I hope you’re all okay with that but it’s time to write my next novel. So, starting with this post, you’ll be hearing from me, not weekly, but every other week. And finally, now that my ninth novel, A New Season, is essentially finished and formatted-and soon heading to the printers-(update coming in my next post), I really must turn my focus to my tenth novel (update coming on that at some point, too). Secondly, to be honest, it’s hard to come up with brand new content week in and week out. (I remember the pressure-and ultimate futility-of keeping up when I once had a New Yorker subscription.) It’s a lot to expect that you’ll read each one. Why? Well, firstly, I’ve worried that I may be testing your patience and your time by dropping a post in your inbox every week. But as we start our second year together, I’ve decided, for a few reasons, to revert to my original plan of posting bi-weekly. So in the last year, I’ve written and published here, just shy of 60 posts.

But in an effort to get out of the gate quickly and create enough content to attract subscribers, I ended up posting every week-even more often in the very early days. I started off suggesting that I’d post every two weeks. I’m grateful for all the support you’ve shown me through your subscriptions and your kind comments. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.By the time this post hits your inbox, I will have been on Substack for a year.

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