What convinced me to make the move? Getting newsletters from writers I like directly into my inbox.

And listening to this Writers off the Page podcast, where authors Emily Gale and Natasha Lester talk about it from a business and career point of view, and realising it makes sense.

Substack also has an option for paid subscribers. I’m not doing that yet, but it’s good to know it’s there.

Here’s my first post on a talk I went to with uber-novelist Maggie O’Farrell.