Perhaps it’s spring and that feeling of rebirth and renewal, of contemporary begins, it fosters in us all.
On April 14, I start my third yr on Substack. It’s virtually a couple of yr, across the identical spring time, since I instituted my final adjustments right here at Homo Vitruvius.
All of it started in spring.
I’m a believer in change, in being reborn. We actually don’t have any alternative, nevertheless we could idiot ourselves. I’ve lived greater than lengthy sufficient to know nothing stays the identical. It’s the reverse of the frequent maxim that’s really true: the extra issues appear to remain the identical, the extra they modify.
That mentioned, the adjustments this time are usually not all that nice, however I believed I’d take the time this week to allow you to all know of them and shine a light-weight on what’s coming.
I’m taking a inventive break this week to focus on the final, third half – a while in arriving – of the concluding chapter of my memoir, my “mental and religious accounting of id,” Motive for Being within the World (a primary draft composed earlier than your eyes on Substack).
That may seem subsequent week.
The next week, I’ll introduce the serialization of my play What We Have been Considering Of, a stage adaptation of my prize-winning screenplay that was, alas, by no means produced as a movie.
Then, the subsequent week, the play begins its weekly, 13-part serialization.
Behind the scenes, briefly kind, I’ve a assessment essay showing later this month in The Metropolitan Evaluate on Katie Kitamura, whose newest novel, Audition, was printed in April. A noirish flash fiction, “A Shot within the Darkish,” is scheduled to publish on-line throughout the summer season. I’ve memoir into account at different publications, and I’m engaged on two longer quick tales I’ll attempt to publish off Substack.
In longer kind, I in fact have Motive for Being within the World to take via additional drafts. Longtime Vitruvians know I’m within the center – 69,000 phrases to date – of a novel, The Dream of Don Juan de Cartagena, in regards to the Ferdinand Magellan expedition, and I actually started that novel in excited interruption of one other novel, a California noir set within the state’s Central Valley. It, too, an adaptation of an honored however unproduced screenplay, They Referred to as It Paradise is my rapid lengthy kind mission to finish.
Extra instantly, I’ve made adjustments, now efficient, to the subscription ranges for Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat. As you possibly can learn beneath, they’re geared toward preserving the fundamental worth of a free subscription for these at that stage, reducing the monetary bar of entry to a paid subscription, and respecting the worth of my archive of writing.
Please be at liberty as all the time to remark and ask questions beneath. I’ll see you subsequent week!
SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS
Free Subscriptions: Every little thing I publish on Homo Vitruvius and on my second Substack, American Samizdat, is free to all for the week of its publication. There isn’t any paid subscriber-only writing. You would possibly consider that week as akin to the time spent in a bookstore studying what you possibly can earlier than, and even with out, shopping for. I wish to be learn. I must be learn. I say in locations throughout Homo Vitruvius that you learn; subsequently, the author exists. I imply it. I’m a lone voice within the wind with out you. I’m completely happy to your eyes and ears alone in the event you can’t afford to pay, and I’m deeply rewarded listening to from you within the feedback. I must attempt to assist make a residing from my writing, although, as all of us want revenue, so in the event you can afford to pay one thing for what I supply, I’ve tried to make it inexpensive so that you can do it.
Month-to-month Paid Subscriptions: That is the true discount: simply $2 per 30 days.
For that quantity, the month-to-month subscriber positive factors entry to my full 2+ yr archive of Homo Vitruvius writing. That’s a major quantity of my life’s work. I don’t suppose anybody believes that must be free, however it prices solely that $2 to achieve entry to it for the month. I hope you suppose that’s a real worth. As a bonus, on request, I’ll ship month-to-month subscribers a digital model of my 2021 poetry assortment Ready for Phrase. It prices me nothing however a bit time to ship it to you, and I wish to be learn. I’ll be honored if you wish to learn it.
Annual Paid Subscriptions: Additionally a great deal: now simply $40 per yr.
You’ll notice that opposite to what’s ordinary, the month-to-month subscription prices much less on a yearly foundation than the annual. Thait’s as a result of I’m making an attempt to decrease the barrier of entry to paid subscriptions as a lot as appears cheap. In case you can afford the extra $16 per yr, I’d admire it if you buy the annual subscription, which is a selected gesture of appreciation. In return, along with what month-to-month subscriptions achieve, for annual subscribers there are
· Signed arduous copies of Ready for Phrase and Footnote accessible for buy.
· 3 reward subscriptions yearly at half the usual price (solely $20).
· For fellow Substack writers, 1 month per quarter (4X) screen-top promotion on request of your stack, web site, or e book as a thanks to your help of a fellow author.
Sustaining Patron subscriptions: $125 per yr.
For hundreds of years, patrons of the humanities have helped maintain artists of their careers, together with writers, by financially supporting them when a safe, dependable revenue from the work of inventive creation was a problem to realize. The apply nonetheless exists in fashionable occasions, although extra typically for writers that sustenance comes from educating careers, because it did for me for over thirty years, although as typically as not, the educating obtained in the best way of the writing. For many who can afford it and who worth my work sufficient to do it, the sustaining patron subscription is accessible.
$125 is now the prompt quantity. I deeply admire all who can and do help me on the full stage. Thanks, all the time. Nevertheless, the greenback quantity for sustaining patrons is versatile. It have to be larger than the annual subscription value stage, however in the event you’d wish to help me as a patron (thanks!) however really feel extra snug financially at a stage decrease than full value, you have got that possibility (and nonetheless my thanks).
The one-time at a time expression of thanks.
Some individuals are dedication phobic. (I see you.) Thanks. Come once more. 😊
Poet. Storyteller. Dramatist. Essayist. Artificer.
“Not simply phrases in regards to the concepts however the phrases themselves.”
AJA
