097 - Invite Your Friends to Read 100 Posts of Summer

Referral rewards from an author on his knees.

One post per day is a lot. It’s a lot for me to write, and it’s a lot for you read. These posts take up more than their fair share of your inbox. I know that. But you’ve been a real trooper and look us now, only 3 more posts left of this 100 Posts of Summer. We made it, basically.

So it’s time to look towards the future. What happens after the 100th post? Well, the posts will continue, they’ll just be more like once a week. Picture a normal newsletter from a normal guy… it’ll be that but extraordinary and unfathomable.

Also, 100 Posts of Summer will have a new name, something cool like Shy Radicals or something sexy like Fondling Thoughts. I haven’t figured that out yet but whatever it’s called and whatever it becomes, if you’ve enjoyed 100 Posts of Summer, you will love what’s coming next.

In all seriousness, sharing my work with you these past 97 days has been a dream. Each time you like, share, comment on, or contact me about a post, it means the world to me. As anonymous as this all feels sometimes, I do it to connect with people. I write to be read.

I also write to be shared, and when the prose alone doesn’t motivate you to do so, know that I’m also willing to bribe you. Check out these new referral-based incentives available to all my subscribers.

How to reap:

1. Share 100 Posts of Summer. When you use the referral link below, or the “Share” button on any post, you will personally get credit for any new subscribers. Simply send the link in a text, email, or share it on social media with friends, family, frenemies, Europeans, or the insane.

2. Earn benefits. As more friends (Europeans, etc) use your referral link to subscribe (free or paid), you’ll receive increasingly lucrative rewards.

• Get a 3 month paid subscription comp for 5 referrals.

• Get a custom post in your honor for 10 referrals (I will write you anything you want, anyway I want).

• We’re hitting the town / lower manhattan for 25 referrals (I don’t care how much you hate fun, you’re having it… WE’RE having it).

• At 100 referrals (don’t care if it’s 100 bots from Taiwan or 100 Rhodes Scholars), you and I are getting custom friendship t-shirts made and spending the day together at the zoo (this is an insanely good deal).
  

Also, if you need help convincing people to subscribe, remember to mention:

• It’s free!

• It doesn’t have to be free! You can support the arts!

• It’s funny!

• There’s a backlog of about 100 posts for when you get hooked!

• It’s about to have a badass new name like Writing on the Rocks or Cashmere Straitjacket!
  

This is a real referral service offered through Substack that I have customized to best entice my readership, whom I love. Thank you again for continuing to support my writing and I can’t wait to go to the zoo with you.

To learn more, check out Substack’s FAQ.