the friday letter will be out 2morrow/some housekeeping
a slight delay & some details about expiring comps!
Hi there! I’m all wrapped in a blanket and am about four-fifths of the way finished with today’s letter, but I just need a little extra time to refine and edit, maybe shave off a sentence or two. Plus, I have a headache and don’t want to compete with the Drag Race finale that starts in like ten minutes, which I know probably 90% of the subscribers to this newsletter will be watching. The letter is almost done, though, so it’ll be in your inbox sometime tomorrow!
In the meantime, some housekeeping: some of you may have gotten emails about your comped subscriptions expiring soon. I usually update these every 90 days, but right now I’ve made the decision to make the newsletter entirely free for a while. By simply letting your comp run out, you should get moved to the regular free plan automatically (you already signed up for it via email). Monday letters have been unlocked for the last month and will stay unlocked for now! For someone who is still building an audience in this industry, it’s currently more feasible to have both weekly letters unlocked to attract potential readers, and I’ve found that Monday letters and Friday letters both do this very well in different ways. If you’re currently a paid subscriber, I just want to say that I can’t thank you enough for supporting me. If you got your subscription with the interest of having exclusive, paid subscriber-only content, I would 100% understand if you wished to move onto the free plan, no questions asked, baby! But, if you’d like to continue supporting this newsletter and myself every month, I truly thank you and I promise to keep striving to really make it worth your while. The last 11 months have been filled with endless strife, most of it pertaining to a woefully unfruitful job search and the various effects it has had on my life, and I cannot tell you how much having your support has meant to me. It goes a long, long way. I have not been lucky this year, but I have found luck in you, kind reader. 💖
If you have any questions about your subscription, please email or DM me! I’ll see you tomorrow with the Friday/Saturday letter. And also, as a reminder, you can follow Top Shelf, Low Brow on Instagram right here! In the meantime here are a few things that have been making me laugh: