Query to my Paid Subscribers: Poll

What kind of paid content would you like to receive from me?

When I began this Substack over a year ago on my son Joshua’s birthday, I really had no idea what to expect when I loaded my old email list into this new app. It’s been a while since I’ve published a new novel: my obligations with family life and the energy expended in teaching classes 3-5 days a week had cut significantly into my free time, as could be expected. Yet I realized had a little more margin now that my youngest children were all in school, and I thought it would be good to push forward the nonfiction project no publisher wanted, The Culture Recovery Journals. So I began.

You all pleasantly surprised and encouraged me by signing up so quickly for this venture, and more of you have joined me along the way. I appreciate you each so much. So as I look over my offerings for paid subscribers, I wanted to find out what YOU would like as future thank-you gifts. I’ve offered a smattering of things on Fun Fridays, mostly small like poetry and photo essays but some of them larger like early access to the Shadow of the Bear audio drama, but I’d like to hear from you about what gifts you’d like best that I can provide, given my parameters of time, work on other projects, etc.