Brandon Sanderson & Phillis Wheatley

Old ways to do new things

I started this newsletter a few months ago, when I was reading about the publication history of Phillis Wheatley, and wanted to make an argument for subscription publishing—which was a norm for most of the 17th and 18th centuries—as a precursor to Kickstarter (or Kickstarter as a throwback to publishing’s early days), and, actually, a very good model, o…