{"id":27789,"date":"2024-12-28T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=27789"},"modified":"2024-12-28T11:55:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T16:55:35","slug":"a-novel-in-progress-elsewhere-23kpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/a-novel-in-progress-elsewhere-23kpc\/","title":{"rendered":"A Novel-in-Progress Elsewhere: ’23kpc’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[Image: a product of the Bing AI image-generation tool. This is the image which heads the so-called “reader’s guide” to my current work in progress<\/a>; it’s a mashup of the science fiction and mystery genres, inspired by the 1930s <\/em>Thin Man films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Longtime RAMH readers may or may not know of my shadow “Running After My Hat” presence (such as it is) over on the Substack platform<\/a>. (It hasn’t been a secret, really; I added a link to it, some time ago, to the section of the right sidebar headed “RAMH Elsewhere…”) But I wanted explicitly to let you know about it because of an offer I’ve made to followers there, which I now extend to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the deal: as of this moment, everything on my Substack is free to read. But on January 1, a paywall will go up around a portion of it: future installments of a novel-in-progress called 23kpc<\/em>. All the stuff regarding that novel through Chapter 7 — background and actual contents — will remain freely, publicly accessible. (Note that what’s actually available to read now, without a paid subscription, goes through Chapter 23; after 1\/1\/2025, all of the novel from Chapter 8 on<\/em> will go behind the paywall.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, anyone who’s a free subscriber to the Substack as of January 1 will automatically receive, gratis, a three-month “paid” subscription to allow them to continue reading 23kpc<\/em>… after which they, too, will need to switch to an actual “paid subscriber” plan. You can read the details of the plans, and some other information, in this post<\/a> from last night.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, to you loyal visitors to my site here, I offer the same deal: if you subscribe to my Substack by January 1, I’ll give you a three-month “paid” subscription to see if you’d like to continue reading there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note:<\/strong> you don’t need a Substack account to read publicly available posts there — mine or anyone else’s. But in order to follow\/subscribe to specific Substacks, yeah, you’ve got to create an account. That’s also free, by default; you pay for only those publications you want to pay for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of these days I may explain here what moved me to try out Substack in the first place, and what I think of it so far. This isn’t that day. In the meantime, if you find yourself interested enough in 23kpc<\/em> (or, for that matter, whatever else I’m posting over there), I hope you’ll join me there, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you sincerely, as always, for supporting what I do here and\/or<\/em> on Substack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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