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January 19, 2024. Essays. I posted my first essay, Why My Friends Move to California. I’d been thinking about something and felt like I needed to write it down. And you know how it goes—once you’ve written something, you want to share it. My mistake was thinking I should put it on a separate blog, to keep the formats clean, when instead I can force you—all 35 of you—to see it, by putting it here. I hope that mixing stories and essays isn’t too annoying. I turned comments on for essays (but kept them off for stories). I’d love to know what you think.
January 29, 2023. I’m changing the name. I’m changing the name of the newsletter. I love the current name, Ghosts in Glass Houses, so I’m sad to do this. But a little bit of Googling—the Googling I should have done when I started the newsletter—shows that Ghosts in Glass Houses is the name of an existing book by another author. That’s too close for comfort. I chose the current name because I thought it was a nice visual metaphor for what we are: we’re ghosts, consciousnesses, stuck behind eyes and faces that aren’t too hard to see through. I’ll pick a new name that sticks with this idea and isn’t all used up already. I appreciate y’all’s patience.
January 8, 2023. To my first seven readers. You are my first seven readers. To me, you are as important as the Seven Wonders of the World, or the seven hills of Rome, or the seven colors of the rainbow. Thank you for taking the time and the interest to subscribe to this Substack. It was scarier than I thought it would be to finally start sharing my fiction—but having you here makes me feel proud, and lucky, and excited. Thank you. I really mean that. Here’s how I’ve set things up: Each story has its own primary story post, which is updated over time to include all published chapters. Week by week, I’ll publish each new chapter as a separate New Chapter post, where it will stay until it is replaced by the next chapter. Previous chapters are added to the primary story post as they are replaced. I can’t wait to publish for you, to hear from you, and—for those of you who are also authors here—to read and enjoy your work as well. I’m grateful for you.
