History is full of juicy gossip.
Forget your high school history book. The weird, the petty, and the spicy is woven into the fabric of human history. And it’s all laid out in our mail. Snail Mail Sweethearts explores one letter each month, examining it from three sides:
📚 The truth. Each month, Snail Mail Sweethearts subscribers get to vote on our next deep dive into history’s more memorable letters, like spicy love letters and ancient Babylonian mail.
✒️The fiction. After I dish the facts, I’ll spin it into a tall tale, revisiting the historical mail from a fresh angle in a short story that fits on a postcard - and is based on prompts subscribers vote for.
🎨 The art. Paid subscribers receive original artwork exploring the themes annually or quarterly. These originals are made for you and mailed from the South of France to your physical mailbox anywhere in the world.
Chow down on history’s juiciest missives
Only the facts and nothing but the facts surrounding history’s finest mail - all served up in the gravy of for gossip. I’ll tell it to you as if the person was a mutual friend: like if we both knew Abe Lincoln from a house party and I’m filling you in on how he puked in the bathroom trashcan with the door wide open right after you left.
From Emily Dickinson’s passionate love letters to that time an Egyptian queen's marriage proposal almost started a war, history’s inbox is full of surprises.
Read handwritten fiction
Once a month, following a prompt picked by paid subscribers and patrons, I write microfiction directly related to the month’s historical letter. The stories are transcribed onto a postcard, then scanned and emailed to every subscriber, like this:
Stories from the POV of Emily Bronte’s candelabra or the Mesopotamian equivalent of a mailman are fair game for these monthly short stories that follow your unique prompts. Using the same love for writing that lands my stories in places like The New Orleans Review and Bourbon Penn, I write fiction on a time crunch that breathes new life into well-loved history.
But my favorite part? Subscribers joining in on the fun, writing their own spin on the prompt and posting it in the comments or mailing it to me directly. I hope you will too.
Receive snail mail art from France
Each post is free, meaning scans of handwritten and hand-drawn art and writing heading your way. Finally, the analog world’s weaseled its way into your inbox!
But paid subscribers get even more. In addition to choosing our monthly theme and prompts, paid subscribers receive original annual or quarterly artwork mailed to them from the South of France! Think embroidery, watercolors, charcoal drawings, poems, and more, unique to every participant.
Really love art? Subscribers can upgrade their experience on Patreon to receive monthly postcards and regular fine art prints.
Annually, I edit all the microfiction from the prior year for a zine, available in digital and print, that subscribers receive in each spring. Don’t miss it!
History’s a weird place.
Let’s celebrate it at the intersection of fact and story.
