A short note - I'm switching to unpaid

I always laugh at that saying that goes something like “adult life is basically saying: oh it will get quieter from next week again and again until you die”. I spent the first two months of this year travelling around on tour and was pretty sure that it would get quiet from the point that I arrived home. Well duh. It’s actually got busier. And guaranteeing a piece a week on here has become increasingly difficult, which makes me feel guilty about the people who have paid subscriptions and whether they are getting their money’s worth.

I did think about donating everything I get from here to charity, but it doesn’t alter the fact that people are still paying for a service which I can’t currently guarantee.

So I’ve been thinking about it and I’ve decided to turn all subscriptions to unpaid for the foreseeable. I’ve started the process of working my way through the list of paid subscribers to make sure they have a pro-rated refund, but please excuse me if this takes me a few days. It’s a fiddly old process and I have to keep putting money into the Stripe system to make sure I’ve covered the refunds.

I will still be posting here, but no longer with the pressure of keeping to a timetable and offering value for money while I do it. Writing here was never about earning, to be honest. It was to maintain a relationship with readers and discuss the thing I love most - writing fiction. I hope this decision will only make people happy.

Thank you again for reading. I really love this platform and I’m not going anywhere.

PS apologies to the readers who I can see assumed the refund was a mistake and have attempted to resubscribe! I should probably have posted before I started…

Jojo x