Wilderness is not Disappearing

The newsletter, I mean

Hi Wilderness Friends,

I know it’s been radio silence here, and I’m sorry.

I’ve decided to pause paid subscriptions until January 1 2023.

As many of you may know, I have been working on a book about wildland fire and my time as a hotshot for several years. This process has been slow, stressful, and sometimes grueling. The publication date is now tentatively set to Spring 2025, and after two hectic revisions last year, both of them with intensely tight turnaround times, I am putting everything I have into one last big revision over the next four months. I’m also in the second year of my PhD, working on coursework. It’s a lot.

I also have another newsletter, Entropical Paradise. I’d like to somehow imagine a way of bringing these two newsletters together, but I can’t do much imagining outside of my revisions and course work.

I will be posting here— but I wanted to take the pressure off of myself by eliminating the sense of obligation that comes with having paying subscribers. Hopefully that will mean more posts from me. One of the reasons I haven’t posted is because I want to write really good, incisive essays. That’s just not something I have the time or energy for right now, but that doesn’t mean I can’t share my book research and thoughts with you, right?

So, I hope you’ll stay here. And I am grateful to all who are paying subscribers. Wilderness isn’t going anywhere, I promise.

For those of you who have subscribed within the past six months and not received many newsletters, please feel free to respond to this and let me know when you subscribed. I’ll put your name down and when paying subscriptions are unpaused I will extend yours. I am also happy to give any paying subscribers another year (or any number of months) free. That said, please know that your paid subscription has allowed me to work on my book, which is going to be, I think, quite good. I hope so, after all the work I’ve put into it!

Thanks for being here. I appreciate you.