your own e-mails is none of my concern.

I can't give you a sample to read before you sign up, but I can tell you what I'm trying to work toward and what I'm trying to avoid:

My favorite newsletters are unironic and sincere. That has not always been my strength, but I would like it to be. I dislike an over-familiarity that assumes the reader is invested in the newsletter as the author is. I dislike polemics or essays that follow the pattern of "Everybody thinks X is good, but it's bad," or vice-versa. I am not interested in following the latest in pop culture and politics. I like when the author talks about what they're working on and share their influences. I like saying “Do you see how this connects to this? I wonder if they realized they were doing it.” My goal is not to solve the world’s problems, but rather to tell you if I’ve read anything good lately.

Septology will come out on the 7th of each month, a dispatch of what I have been seeing and working on at the computer.

Hope to see you next week. If not, you always have my email.

TH
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