A Very Quick Note

As most folks hanging around Substack know, the site exists to help support the work of writers through paid subscriptions, often interspersing free material along the way.

Rather than making Silence Where A Story Would Have Been a single, very long article topping off at around 5000 words, article, I decided to break it into two more easily digestible chunks. Pulling this together was a ton of work, so I initially thought this might be a good option to begin the paid subscription thing (it’s eight bucks).

Then — because I’m one of those people who has constant second thoughts what makes the most sense and what’s the most ethical approach — I decided to make the first half free, and set aside part two for paid subscribers.

Then — see above on the topic of second thoughts — I decided to split the difference and make part two exclusively available to paid subscribers for four days then make it free. This way the folks who would like to support this operation can get an early look without having to wait, and everyone else will get it a few days later.

We’ll probably continue this model in subsequent posts, though there will be a few things from time to time that will remain accessible only to subscribers.

(One example: I’m thinking of making all of my scripts — not just for Babylon 5 but everything I’ve ever written for TV — available to subscribers to download. Buying scripts online or at a convention costs 20-40 bucks a throw and upwards from there. And some what I would be posting simply isn’t available anywhere else. So if I put up two scripts per month at a subscriber price of eight bucks, then that’s…um…less.

(Math not Zathras skill.)

In any event, I wanted to give everyone the straight skinny so no one was caught off guard by the subscriber aspect of part two.

Onward.

JMS