Welcome to my Substack

The kind of things I'll be sending you, and a thank you.

Thanks so much for subscribing to Coasting, the newsletter version. It’s always a bit scary putting something new out into the world and presuming anybody will want to read it, and then very nice when somebody does.

Clearly, newsletters are nothing new and I’m about 100 years late to the game here. The main reason for setting this one up is that I keep having ideas that are too long for Instagram and thinking ‘I should write a blog about that!’ then remembering that blogging is apparently dead (or even if it isn’t, that mine has been gathering dust for over three years now). Then I think ‘I’ll write a book about it!’, which sadly isn’t practical for every single thought that enters my head.

So here we are instead! I wanted to send a quick hello and thank you before launching in, but the kind of things you can expect to receive in your inbox on a semi-regular basis are…

• General news and updates on new writing, events, anything interesting that’s going on.

• (Hopefully!) useful recommendation…