Which New Substacks Should We Launch Next?
Following the success of Goddess of the Desert we're going to start developing our upcoming imprints with their own newsletters and experimenting further with this new medium.
I’m very happy with how well my wonderful fiancee
has succeeded with the launch of where see leads as Editor-in-Chief. It will be exciting to see how over the course of the year what begins as a Substack will expand into book projects and then launch under a new imprint.Given that we’re pursuing book publishing in multiple genres and styles we have chosen to organize our various titles under different imprints. We’ll have a genre book imprint putting out science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, mysteries, and horror titles. We’ll have a literary book imprint to release novels which are not genre books but serious, compelling literary works. This will also include our poetry book releases. And then we’ll publish nonfiction titles - memoirs, essay collections, cultural critiques, religious or political explorations, Zionist-related titles - under the God of the Desert name.
Each of these Substacks would feature a variety of content related to the books we plan to release under them. The genre Substack would feature short genre fiction, essay-length critiques and analyses of other media in these genres, and pop culture discussion blog posts. The literary Substack would include book excerpts, poetry, and a more high-brow culture analysis focus. The new Marvel movie would be reviewed at the genre substack, the new hot arthouse movie gets reviewed under the literary substack. I have some ideas for what these Substacks might be named but first need to brainstorm more with the authors whose books we’ll be promoting with them.
And the current God of the Desert substack would continue much of its nonfiction approach in exploring current events, provoking with autobiographical essays, and Zionist advocacy. It would also act as the hub linking together the various imprint substacks and highlighting their new content.
We’re also interested in exploring utilizing Substack in other capacities. In particular right now there are three potential subjects I’m considering:
Helping each of our future authors develop their own solo Substack under their own names to begin further growing their following directly. I’d also launch a solo Substack.
Creating a Substack solely dedicated to our podcasts which will expand to interviewing our authors and other interesting people around the world.
I’m considering creating a Substack whose sole purpose would be to aggregate links to stories related to Zionism, antisemitism, and the Middle East as well as some other subjects which interest me and may interest our readers too. I’d also collect links from Substacks exploring these and other subjects of interest. This would start out as likely 2 emails a week, one collecting the links of the week, and the second Substack posts of note.
Which of these projects should we do first? As in: which most interests you?
You are also welcome to help us out as we expand. Please email us if you’d like to write with us and develop book projects for us to publish. As you can see, we’re interested in all sorts of subjects.
