The Experiment
Last December, I decided to try my hand at offering a subscription. This one targeted readers, and perhaps I should have given it a bit more time to marinate, since my next books didn’t come out until mid-February and March of this year. But I learned an important lesson: while I had the time in that moment to dedicate 3-4 days to four newsletters, it wasn’t something I could sustain in the long run.
Here’s how I ran it:
- week 1 ~ Free Fantasy Chaos News
- week 2 ~ Snippets & Spoilers with a few extras thrown in
- week 3 ~ Lore Library, deeper world-building, and future ideas with images
- week 4 ~ Dragon Hoard, complete world-building with Campfire Writing link
Now, this was on top of everything else I was doing, writing Dagger, social media, blog posts, etc. I was already starting to fall behind. And then the family emergency.
It was time to reevaluate my time and energy. I’ve been home for a couple of weeks now and have already made some changes and generated some new ideas.
The New Plan
- Refund everyone who signed up.
- Remove The Isel Archives from the shop.
- Reformat my free newsletter and move some items to the blog.
To earn some extra cash for editing, besides attending more in-person author signing events, I have a few ideas I’m floating around. Mostly in the form of a single product. How will I create this product? I’m not sure yet, but a downloadable PDF (with links to my Campfire) of my world-building sounds interesting… if it doesn’t take up too much time, that is.
Only time will tell… and on that note, I’ll see you in the next one!
~Devon
psst. if you want to be the first to know of any changes, sign up for my free Fantasy Chaos Newsletter here 👉🏽 https://subscribepage.io/NPzelh
