#37: 100 Subscribers!
Friendship, love, voting time
Hi, friends -
We did it! We’re at 100 subscribers! I’m so proud of this adventure. Thank you to everyone who’s stuck around since the first post, who’s cheered Snail Mail Sweethearts on through its face lift, and all you fresh-faced beauties who joined recently and made it happen :)
This newsletter means a lot to me, and I hope it’ll mean a lot to you, too as we continue building a community of like-minded mail weirdos/history nerds/flash fiction fiends.
Today’s newsletter’s short and sweet. I’ll…
💌 teach you tender newbies how the whole voting thing works,
💌 highlight cool ways to join the ~club~,
💌 and share the poll to vote on the required action and word for our monthly micro fiction, choose May’s historical mail theme, AND suggest future mail topics!
How it works
For those of you who’ve never been to voting time, welcome!
Each month, paid subscribers and my precious Patreon crew vote on the upcoming microfiction’s required word and action, plus the following month’s historical mail topic.
I will then write a story short enough to fit on a postcard using your prompts and based on this month’s historical mail. Voting closes on the 27th, giving me just three days to draft some fiction for ya and post it on the 30th!
Once my story’s posted, it’s your turn. Write your own microfiction according to the prompts, then post it in the comments, email it to me, or tie it to a pigeon’s ankle and hope for the best. Reading y’all’s stories is honestly my favorite part. Seriously. Just thinking about some of the gems you’ve sent me has me grinning like a chump right now.
Paid subscribers also get annual/quarterly/monthly postcard art snail mailed to them, my annual zine of polished microfiction, and - coming soon - dibs on buying original artwork before I release it to anyone else.
You can upgrade your subscription…
join my Patreon for as low as $2 a month to vote (or choose a higher tier for quarterly/monthly postcard art)…
or refer three folks to my newsletter for a free month of voting!
You have til the 27th, so upgrade while ya can :)
Aaaaand that’s enough of the spiel. Let’s get to the good stuff!
This month’s story is gonna be all about…
#36: The man who helped the devil fake his own death
When Rhody and I fell in love, we started out as friends. I started to think maybe I’d fallen when I (a vegetarian by then) drove across town to help them make a beef pot pie. Reader, I took a bite of it and everything. And at least some of my crushing came from our shared interest in ouija boards and ghosties.
As always, once voting closes, I’ll have just 72 hours to write a story based on your prompts and linked to this month’s topic.
For everyone who’s already on the voting tier…
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