State of the Stack

Updates from Scoot

Dear Subscribers,

Headline up front: I am pausing billing for paid subscriptions through the end of the year. You have all been very generously supporting me but life has been much more demanding recently in ways that are mutually exclusive with my writing time. While I fully expect to return to my usual writing cadence, you deserve a billing reprieve for more than just my recent lapse in publishing. So January 1, I will plan to re-activate subscriptions. If any of you would like to unsubscribe, would like a refund, or otherwise would like to take this as an opportunity to reallocate your funds—absolutely no problem. Please reach out to me via email with “REFUND” in the subject line and I will work with you on refunding your subscription, no questions asked.

Here’s what this means for each of my paid publications:

Gibberish – All posts are stopping. The Serial “Before The Maps Are Final” will resume after August, and with it Sandbox Earth Season will finally come to a close. I fully intend to pick up Blackpage Season, but to be honest there’s only one story on my mind to write in the fall and it’s my submission for the Midnight Vault. So I am not going to over promise here, it may be lean times through December, but my intention as of right now is to get back on the horse after this crazy busy August. FFF will not pick up again in August, but if you keep writing stories when we pick up again on the other side of this, I will highlight everyone.

The Peasant Times-Dispatch – The monthly Churchyard post and the monthly Edition will not happen for August. I am hopeful that I can resume in September, but it depends on how I weather this unusual patch of time. Again, I don’t want to over-promise and under-deliver.

Plain Spoken – I was supposed to post an episode on July 20^th, that hasn’t happened. The August episode won’t happen either. Luckily I am still early into this thing, but this month I can’t commit to it.

I’ll continue to be on Notes, but I can’t justify continuing without pausing billing. Thank you all for your patience, your understanding, and your generosity through this strange time. I promise our regularly scheduled programming will resume as soon as practicable.

God bless you all!

- Scoot