Well, this is embarassing.
For some of you – a great number of you, in fact – this will be the first emailed notification from me. Some of you subscribed recently; others, a… little longer ago.
I end nearly every post with a version of ‘like and subscribe’, and quite a few of you actually did do that. But here’s the thing: a lot of you never heard from me again. And I blame WordPress entirely for this travesty!
As it turns out, somewhere along the way this particular platform chose to alter the settings to me having to manually accept and input new subscribers. I was unaware of this, obviously. But I was recently perusing my stats and wondering why there were fewer of you than I thought there should be. And then a few days ago someone I know very well signed on, but didn’t show up in my subscription list. So, I did a little digging, and to my dismay, discovered what the problem was.
All of this to say, I have figured out the system (this part of it, at least) and will be much more dilligent moving forward. You know… now that I know it’s required of me. So, thank you to all who have subscribed. Welcome, to those of you who are now officially on the list as of a few minutes ago. I don’t have a lot of actual news, notes or updates, mostly because I added a post with all of that just prior to this one. You can find that here, if you’re so inclined. This is more or less just a test to see if a bunch of people are suddenly discovering me in their inboxes. If you do, whether you’re new to the list or have been receiving them all along, it would be great if you could leave a comment or something on this post, just to let me know my efforts have actually succeeded.
Oh, and I should mention that some of the names I added were very likely marketing spam or other such accounts that probably aren’t interested in what I have going on at any given time. For those who came here looking to sell me stuff and don’t want unwanted emails in your inobx, I guess the best I can tell you is now we’re even.
That’s all for today. As always, thanks for dropping by. I hope you enjoyed your stay, and if you want to receive news and updates delivered right to your inbox, you can sign up at my contact page here. The irony of adding this to the end of this particular post is not lost on me! Until next time,
Stay safe, talk soon.
-JP
Joe Powers, Author 