The Misenchanted Newsletter #166: Well, That's Done!

Okay, folks, three topics this time.

First, some housekeeping regarding Substack, and I hope this will be the last time I need to explain what I’m doing, because I think I finally know what I’m doing.

Substack offers three subscription levels, and here’s what I’m doing for each:

Free subscribers get this newsletter — first in email, but you can also see it on my Substack page for five weeks after it’s posted. After five weeks, each post goes behind a paywall and is only accessible for paid subscribers. The newsletter is very roughly monthly; it’s been a bit more frequent than that since it moved to Substack with #162, but that’s because I had more stuff to talk about than usual. I expect it to slow down again now.

For $5/month or $50/year, paid subscribers get the newsletter, but also get access to the Archives, which include everything I’ve posted here more than five weeks ago, as well as twenty years or so of posts copied from my blogs, and a lot of stuff copied from my Patreon. At random intervals I add a new post for paid subscribers; so far this has always been another item from my Patreon, usually a short story — the original transfer from Patreon did not include stories, maps, or illustrations.

There’s a theoretical third level, founding subscribers, at $150/year, but so far no one’s signed up for it so I haven’t had to decide what it gets that paid subscribers don’t. I’m thinking it will include some ebooks and stuff.

Everybody can make comments. I haven’t gotten any so far, so there may be a switch I need to turn somewhere.

It should be noted that the blog posts in the Archives are also still there on my blog, and the Patreon stuff is still on my not-very-active Patreon, where the minimum monthly rate is less than a paid subscription here.

Okay, second topic: FoxAcre Press stopped publishing seven of my books (as well as most of the rest of their list) and reverted the rights. I have now re-issued all those books, though some were… adjusted, slightly. I didn’t rewrite anything, but I did tweak a few things. Five of the seven are unchanged, just repackaged — Nightside City, Realms of Light, Shining Steel, Crosstime Traffic, and Celestial Debris.

Among the Powers was FoxAcre’s title for the novel originally published by Avon under the title Denner's Wreck, and I couldn’t decide which title I liked better, so I published it under both. These are the same novel, with the same cover art; there is no reason to buy both.

Finally, the history of FoxAcre’s The Final Folly of Captain Dancy & Other Pseudohistorical Fantasies is complicated and frankly a bit silly, and it was a really thin book, so I replaced it with The Final Folly of Captain Dancy & Other Tall Tales, expanding it from four stories to ten. Of the six additions, four are reprints and two are brand-new, never published before.

So there. That’s done. No more republishing old stuff for the foreseeable future.

Third and final topic: Writing news.

The official release date for Charming Sharra is November 1. That’s later than I’d hoped and expected, but I’m sure we’ll all manage.

I haven’t been working very consistently on anything else lately, what with all the publishing work and the normal household distractions. I started writing The Ruins of Mars, the third Carlisle Hsing novel, but I realized I was taking the wrong approach and that I need to think it out in more detail. I should be getting back to actual writing in the next couple of days, though.

And that’s it. Thanks for your interest!

— Lawrence